Hiking South Florida and the Keys: A Guide To 39 Great Walking And Hiking Adventures

by M. Timothy O'Keefe

Overview

Hiking South Florida and the Keys features thirty-nine of the finest trails the region has to offer, from wet cypress swamps to dry pinewood forests. Four sections—Short Family Hikes, Day and Overnight Hikes, Long Haulers, and Walking the Florida Keys—comprise this user-friendly guide. M. Timothy O’Keefe shares his top hikes in twenty-three prime areas, including Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Jonathan Dickenson State Park, Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, and National Key Deer Refuge. Each hike includes all the information you need to make the most of exploring South Florida and the Keys on foot.
 

Look inside to find:

•  Hikes suited to every ability
•  Directions to the trailheads
•  Comprehensive trail descriptions, maps, and elevation profiles
•  Mile-by-mile directional cues
•  Difficulty ratings, average hiking times, best hiking seasons, and elevation gain/loss for every featured
   hike
•  Area-specific tips on safety, hiking ethics, plants and animals, preserving the environment, and more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762743551
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/24/2009
Series:	Regional Hiking Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	608,636
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

M. Timothy O'Keefe, head of the Journalism division at the University of Central Florida, has published 13 books, over 1,000 magazine articles and more than 5,000 photographs. His work has appeared in several National Geographic books, National Geographic Traveler, Time-Life Books, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Scientific American, Travel & Leisure, Caribbean Travel & Life, Reader's Digest Magazine, and Reader's Digest Books.

O'Keefe's writing and photography have won more than 50 regional and national awards. The Florida Outdoor Writer's Association (FOWA) named his Seasonal Guide to the Natural Year: Florida with Georgia and Alabama Coasts "Best Book" of 1997. The following year, FOWA named The Spicy Camp Cookbook (Menasha Ridge Press) as the "Best Book" of 1998.

Tampa Bay Magazine has called him "Florida's premier wildlife photographer and writer."

Table of Contents

South Florida and The Keys

Short Family Walks

Myakka River State Park

1. Canopy and Nature Trails

Highlands Hammock State Park

2. Nature Trails

Six Mile Cypress Slough

3. Boardwalk Trail

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

4. Boardwalk Trail

Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge

5. Duncan Memorial Trail

Fakahatchee Strand State

6. Boardwalk Trail

Everglades National Park

7. Anhinga Trail

8. Gumbo Limbo Trail

9. Pine Land Trail

10. Pa-Hay-Okee Boardwalk

11. Mahogany Hammock Trail

12. West Lake Mangrove Trail

13. Eco Pond

14. Bayshore Loop Trail

15. Bobcat Hammock Boardwalk

16. Otter Cave Trail

Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

17. Cypress Swamp Boardwalk

Corbett Wildlife Management Area

18. Hungryland Slough Boardwalk

Day and Overnight Hikes

'scar Shearer State Park 11.6 miles

19. Yellow Trail

20. Blue Trail

21. Red Trail

22. Green Trail

Cayo Costa State Park

23. Inland and Beach Trails

Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge

24. Indigo Trail

25. Shell Mound Trail

26. Bailey Tract

Collier-Seminole State Park

27. Loop Trail

Everglades National Pak

28. Pinelands Trail

29. Snake Bight/Rowdy Bend Loop

30. Bear Lake Trail

Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

31. Marsh and Impoundment Trails

Fort Pierce Inlet State Park

32. Jack Island Reserve Buttonwood Trail

Long Haulers

Myakka River State Park

33. Myakka River Backpacking Trail

Big Cypress National Preserve

34. Tamiami Trail to Alligator Alley

DuPuis Management Area/Reserve

35. Loop Trails
J. W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area

36. Florida Trail Segment

Lake Okeechobee Circular Hike

37. Okeechobee Northeast

38. Okeechobee Southeast

39. Okeechobee Southwest

40. Okeechobee Northwest

Jonathan Dickinson State Park

41. Loop Trails

Kissimmee River

42. Kissimmee River National Scenic Trail

Walking The Keys

Why the Keys Exist

Overseas Heritage Multi-Use Trail

43. Walk the Length of the Keys (partially)

Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park

44. Hammock Walk

John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park

45. Mangrove and Tamarind Trails

Windley Key Geologic Site

46. Sunset and Hammock Trails

Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park

47. Nature Trail

Long Key State Park

48. Golden Orb and Layton Trails

Curry Hammock State Park

49. Nature Trail

Marathon Bridge Walk

50. Old 7 Mile Bridge to Pigeon Key

Bahia Honda State Park

51. Silver Palm Trail and Old Seven Mile Bridge

National Key Deer Refuge

52. Blue Hole and Nature Trails