Round Island Riverside Park
Vero Beach 2.5 milesTrails, boardwalks, and a boat launch on Round Island provide excellent opportunities to explore coastal habitats and spot manatees in the Indian River Lagoon.
Round Lake Park
Oviedo 1.0 milesWith woodlands and wetlands edging its namesake lake, Round Lake Park has a delightful stroll for birding adjoining its playgrounds and picnic pavilions.
Royal Palm Beach Pines
West Palm Beach 3.6 milesEscape from the puzzle of subdivisions and urban strips defining densely populated Palm Beach County with a walk across this 772 acre oasis in Royal Palm Beach.
Royal Springs
Branford 0.5 milesStaring into Royal Springs, it feels like looking into a bottomless pit. Steep and broad, it drops 42 feet into shimmering waters of turquoise and royal blue.
Rye Preserve
Bradenton 2.6 milesOne of Mantee County's oldest preserves, Rye Preserve offers seasonal camping along the Upper Manatee River along with short nature trails.
Rye Preserve Yellow Trail
Bradenton 1.8 milesExplore the pioneer settlement of Rye and the flow of Rye Creek towards the Manatee River in the open spaces of Rye Preserve.
Saarinen Preserve
Gainesville 1.2 milesAt Saarinen Preserve near Newberry, a series of color-coded loops wander across mixed pine and hardwood hammock communities teeming with wildlife.
Saddle Creek Park
Lakeland 2.5 milesEast of downtown Lakeland, this urban county park makes use of old mine pits as lakes, with a campground and a 2.5 mile birding trail providing occasional panoramas.
Safety Harbor Waterfront Park
Safety Harbor 1.0 milesLoop a community green space in front of a historic hotel on Tampa Bay using a coastal boardwalk through a mangrove forest and the eastern end of the Ream Wilson Trail.
Sal Taylor Creek Preserve
Jacksonville 4.1 milesAlong a pine forested greenway, this preserve offers hikers numerous easy-to-hike trails, including a main trail that leads to a blackwater creek.
Salinas Park
With a boardwalk over a beautiful coastal scrub to a beach on the sparkling waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Salinas Park provides a picnic grove in a pine forest.
Salt Lake Hiking Trail
Mims 4.1 milesCircling the central pine flatwoods of the uplands between the lakes of Salt Lake WMA, the 4.1-mile Salt Lake Hiking Trail is a great birding destination.