National Wildlife Refuge Trail 3 to the Marsh Trail
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.87 nm
- Elevation gain
- 3 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3 ft
- Max elevation
- 22 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
- -17 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Coordinates
- 413
- Uploaded
- June 5, 2020
- Recorded
- June 2020
near Royal Palm Hammock, Florida (United States)
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Itinerary description
The National Wildlife Refuge sits on the south side of US-41 and runs from Collier Seminole State Park about 5 miles to Port of the Islands. In that 5 mile stretch there are 4 canoe trails headed south into the marshes. The trails are navigable only during wet season or after heavy rains. Two trails, 1 and 3 are accessible from the roadside. Trail 4 is protected by a guardrail, and Trail 2 is from a 20-car parking lot at the “Marsh Trail”.
Canoe Trail 3 is about 2/3 mile past the entrance to the Marsh Trail parking lot heading east. There's a partially hidden sign post on the south side of US-41 and you can see PVC markers in the distance.
What we did here was to follow the markers for trail 3 some of the way and then we decided to go "exploring" (a.k.a. wandering aimlessly in hopes of getting hopelessly lost). You can tell this from the inebriated appearance of the trail, but it's relatively safe because US 41 is to the north, there's eventually an impenetrable barrier of mangroves to the south, the Marsh Trail is to the west and the Port of the Islands canal is to the East... eventually..
Our motto "What could possibly go wrong?"
Canoe Trail 3 is about 2/3 mile past the entrance to the Marsh Trail parking lot heading east. There's a partially hidden sign post on the south side of US-41 and you can see PVC markers in the distance.
What we did here was to follow the markers for trail 3 some of the way and then we decided to go "exploring" (a.k.a. wandering aimlessly in hopes of getting hopelessly lost). You can tell this from the inebriated appearance of the trail, but it's relatively safe because US 41 is to the north, there's eventually an impenetrable barrier of mangroves to the south, the Marsh Trail is to the west and the Port of the Islands canal is to the East... eventually..
Our motto "What could possibly go wrong?"
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