Cedar Key Museum State Park

Birding / Hiking / Adventuring Roadtrip Info

ROUGH DRAFT

Andrew Thoreson
Mar 2019

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

Typical view [?]

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

NOTE: C+

NOTE: Trail hot - museum great

NOTE: Short but some interesting plants

NOTE: Seems unlikely here but they are on mainland not far

LOCATION: Accuracy: Read me

On Big Map: Click map (or on google maps). Address: 12231 SW 166 Ct., Cedar Key, FL, Levy, USA, 32625

5 CLOSEST (Map)

Miles	Location
0.5	Cemetery Point Boardwalk
1.4	Cedar Key Pier and Town
1.9	Cedar Keys NWR - Atsena Otie Key
2	Cedar Key No. 4 Bridge and Pier
4.1	Lower Suwannee NWR - Dennis Creek Trail

OFFICIAL INFO:

It's a museum built in the 60's judging by architecture - and it's a nice museum. There's a preserved house of a naturalist who lived here that's interesting. Out back is a trail that's part mixed woods and part along the water you see when crossing the bridges to get to Cedar Key.

2) Kinds of Birds

We saw thrashes, wading birds, titmice. Fairly good birding.

3) Amenities

Museum with bathrooms.

4) Time Requirements

Hour or hour and a half maybe to do all of it.

Experience

Just getting out here is fun because you get to see where the actual Cedar Key residents live. The museum is fun because it's a well preserved old 60's building (I'm guessing). Lots of dioramas and artifacts on the history here. The house on the property is one a historic naturalist lived and showed the era he was from. Behind that the trail is nice but short - and lots of mosquitoes. The mixed forest part has a huge yaupon holly bush used by Native Americans to make caffeine laden "black drink" (wikipedia). Overlooking the water and bridges is pretty but mosquitoes get thick.

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