Florida Hikes

Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides

St Johns River at Welaka

North Florida

Hiking, biking, camping, paddling and other outdoor recreation throughout North Florida, including along the Suwannee River and the St. Johns River between Palatka and Jacksonville.

INTERACTIVE MAP

Peters Point Park

Fernandina Beach   0.3 miles

At the south end of Fernandina Beach, a park with a small swath of Atlantic Ocean beachfront includes a trailhead for the East Coast Greenway.

Poe Springs Park

High Springs   1.5 miles

At Poe Springs Park, the Poe Springs Nature Trail carries you across a landscape shaped by water acting on limestone, where surface rock is obvious and studded with fossils.

Prairie Creek Boardwalk

Gainesville   1.4 miles

Under the dense canopy of a hardwood forest, the Prairie Creek Boardwalk provides a unique perspective on the creek that links Paynes Prairie and Newnans Lake.

Prairie Creek Preserve

Gainesville   7.5 miles

In the deep shade of the floodplain of Prairie Creek near Gainesville, Prairie Creek Preserve is a beauty spot provided to the public by the Alachua Conservation Trust.

Prices Scrub State Park

McIntosh   2.7 miles

Hidden amid the horse farms of northern Marion County, Price's Scrub State Park protects an island of biodiversity within the North Marion Greenway.

Princess Place Preserve

Explore wild spaces and cultivated grounds along eight different trails at Princess Place Preserve, an 1880s homestead at Cherokee Grove on Pellicer Creek.

Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park

Within city limits yet truly wild, Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park protects more than 4,000 acres along the edges of enormous estuaries draining into the St. Johns River.

Ravine Gardens Hiking Trails

Palatka   2.1 miles

A steeply sloped ravine. Tunnels of azaleas. Bubbling springs. Two swaying suspension bridges. That's what makes the loop at Ravine Gardens State Park so much fun.

Reddie Point Preserve

Jacksonville   1.5 miles

Sand beaches and salt marshes fringe a wild peninsula along the St. Johns River where trails meander more than a mile to reach a mature hardwood hammock.

Ribault Monument

On a high bluff above the St. Johns River, a memorial pays tribute to the French expedition led by Jean Ribault that claimed Florida for France in 1562, three years before St. Augustine was founded.

Rice Creek Nine Mile Tract

Palatka   3.5 miles

Meander across shady landscapes on this 3.5 mile hike combining a short loop bordering a marshy lake with a linear trail tracing a steep sandhill ridge above the Rice Creek basin.