NWR 4 Duke's Lake loop -: 17 OCT 2020 07:24
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.57 nm
- Elevation gain
- 3 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3 ft
- Max elevation
- 45 ft
- TrailRank
- 30
- Min elevation
- -56 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 2 hours 5 minutes
- Coordinates
- 418
- Uploaded
- October 18, 2020
- Recorded
- October 2020
near Weavers Station, 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”.
National Wildlife Refuge trail #4 is 1.8 miles past the entrance to the Marsh Trail parking lot on US 41 headed east. Park on the south side of US41 – back up to the launch behind the guardrail or park past there if it’s crowded. There's a marker that says NWR Canoe Trail 4. The launch is gravel and well protected into a narrow channel through a cattail marsh. There are no markers until you get past the cattail marsh, about half a mile.
The trail is marked with PVC pipes to the lake with vertical white PVC posts, but no markers on the return part of the loop from the lake. The exit from the Lake toward the west and then north is unmarked as is the return trail which is more like dead reckoning looking for openings in the mangrove islands. The trail can only be done in wet season (usually June to November). Deepest areas may be 4 ft. in the lake. The rest is a shallow swamp/marsh.
National Wildlife Refuge trail #4 is 1.8 miles past the entrance to the Marsh Trail parking lot on US 41 headed east. Park on the south side of US41 – back up to the launch behind the guardrail or park past there if it’s crowded. There's a marker that says NWR Canoe Trail 4. The launch is gravel and well protected into a narrow channel through a cattail marsh. There are no markers until you get past the cattail marsh, about half a mile.
The trail is marked with PVC pipes to the lake with vertical white PVC posts, but no markers on the return part of the loop from the lake. The exit from the Lake toward the west and then north is unmarked as is the return trail which is more like dead reckoning looking for openings in the mangrove islands. The trail can only be done in wet season (usually June to November). Deepest areas may be 4 ft. in the lake. The rest is a shallow swamp/marsh.
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