Five-Star Trails Orlando

Five Star Trails Orlando presents the best hikes within an hour of Orlando, Florida’s epicenter of spectacular hiking trails and a launch pad to outdoor adventure. Discover hidden gems like Trimble Park, set between two lakes with breezy nature trails and a continual parade of wading birds. Get perspective in the middle of a vast palmetto prairie at Wiregrass Prairie Preserve. Take the tots on a gentle walk at Green Spring Spark to a shimmering spring where an ancient civilization once camped. Or grab your daypack and challenge one of the toughest loop hikes in Central Florida at Triple N Ranch in the floodplain of Crabgrass Creek.

Covering 37 hikes across a compact five-county region, all within an hour’s drive of downtown Orlando and the theme parks, Five Star Trails Orlando gives you a reason to get outdoors now. The guide offers a mix of gentle, family-friendly nature trails, easy day hikes, and more strenuous immersions through vast wild spaces, as well as popular portions of the statewide Florida Trail, our National Scenic Trail in Florida. Vivid hike descriptions provide insight to the history, flora, and fauna along the trails.

Paperback, 250 pages. Kindle edition available.
Download GPS tracks for all hikes in the book at FloridaHikes.com

CONTENTS

Northeast

1 Black Hammock Wilderness Area
2 Florida Trail: Little Big Econ State Forest
3 Green Spring Park
4 Hickory Bluff Preserve
5 Lake Harney Wilderness Area
6 Lake Jesup Conservation Area: East Tract
7 Lake Monroe Conservation Area: Kratzert Tract
8 Lyonia Preserve
9 Spring Hammock Preserve
10 Wiregrass Prairie Preserve

East

11 Econlockhatchee Sandhills Conservation Area
12 Econ River Wilderness Area
13 Florida Trail: Bronson State Forest
14 Florida Trail: Mills Creek Woodlands
15 Lake Mills Park
16 Orlando Wetlands Park
17 Pine Lily Preserve
18 Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area

South

19 Lake Runnymeade Conservation Area
20 Shingle Creek Regional Park: Historic Babb Landing
21 Shingle Creek Regional Park: Historic Steffee Homestead
22 Taylor Creek Loop
23 Triple N Ranch Wildlife Management Area

West

24 Bill Frederick Park at Turkey Lake
25 Lake Louisa State Park
26 Oakland Nature Preserve
27 Tibet-Butler Preserve

Northwest

28 Blue Spring State Park: Blue Spring Trail
29 Blue Spring State Park: Pine Island Trail
30 Florida Trail: Seminole State Forest
31 Gemini Springs Park
32 Kelly Park
33 Lake Lotus Park
34 Seminole State Forest: Lower Wekiva Loop
35 St. Francis Trail
36 Trimble Park
37 Wekiwa Springs Hiking Trail