Beautiful ride! Flat and about 10 miles. Really great history and easy to find parking along the route. Good for families. You do have to cross a few roads on the southern end of it so starting at a parking lot north of 90 might be best.
Steve H.
Classificação do local: 4 Milton, FL
Great place to walk or bike ride… certain sections, at least. I would recommend starting at the trailhead at Hwy. 90 and Hwy 87 and heading north, if you want an easy-to-find rendezvous point. I usually park at the Milton Public Library and head away from town, although you can also park at the equestrian spot on Munson Highway and come back towards town, or head towards Whiting Field. I used to do that, but you are in the boonies that far out. This is a nice paved trail. It begins about a mile south of Highway 90, just short of the railroad tracks. Indeed, this trail used to be train tracks, which were ripped up and the bed was paved. Stay away from that section. When I first started walking this trail, I would see vagrants and other miscreants malingering and looking shady. I stopped walking there after a filthy guy carrying a guitar panhandled me. WTH? I was wearing running shorts and a t-shirt…did he think that I was toting doubloons in my BVDs? Idjit. The trailhead has water and restrooms and is located across the street from Burger King(yuck!). Many other fast food places and sit-down restaurants are nearby. Heading north, you walk about a mile through neighborhoods to the library, where there is a building for the trail, a playground, and water. This is your last chance for water until the Whiting Field trailhead… about 6 miles away. You’ll be in a neighborhood for about ¼ mile after the lieberry, then some rural ranchy-type scenery for another ¾ mile. It is during that stretch that you can talk(or yell like a lunatic) to the goats and horses behind fences on both sides of the trail. Yesterday I overtook a walking couple that was carrying a bag of carrots to feed to the goats. You enter the woods just short of that ¾ mile and continue about another mile until you reach Munson Highway. There’s a hill on this stretch that always gets my calves(moo!) burning. Crossing Munson Highway, you’ll go less than a mile to a long wooden bridge over a largish creek. There are several bridges and creeks on the trail, and are a nice place to catch your breath and try to spot fish, turtles, snakes, and perhaps the marine version of Bigfoot. If you hear banjos, continue forthwith out of the area at a sustained and high rate of speed. The trail is well-marked with mile and half-mile markers, which is useful. about 75 yards from the library parking lot is the 2-mile marker, so you can easily set a goal for the distance that you want to walk. Keep in mind that you have to walk back. The farthest spot that I’ve ever walked to was about the 7-mile marker. Hell no, I didn’t start at the library! I parked in the large parking lot at the Munson Highway equestrian launch. There are long spaces there to accommodate trucks with trailers and such. Also some benches upon which to perch. Matter of fact, there are infrequent benches all along the trail, along with a Portajohn outhouse around the 4.5-mile marker(or there used to be one there). Anyway. There is an occasional house abutting the trail in places, but you are pretty much in the wilderness. There are swampy areas, forest, water, hills, flowers, etc. During certain parts of the year, you can forage for berries along the trail for sustenance. What else? I can’t think of anything. There is enough to look at that you won’t get bored, unless you are a shut-in, outside under extreme duress, and hating nature. Don’t be hating nature! This trail is just fine and you will see entire families biking along it. Pack a picnic, load up the bikes, and pay Milton a visit. I’ll upload a map from the website that shows mile marker locations and distances from the library. It also has notations about things to look at, although I never peeped Rambo the turtle on my treks of the southern, sketchy stretch of the trail. Edited to add: That map is pretty illegible due to Unilocal’s too-small picture size, but you can see it on the website linky. Also, on the map, «Visitor Center» is the Milton Public Library… if you have never been to Milton and want to begin at that spot in the trail, do an internet search for the lieberry, instead.
