50 Hikes in South Florida

Walk a beach where fossil shark’s teeth wash ashore, climb snow-colored hills of sand in the coastal scrub, or brave your way through the sawgrass prairies of the Everglades…that’s the fun of hiking in South Florida! Offering 50 very different excursions into South Florida’s wilds, this guidebook covers my top picks south from Bradenton to Key West, including gems like the urban oasis of Fern Forest Nature Center in Broward County and the little-known miles and miles of backcountry trails in the National Key Deer Refuge in the Florida Keys.

Softcover, 366 pages.

CONTENTS

I. Gulf Coast

1 Emerson Point Preserve
2 Oscar Scherer State Park
3 Myakka River State Park
4 Caspersen Beach Park
5 Cayo Costa State Park
6 Alligator Creek Preserve
7 Caloosahatchee Regional Park
8 Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park
9 Calusa Nature Center
10 Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve
11 Estero Scrub Preserve
12 Lovers Key State Park
13 J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge
14 Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation

II. Big Cypress

15 Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
16 Sabal Palm Hiking Trail
17 Collier-Seminole State Park
18 Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park
19 Fire Prairie Trail

III. Central

20 Paynes Creek Historic State Park
21 Highlands Hammock State Park
22 Lake June-in-Winter State Park
23 Platt Branch Mitigation Park

IV. Atlantic Coast

24 Jack Island Preserve State Park
25.Hawks Bluff
26 Seabranch Preserve State Park
27 Jonathan Dickinson State Park
28 Blowing Rocks Preserve
29 Jupiter Ridge Natural Area
30 John D. MacArthur Beach State Park
31 Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
32 Fern Forest Nature Center
33 Secret Woods Nature Center
34 Greynolds Park

V. The Everglades

35 Corbett Wildlife Management Area
36 Royal Palm Beach Pines Natural Area
37 Arthur M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
38 Tree Tops Park and Pine Island Ridge
39 Main Park Road Nature Trails
40 Old Ingraham Highway
41 Pinelands
42 Snake Bight / Rowdy Bend Loop
43 Bear Lake Trail
44 Bayshore Loop

VI.The Florida Keys

45 Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park
46 Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park
47 Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park
48 Long Key State Park
49 Bahia Honda State Park
50 National Key Deer Refuge