St.Francis Trail Ocala NF

Birding / Hiking / Adventuring Roadtrip Info

ROUGH DRAFT

Aug 2018

What's It Like
Kind of Birds
Wildlife
Ammenities
Time Needs
Dear Ranger
Experience

Typical view [?]

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Typical View (11)

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GRADES: Click each for info, = Note*
How Big	Not Rated
Importance	Not Rated
Revisit?	B
Birding	D *
Wildlife	A
Summer Heat	A
Terrain	C *
Fun Hike	B
Maintained	C
Mosquitos	F
Biting Files	B *
Ticks	C *

NOTE: Dense forest = hard to see things

NOTE: Flat but WET

NOTE: None but assume they are around

NOTE: Not much grass you could walk into

LOCATION: Accuracy: Read me

On Big Map: Click map (or on google maps). Address: 45960 River Forest Blvd, DeLand, FL, Volusia, USA, 32720

5 CLOSEST (Map)

Miles	Location
5.5	Blue Spring SP
5.8	Deland Main Street
6.9	Lake Woodruff NWR
8.5	De Leon Springs SP
9.4	Seminole SF Casia Trail

OFFICIAL INFO:

Forest Service

This is the southeast edge of the Ocala National Forest. It's a very dense forest of cabbage palms, palmettos, and live oaks for the most part. It tends to be wet and can flood to a degree. Pretty unique place.

2) Kinds of Birds

We heard some but it's so dense we didn't really see flocks of titmice flying through or anything like that.

3) Wildlife

Has to have some since it's part of Ocala National Forest but we saw none: the trail was VERY wet so not much in the way of tracks.

4) Amenities

Gas stations etc are nearby.

5) Dear Ranger

There are a lot of panties in your parking lot. Not judging - just saying.

6) Time Requirements

I believe it's an 8 mile loop so to do it all assume more than half a day. But it's pleasant immediately if you want to do a short walk.

Experience

We arrived late in the day. It was pretty easy to find and it seemed like it was 2 hours closer to sunset as soon as we started the trail from all the shade. So the things that made it stand out was that it was very enclosed and shaded, that it was very wet, that it had a lot of cabbage palms, but also it just had some plants along the trail I can't recall seeing before. I don't know all plants but you get a feel for when you're around something different.

The trail must be wet most of the time because people had put down things like you see people stand on in industrial kitchens at the low spots. So thick plastic sheets with holes so you don't slip. There may be ruins at the end of the trail but we didn't make it too far - it just became too flooded to continue.

Definitely a fun trail and probably one of the more convenient ways into a piece of the Ocala National Forest.

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