National Wildlife Week is March 12-16, let's celebrate with our extra hour by looking for wildlife in Split Oak Forest!
Celebrate the arrival of Spring at 4:15pm sunset at 7:36 pm
Celebrate the International Day of Forests with a hike in your favorite Central Florida Forest!
Sunset 7:42pm - FULL MOON rise 8:04pm
We're leaving from the South entrance early in the morning to find all sorts of amazing July wildflowers: meadowbeauties, grass pinks, butterfly peas, butterfly orchids, tarflower, Florida milkweed, partridge pea, candyroots, and milkworts. Known plants (we'll probably see these): Calopogon multiflorus, many-flowered grass pink Sabatia grandiflora, largeflower rose gentian Eryngium yuccifolium, rattlesnake master Rhexia mariana, […]
3.5 mile hike includes cypress dome, lake loop, Bonnet Pond overlook, THE split oak, lake one
4.20 mile hike to 'Scrub Jay Island' and the area around it
A hike for Sherry, who's not in town too often.
Led by Nathalie Van Turnhout, this two mile hike will feature lake 2 and the area just to the south of it. Sunset is at 6:52, so nice 'golden-hour' light for photographers!