Once part of the vast IBM complex in Boca Raton where the personal computer was born, Pondhawk Natural Area protects 79 acres of scrub habitats and wetlands, including a relict pond apple slough with … [Read more...]
Boardwalks
Hiking trails that feature a boardwalk or series of boardwalks as an integral part of the hiking experience.
Apoxee Wilderness Trail
In the wet prairies and tropical hammocks of Apoxee Park, the first urban wilderness area in Palm Beach County, you'll walk over and through the water supply of West Palm Beach. A fascinating 4.7-mile … [Read more...]
Okeeheelee Nature Trail
A network of wheelchair-accessible paved paths and hardpacked limestone natural walkways wind through 90 acres of pine flatwoods, oak hammocks, and dense palm hammocks behind the Okeeheelee Nature … [Read more...]
Tall Cypress Natural Area
Botanical diversity abounds in the 66-acre Tall Cypress Natural Area. Along the boardwalks, you'll wander through a cypress slough that is a wonderland of ferns, with a profusion of giant sword ferns, … [Read more...]
Daggerwing Nature Center
Behind Daggerwing Nature Center in busy South County Regional Park, a boardwalk leads you into habitats that have all but been erased from the surrounding crowd of suburbia in west Boca Raton. The … [Read more...]
Doris Davis Foreman Wilderness Preserve
A pretty patch of tropical hammock hides amid the bustle of suburbia in Parkland, a Broward County community, within the 20-acre Doris Davis Foreman Wilderness Preserve. The half-mile loop, mostly … [Read more...]
Grassy Waters Preserve – Eagle Trail
Forming a loop around Gator Lake in Grassy Waters Preserve, the Eagle Trail tunnels through a tropical hammock to provide overlooks across the wet prairies of the Loxahatchee Slough and across the … [Read more...]
Grassy Waters Preserve – Hog Hammock Trail
Offering another perspective on the vast Loxahatchee Slough, the Hog Hammock Trail at Grassy Waters Preserve, leads you into a tropical hammock and a dark, dense, fern-filled cabbage palm hammock … [Read more...]
Pine Jog Environmental Education Center – Wetland Hammock Trail
An outdoor classroom for countless young people in the Palm Beach County school system, Pine Jog Pine Jog Environmental Center is also open to the public to explore the deeply forested 135-acre urban … [Read more...]
Canaveral National Seashore – Seminole Rest Trail
At the site of a former plantation and important archaeological site on the Indian River Lagoon, Seminole Rest provides excellent interpretation of this coastal outpost across the shimmering waters … [Read more...]
