Florida Hikes

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

Creek with cypress reflections

Brooker Creek

Hiking, biking, paddling, and other outdoor recreation and public lands along the Brooker Creek, which drains into Lake Tarpon.

Brooker Creek Friends Trail

Tarpon Springs   1.9 miles

Let the sounds of suburbia melt away just a few miles east of downtown Tarpon Springs on a 1.9 mile hiking-only loop through pine flatwoods in the Brooker Creek watershed.

Brooker Creek Headwaters

Tarpon Springs   3.9 miles

With nearly 4 miles of footpaths adjoining the paved Upper Tampa Bay Trail, Brooker Creek Headwaters explores the rise of a waterway that nourishes Lake Tarpon.

Brooker Creek Preserve

Tarpon Springs   4.3 miles

The largest nature preserve in Pinellas County, Brooker Creek Preserve protects a mosaic of vanishing habitats while interpreting their value along 6.2 miles of trails.

John Chesnut Sr. Park

Palm Harbor   2.7 miles

Weaving through floodplain forests and cypress swamps, the boardwalks and trails of John Chesnut Sr. Park add a place to pause for wildlife along a wild shoreline on Lake Tarpon.