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Ponce De Leon Park

A city park with dramatic sunsets over a beach on Charlotte Harbor, Ponce De Leon Park is a delight for birders and paddlers, too.

Cape Haze Pioneer Trail Park

The northern terminus of the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail provides a place to bike and hike and a bit of regional history.

Ann & Chuck Dever Regional Park

A popular recreation destination for local residents, Ann & Chuck Dever Regional Park also encompasses significant uplands along Oyster Creek.

Tippecanoe II Mitigation Area

Set aside for the conservation of gopher tortoise and Florida scrub-jay habitat in Port Charlotte, Tippecanoe II sits just south of Tippecanoe Environmental Park.

Oyster Creek Environmental Park

Along the northern shore of a mangrove-lined creek, Oyster Creek Environmental Park offers gentle hiking trails with interpretive stops beneath old-growth slash pines.

Gasparilla Island State Park

Protecting a string of beaches along the Gulf shore of Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island, this far-flung outpost of Lee County has one of Florida's most delightful lighthouse museums.

Cape Haze Pioneer Trail

A legacy of Florida's early phosphate mining, the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail now provides a protected greenway through a very residential corner of Charlotte County.

Myakka River State Park

With tall waving grasses, saw palmetto, and the sound of birds, Myakka River State Park is Florida's Big Sky country, blanketing more than 37,000 acres east of Sarasota.

Trout Creek Park

Under a tight-knit canopy of live oaks, Trout Creek Park provides a pleasant place for a family picnic and a nature walk along the floodplain of the Hillsborough River.

Myakka River Canopy Walk

At Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, the Canopy Walk provides a sky-high view of the Myakka River basin as well as an intimate immersion in the live oak canopy in a beautiful hammock of oaks and palms.

Myakka Hiking Trail

For immersion in the vast central prairies of the Florida peninsula, the 39-mile Myakka Hiking Trail is a serious backpacking destination in South Florida near Sarasota.