Big Tree Park
Longwood 0.3 milesWhile the iconic Senator is no more, Big Tree Park continues to fascinate visitors with its enormous cypress trees, including Lady Liberty. The park provides access to the Cross Seminole Trail.
Changes at Spring Hammock Preserve
When we revisited Spring Hammock Preserve in December 2017 for research for our third edition of 50 Hikes in Central Florida, we discovered radical changes to the trail system that needed explanation. Here's what's up at one of our favorite preserves.
Charles Lee Sabal Point Sanctuary
Longwood 3.4 milesThreading through a wilderness floodplain where the Little Wekiva and Wekiva Rivers meet, this 3.4 mile round-trip hike hidden in a subdivision offers excellent birding near Orlando.
Cross Seminole County
JK finishes up his last Florida Trail miles in Seminole County as he continues to fill in the blanks on a section hike of the statewide Florida Trail.
Cross Seminole Trail
Oviedo to Orlando and Sanford 27.6 milesA 27.6 mile paved bike path connecting to the Orange and Volusia county lines, the Cross Seminole Trail provides access to a massive network of Central Florida bike trails.
Cross Seminole Trail North
Oviedo Longwood Lake Mary Sanford 21.0 milesConnected to a vast network of bike paths, this 21 mile corridor between Oviedo and Sanford hosts portions of the Florida Trail and the Florida Coast to Coast Trail.
Florida Coast to Coast Trail
Titusville to St. Petersburg 191.4 milesWith a corridor spanning more than 220 miles across nine Florida counties, the Florida Coast to Coast Trail (C2C) is Central Florida's long distance bike path.
Florida Trail, Orlando
Kenansville to Paisley 150.5 milesBetween the prairies of Osceola County and the Ocala National Forest, this 150 mile section of the Florida Trail slips through suburbs of the Orlando metro.
Hiking the Cross Seminole Trail
A hike along the Cross Seminole Trail - which the Florida Trail follows - through Oviedo and Winter Springs means an introduction to suburbia in the Orlando metro.
Return to Big Tree Park
While The Senator is a charred stump, thanks to an arsonist, the grandeur of its surroundings at Big Tree Park - including a 2,000-year-old cypress - has reopened to the public.
Riding Spring-to-Spring and the Seminole-Wekiva Trail
Pile on the mileage with two bike trails within easy reach of each other - the Spring-to-Spring in Volusia and the Seminole-Wekiva in Lake Mary and Longwood
Seminole Wekiva Trail South
John bikes the next segment west on the Coast to Coast Connector, the Seminole Wekiva Trail. This well-established bike path connects Seminole County communities.