Florida Hikes

Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides

Lake Myrtle Park Auburndale

Auburndale

Formerly a center of orange groves, Auburndale lies just outside the Lakeland beltway, the Polk Parkway, and is bustling with new subdivisions

Auburndale TECO Trail

Auburndale   6.7 miles

Connecting Auburndale with Polk City and the Van Fleet Trail, this linear bike path is a greenway through a growing community along the Polk Parkway east of Lakeland

Circle B Bar Reserve

Lakeland   3.5 miles

For fabulous birding and more alligators than you can count, roam the marshy edge of Lake Hancock on miles of causeways through Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland

Saddle Creek Park Nature Trail

Lakeland   2.4 miles

An urban park with camping east of downtown Lakeland, Saddle Creek Park has a 2.4 mile round-trip birding trail and a connector to Tenoroc.

Van Fleet Trail

Lakeland   29.2 miles

Cruise up a wooded corridor through the Green Swamp along 29.2 miles of paved trail on an old rail corridor optimized for a long ride through the heart of rural Central Florida