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The long one is the Florida National Scenic Trail, about 1,500 miles from Big Cypress National Preserve in the south to Gulf Islands National Seashore at the western end of the Panhandle.
It was designated in 1983, and it is one of eleven National Scenic Trails in the country and one of three that lie entirely within one state. Shorter trails include the CREW Marsh Trails in Collier County, the Turkey Creek Nature Trail in Okaloosa County, the Green Mountain trailhead and overlook in Lake County and the Santos trailhead in Marion County, and the state parks have their own.
Collier County. CREW stands for the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed, and the CREW Land and Water Trust looks after it. The point of the whole holding is water: this is watershed ground, and protecting it is a water decision as much as a wildlife one.
Open the guide →Okaloosa County. The Turkey Creek Nature Trail in Niceville is a boardwalk about a mile long that follows Turkey Creek through the woods, with platforms where people swim and put in canoes, kayaks and tubes to float the creek.
Open the guide →Lake County. It opened in October 2014 and was joined to the Lake Apopka Loop Trail the following year. From the tower the view runs out over Lake Apopka, the fourth largest lake in Florida, and on a clear day the Orlando skyline stands up on the far side of it.
Open the guide →Marion County. About twenty miles of singletrack run through the Santos and Vortex sections here, connecting to more than eighty further miles along the Greenway, and the Ocala Mountain Bike Association built and still maintains the network.
Open the guide →The paved rail-trails, built on old railroad lines, are the long flat rides.
Read the answer →Florida has one of the larger state park systems in the country and a dozen or so carry a full day on their own.
Read the answer →The paved rail-trails, built on old railroad lines, are the long flat rides.
A few, and one is a real surprise in a flat state.
Florida has one of the larger state park systems in the country and a dozen or so carry a full day on their own.
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