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Orange sands Flagler Beach

Flagler Beach

Along Scenic A1A on one of the prettiest stretches of oceanfront on the Atlantic Coast, the seaside community of Flagler Beach anchors an array of natural lands

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Betty Steflik Memorial Preserve

Steflik Preserve Flagler Beach

Flagler Beach      ( 29.477457, -81.135595 )      1.8 miles

Betty Steflik Memorial Preserve protects more than 200 acres of mangrove marsh, mud flats, and coastal uplands right on the edge of downtown Flagler Beach

Bulow Creek State Park

Fairchild Oak

Ormond Beach      ( 29.387667,-81.132183 )      

Walk among the ancients in Bulow Hammock, starting with the imposing Fairchild Oak, one of Florida’s largest live oak trees

Bulow Plantation Ruins State Park

Bulow Plantation Ruins museum exhibit

Flagler Beach      ( 29.434253,-81.138069 )      

History and natural beauty meet under a dense oak canopy at the ruins of one of Florida’s oldest sugar mills

Bulow Woods Loop

swampy trail Bulow Woods

Bulow Creek State Park  |  Flagler Beach
( 29.433628,-81.140157 )      5.2 miles

Stretching 5.2 miles through an primordial forest of sluggish, fern-lined waterways, ancient live oaks, magnolias, and cabbage palms, the Bulow Woods Loop is one of North Florida’s most scenic hikes

Bulow Woods Trail

Wet trail in lush Florida palm forest

Bulow Creek State Park  |  Flagler Beach
( 29.434900, -81.137983 )      6.8 miles

A linear hike between state park day use areas at Bulow Plantation Ruins and Bulow Creek, the Bulow Woods Trail parallels the flow of a freshwater creek near the sea

Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area

Gamble Rogers Memorial State Park

Flagler Beach      ( 29.438962,-81.108542 )      

Formerly Flagler Beach State Park, Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area stretches from the orange sand beaches of the Atlantic Ocean to the windswept oak hammocks along the Intracoastal Waterway.

Graham Swamp Conservation Area

The largest of the ponds at Graham Swamp Preserve

Palm Coast      ( 29.537617, -81.206067 )      1.0 miles

Protecting more than 3,000 acres – 2,700 acres of which are covered in swamps – Graham Swamp Preserve offers hikers a glimpse of the dense floodplain where Bulow Creek rises.

Mild wander at Wadsworth Park

Wadsworth Park

June 11, 2010    Sandra Friend

Here’s a gentle walk that’s great for birding – a boardwalk at Wadsworth Park, just west of the Intracoastal bridge on the north side of SR 100 west of Flagler Beach.

North Peninsula State Park

North Peninsula State Park

Flagler Beach      ( 29.41072,-81.094962 )      

Neatly accessed via “The Loop,” a scenic drive that extends north from Ormond Beach, North Peninsula State Park has two tantalizing miles of oceanfront along a palm-rimmed line of dunes.

Steflik Preserve a birder’s delight

Steflik Preserve

August 11, 2011    Sandra Friend

Imagine passing by a preserve dozens of times over the years and never seeing it. That’s what I’d done here in Flagler Beach, until I finally discovered Betty Steflik Memorial Preserve thanks to a heads-up from a local innkeeper.

The Over 80 Across Florida Hike

September 30, 2017    Sandra Friend

In 2007, a group of senior hikers made Florida hiking history by successfully completing a backpacking trip from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico via backroads, the Florida Trail, and the Withlacoochee Bay Trail. All were over age 80.

Wadsworth Park

Wadsworth Park

Flagler Beach      ( 29.480050, -81.142867 )      0.2 miles

Along a cove on a tidal creek that flows out to the Intracoastal Waterway, Wadsworth Park near Flagler Beach provides a gentle introduction to the marshes.

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