Seminole Ranch - Orlando Wetlands to Hwy 50
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.97 mi
- Elevation gain
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- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
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- Max elevation
- 24 ft
- TrailRank
- 19
- Min elevation
- 14 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 4 hours 11 minutes
- Coordinates
- 5846
- Uploaded
- January 16, 2015
- Recorded
- April 2014
near Christmas, Florida (United States)
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Itinerary description
Tina and I started this trip with a picnic lunch in Orlando Wetlands Park. Since there has been very little rain lately, this was a good time for this hike. In the rainy season, there are several bridges that go over what would have been marshy areas.
Right across the street is the trailhead for the trails through the southern part of the Seminole Ranch conservation area. This is a real ranch, with cattle and everything, so on the northern part of these trails you will need to watch your step. From the trail head you head west across a field until you get to the woods. the southern route that we took stayed in the woods until the very end, with a pond waiting at the very end.
On the way back, we followed the white blazes. The white blazed trails aren't nearly as well traveled as the orange and blue blazes, but they certainly offer some pretty forest to hike through.
Back on the northern part of the white blazed loop, Tina stepped over a juvenile timber rattler. I almost didn't see it either except the movement of his tiny tail twitching caught my eye. This guy was too small to bite (he didn't even make a sound with his rattle). I tried to get a picture, but as soon as I pulled out my camera he spooked and slithered off.
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Right across the street is the trailhead for the trails through the southern part of the Seminole Ranch conservation area. This is a real ranch, with cattle and everything, so on the northern part of these trails you will need to watch your step. From the trail head you head west across a field until you get to the woods. the southern route that we took stayed in the woods until the very end, with a pond waiting at the very end.
On the way back, we followed the white blazes. The white blazed trails aren't nearly as well traveled as the orange and blue blazes, but they certainly offer some pretty forest to hike through.
Back on the northern part of the white blazed loop, Tina stepped over a juvenile timber rattler. I almost didn't see it either except the movement of his tiny tail twitching caught my eye. This guy was too small to bite (he didn't even make a sound with his rattle). I tried to get a picture, but as soon as I pulled out my camera he spooked and slithered off.
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Trailhead kiosk
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Entering the woods
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Stile crosses barbed wire fence
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First bridge - sturdy but no water
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Fork to Bronson State Forest
Saving this trip for another day.
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Second bridge - sturdy, but still no water
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View of the trail
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Gnarly oak tree
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Fork In Path
We followed the blazed trail, but the unmarked one looked well traveled too.
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Third bridge - also sturdy, also with no water.
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Fourth bridge - super sturdy, but still no water
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Fork In Path
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Fifth bridge
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View down the path
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Bridge - with poop! Don't know what animal left it, but it wasn't a dog or a cow.
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Fence crossing
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Fishhawk Pond Campsite
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Bridge over deep gully - This time with water
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Eighth bridge
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Fishhawk Pond is just up ahead
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Fishhawk Pond
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Taking the white blazes back
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View down the trail
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