Along the Creek

Along Tiger Creek

The trail plows through mounds of muscadine grape vines, tall pokeberry, and seasonally wet spots. There are lots of roots underfoot, and tall saw palmetto and cinnamon ferns as its winds along the creek. After 0.6 mile, you can duck under young cabbage palms for a look at a bend in the creek. The trail continues through the hammock and reaches a curve in the creek, a real beauty spot at 0.7 mile. Where you reach a fern-filled floodplain, the footpath rises back up onto a levee and departs Creek, quickly rising into the dry open scrub where you might see tarflowers in bloom. Blazes point the way.

At the next T intersection with a double blaze, turn left and follow the jeep road. A blazed post soon confirms your route. Watch for gopher tortoises nibbling on gopher apple, and five-lined skinks skittering across the sand. There is another double blaze at a fork in the trail. Turn right, following the jeep path through scrubby flatwoods. The trail reaches a grassy area after 0.9 miles. Turn left at the double blaze left. Up ahead you see the double blaze leading back to the parking area.