Outdoor sights in Florida
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Hickey’s Creek Mitigation Park
Near Caloosahatchee Regional Park, bobcats, water snakes and otters play in over 800 acres of protected forest and freshwater wetlands connected by extensive surface and boardwalk trails.
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Otter Cave
At the park entrance, the easy Otter Cave walk makes a boardwalk-ed loop through a thick copse of tropical hardwoods before emptying you out, disoriented, right back into the Shark Valley parking lot.
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Demen's Landing
South of the pier, Demen's Landing, with picnic facilities, is a great waterfront park in which to while away a lunchtime. The park, by the way, was named for a Russian-born railroad developer who brought passengers to the area in the late 1880s.
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Picnicking
South of the pier, Demen's Landing, with picnic facilities, is a great waterfront park in which to while away a lunchtime. The park, by the way, was named for a Russian-born railroad developer who brought passengers to the area in the late 1880s.
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West Lake Trail
Rte 9336 cuts through the soft heart of the park, past long fields of marsh prairie, white, skeletal forests of bald cypress and dark clumps of mahogany hammock. There are plenty of trails to detour down. The West Lake Trail runs through the largest protected mangrove forest in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Spanish River Park
This massive and leafy park, between Ocean Blvd and the Intracoastal Waterway, is a fine 95 acres of waterfront property, blessed with a lagoon, a vast grassy area, picnic tables, a 40ft observation tower and well-shaded nature trails that are clearly loved by the locals who you'll see jogging, fast-walking and strolling along here. Through three tunnels under Ocean Blvd, you can walk to the wild beach, with nothing but sand dunes and surfers to distract you.
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Tamiami Trail
Calle Ocho happens to be the eastern end of the Tamiami Trail, which cuts through the Everglades to the Gulf of Mexico. So go west, young traveler, along US 41, a few dozen miles and several different worlds away from the city where the heat is on.
Past Hialeah, Miami fades like a trail of diminishing Starbucks until…whoosh…it's all huddled forest and open fields and a big canal off to the side (evidence of US 41's diversion of the Glades' all-important sheet flow).
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Loop Rd
A little further up you can detour down Loop Rd , which offers four interesting sites. One: gambling-enriched Miccosukee (this is still their reservation), whose houses all seem to have shiny new pick-up trucks parked out front. Two: great pull-offs for viewing flooded forests, where egrets that look like pterodactyls perch in the trees. Three: scary, isolated Florida types who make it very clear trespassers will be sorry.
And four: the short, pleasantly jungly Tree Snail Hammock Nature Trail. Be warned that the Loop is a rough, unpaved road.
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