Crooked Lake WEA
Fort Meade 5.0 milesNear the western slope of the Lake Wales Ridge, wildflowers proliferate across sandhill restoration and clusters of rare cutthroat grass grow trailside on a 5 mile hike.
Fort Meade Recreation Area
Fort Meade 1.0 milesAnchoring two linear trails along the Peace River, this wayside park off US 98 in Fort Meade has been a destination for river access for decades.
Hardee Lakes County Park
Bowling Green 1.2 milesA collection of former phosphate pits adjoining the floodplain of Paynes Creek provide anglers and campers with a destination west of the Peace River basin.
Mosaic Peace River Park
Fort Meade milesOn the site of a former phosphate mine, worn footpaths top a windswept hilltop above the cypress swamps of the Peace River where a once-fabulous boardwalk to the river is in disrepair.
Paynes Creek Flatwoods Trail
Bowling Green 1.6 milesOn higher ground behind the museum, the Flatwoods and Mary Jane Trails traverse uplands with scrub and broad prairies at the western end of Paynes Creek Historic State Park.
Paynes Creek Historic State Park
Bowling Green 4.6 milesStraddling the former treaty boundary of Seminole lands, this interpretive site along the Peace River features a network of trails tied together by a swinging footbridge.
Paynes Creek Historic Trail
Bowling Green 1.9 milesLinking the Peace River Trail and the Flatwoods Trail, a 1.9 mile hike on the Historic Trail provides interpretation of physical sites linked to the Seminole Wars.
Paynes Creek Peace River Trail
Bowling Green 1.1 milesDiscover a scenic shoreline along the Peace River where Paynes Creek empties into the winding, narrow river's tannic flow along this 1.1 mile loop.
Peace River
Rising from marshes in the Green Swamp basin in Lakeland, the Peace River winds through fossil-rich Bone Valley west of the Lake Wales Ridge, reaching the Gulf of Mexico at Charlotte Harbor.
Peace River Hammock
Fort Meade 1.3 milesWalk softly through the immersive Peace River floodplain beneath enormous trees to a scenic bluff along the river where paddlers can come ashore.
Peace River Park Greenway
Fort Meade 2.5 milesWith river views near its ends, a graded 2.5 mile linear path in Fort Meade follows a slender strip of public land parallel to the east shore of the Peace River.