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Big Cypress Swamp

Swamp Walks

Get wet in the wilds of Florida with these lengthy wades on trails through swamps

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Apoxee Wilderness Trail

Apoxee Wilderness

Grassy Waters Preserve  |  West Palm Beach
( 26.727542,-80.151119 )      4.7 miles

In the wet prairies and tropical hammocks of Apoxee Wilderness, an urban wilderness area, you’ll walk through the water supply of West Palm Beach on a 4.7-mile day hike through the southernmost part of Grassy Waters Preserve

Brooker Creek Preserve

Tarpon Springs      ( 28.1319, -82.6566 )      4.5 miles

The largest nature preserve in Pinellas County, Brooker Creek Preserve protects a mosaic of vanishing habitats while interpreting their value along more than 4 miles of trails.

Collier-Seminole Hiking Trail

Collier Seminole Hiking Trail

Collier-Seminole State Park  |  Naples
( 25.990033, -81.578300 )      6.0 miles

A wet and wild 6-mile loop into the watery wilderness of the Big Cypress Swamp, the Collier-Seminole Hiking Trail provides a challenging wade into beauty

CREW Flint Pen Strand

Red blaze post amid pines

Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed  |  Estero
( 26.333780, -81.690867 )      13.4 miles

Just four miles east of Interstate 75, get your feet wet in one corner of the vast the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed on the trails of Flint Pen Strand.

CREW Marsh Trails

Blaze post on prairie trail

Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed  |  Fort Myers
( 26.491833, -81.533974 )      3.1 miles

At CREW Marsh, a network of well-marked paths crisscrosses the northwestern tip of the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed, providing loops of up to 3.1 miles along a vast marsh.

DuPuis Loop Trail

Well worn path through a wet pine flatwoods landscape

DuPuis WMA  |  Indiantown
( 27.01059, -80.550892 )      16.5 miles

Made up of four stacked loops, the DuPuis Loop Trail lets you tailor your length of hike from 5.3 to 16.5 miles.

Estero Scrub Preserve State Park

Estero Scrub Preserve

Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve  |  Estero
( 26.442232, -81.834292 )      4.8 miles

A tough hike when it’s wet, Estero Scrub Preserve State Park has several loops through wet flatwoods and tidal marshes along the rim of Estero Bay

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

Fakahatchee Strand State Park

Copeland      ( 25.950713,-81.360579 )      

It’s the Amazon of North America, home of the ghost orchid. Protecting more than 85,000 acres, Fakahatchee Strand is Florida’s largest state preserve and most certainly our wildest.

Fern Forest Nature Center

Fern Forest ferns

Coconut Creek      ( 26.229667, -80.186817 )      2.2 miles

A bounty of ferns awaits at Fern Forest Nature Center, where more than two miles of trails introduce you to a slice of Florida’s past, a tropical forest surrounding the original floodplain of Cypress Creek

Florida Trail, Big Cypress South

Big Cypress Swamp

Florida Trail, Big Cypress  |  Big Cypress National Preserve
( 25.857105,-81.032913 )      30.3 miles

30.3 miles. Traversing a vast wilderness in the wet wilds of Big Cypress National Preserve, the southernmost segment of the Florida Trail is the toughest backpacking trip in Florida

Florida Trail, Bradwell Bay

Bradwell Bay (Mary McKinley)

Florida Trail, Apalachicola  |  Apalachicola National Forest
( 30.1687, -84.5008 )      12.3 miles

12.3 miles. You’re guaranteed to get wet on Florida’s roughest, wildest day hike. Situated south of Tallahassee, the Bradwell Bay Wilderness is one of the most majestic and wild places in Northwest Florida.

Florida Trail, Jewel to Vilas

Florida Trail Jewel to Vilas

Florida Trail, Apalachicola  |  Apalachicola National Forest
( 30.196779, -84.727692 )      14.3 miles

14.3 miles. Delving deep into the swampy heart of the Apalachicola National Forest, this section spans some of the gnarliest titi and gum swamps you’ll see outside of Bradwell Bay.

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