CREW Bird Rookery Swamp
Naples 4.5 milesRich with wildlife, CREW Bird Rookery Swamp near Naples provides up to 12 miles of hiking/biking in Big Cypress habitats on tramways through a primordial swamp
CREW Flint Pen Strand
Estero 13.4 milesJust 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 Flint Pen Strand Big Loop
Estero 7.7 milesPlunge into a wild landscape of verdant pine forests and mysterious cypress swamps on a series of connected loops stretching from Flint Pen Strand to the Bird Rookery Swamp Trail.
CREW Flint Pen Strand Red Trail
Estero 1.5 milesThe westernmost of the loops at Flint Pen Strand, the 1.5 mile Red Trail is an easy introduction to the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed.
CREW Marsh Trails
Fort Myers 3.1 milesAt 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.
Crossing Big Cypress
It’s Florida’s roughest, wettest, weirdest backpacking trip, best done with friends. Sandra tackled it as the final piece of her 1,110-mile section hike of the Florida Trail, end-to-end.
Crossing the Big Cypress Swamp
John's hike across Big Cypress to lay down a GPS track for The Florida Trail Guide (and later, FarOut) was his first experience at backpacking with wet feet.
Discovering the Florida Trail
A photographic journey across Florida, Discovering the Florida Trail is our new small format coffee table book with both panoramas and small wonders along the Florida National Scenic Trail. Hardcover, 192 pages.
Dr. Robert H Gore III Preserve
Naples 1.9 milesIn a lesser-known corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, Dr. Robert H Gore III Preserve immerses hikers in truly wild South Florida landscapes on its nature trails.
Estero
Halfway between Fort Myers and Naples, Estero grew up around the Estero River, which flows into Estero Bay.
Everglades City
A launch point for adventures into the Ten Thousand Islands and the Big Cypress Swamp, Everglades City began as a trading post and sportsmen's getaway
Fakahatchee East Main Trail
Everglades City 4.8 milesFollow a former logging tramway deep into the wilds of Fakahatchee Strand for an immersion in its botanical beauty and a look into a deep sinkhole pond.