Florida Hikes
Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
Historic Putnam County community along the western shore of Crescent Lake.
A stop along the Bartram Trail, the Beecher Run Nature Trail at Welaka National Fish Hatchery provides a walk beneath ancient pines along the edge of the hatchery ponds, which are fed by historic Beecher Spring.
In the lush watershed of Crescent Lake, a winding loop trail crosses verdant pine flatwoods edged by floodplain swamps south of Crescent City.
A well-marked system of loop trails extends across sandhill habitats to scenic views of a secluded sinkhole lake at Dunns Creek State Park.
Starting near a scenic bend on Dunns Creek, a network of wide trails explores diverse natural landscapes from expansive pinelands to sandy scrub forests.
Notable for its habitat diversity, Dunns Creek State Park protects a vast landscape along the south shore of its namesake, a major tributary of the St. Johns River.
Secluded and special, Haw Creek Preserve at Russell Landing nestles up along the shores of Haw Creek facing Haw Creek Preserve State Park.
A low-key state preserve protecting lush swamp forest habitats, Haw Creek Preserve State Park can only be explored by water.
Named for Philadelphia resident and royal botanist to King George III, John Bartram, the John's Landing Trail leads to his landing site documented in 1765.
One of Florida's largest mounds, Mount Royal was first documented by William Bartram in 1765, when it was an important central feature of a large village along the St. Johns River.
At Mud Spring, mud isn't what you'll see in the gently rounded basin that cradles an underwater garden, but a glassy natural pool.
With hiking in scrubby flatwoods and sandhills above forested slopes draining to Murphy Creek, as well as on Murphy Island in the St. Johns River, this water management preserve provides two places to explore.
Walk beneath an unbroken hardwood canopy evocative of Old Florida on the well-maintained pathways of rural Shell Bluff Park near Crescent Lake.
