Florida Hikes

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

White sand Gulf of Mexico beach with sea oats foreground

Marco Island

Trails and explorations on and around Marco Island, on the Gulf of Mexico south of Naples between Rookery Bay and the Ten Thousand Islands.

Collier-Seminole Prairie Hammock Trail

Naples   3.5 miles

A parade of habitats awaits in a lesser-visited corner of Collier-Seminole State Park on this multiuse loop utilizing portions of the Old Marco Road built in the early 1900s.

Collier-Seminole State Park

Protecting the largest natural hammock of royal palms in the United States, Collier-Seminole State Park opened in 1947 south of Naples along the Tamiami Trail.

Otter Mound Preserve

Marco Island   0.1 miles

On the site of historic Caxambas on Marco Island, Otter Mound Preserve protects a tropical hammock and the remnants of a homestead with unique whelk shell terraces.

Rookery Bay NERR

Protecting vast mangrove forests and coastal habitats between Naples and Ten Thousand Islands NWR, Rookery Bay NERR encompasses a mind-boggling 110,000 acres.