Florida Hikes

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

Myakka River Upper Lake

Myakka River

Meandering 72 miles from marshes in Manatee County to empty into Charlotte Harbor at Port Charlotte, the Myakka River is designated a Florida Wild and Scenic River, largely untouched along its length.

Lower Myakka Paddling Map

Venice

Named after the city in Italy when the post office was established in 1888, Venice is one of Florida’s first planned cities, designed by noted architect John Nolan in the 1920s as an Italian renaissance village

Wingate Creek State Park

Bradenton   4.2 miles

Named after a blackwater stream at the headwaters of the Myakka River, Wingate Creek State Park showcases natural scrub communities home to the rare and endangered Florida scrub-jay.