Florida Hikes

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

Sunrise over foggy marshes

Moore Haven

Founded in 1915, Moore Haven was a major commercial center during the dredging of wetlands around the lake and the Caloosahatchee River.

Knobby Knee Trail

Palmdale   1.7 miles

Accessible walkways wind across a floodplain of stately cypress trees to an overlook along scenic Fisheating Creek, with footpaths leading even further along the waterway.

Lake Okeechobee

Covering 730 square miles, Lake Okeechobee is the liquid heart of South Florida.

Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail

Lake Okeechobee   109 miles

An overlay on the Florida Trail around Lake Okeechobee, the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail provides a mostly paved cycling and walking route around the second largest lake entirely within the borders of the United States.

Ortona Mounds

Ortona   0.8 miles

While less than a mile long, the Ortona Mounds Trail in the ranchlands of Glades County takes you back to a time more than 3,000 years ago.

Platt Branch WEA

Palmdale   4.6 miles

At Platt Branch, Florida scrub-jays perch along trails through scrub, sandhills, and the southernmost longleaf pine forests where observation platforms overlook grassy prairie ponds.