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Okefenokee Wilderness is a 353,981 acre (1,432.5 km 2) U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Georgia in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1974 when 343,850 acres (1,391.5 km 2 ) were designated as wilderness by Public Law 93-429 .
Coordinates for junction points (see Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Map to locate them): Junction of Suwannee Canal and Prairie Lakes Run: N30.73708° W82.17473° Junction of Prairie Lakes Run and Tater Rake: N30.72608° W082.18269° Those canoeing North on Prairie Lakes Run towards Coffee Bay Shelter can take Tater Rake as a shortcut.
The 200-mile (320 km) long Bartram Canoe Trail system of canoe and kayak water trails in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta is one of the longest in the United States. [8] It is operated by the Alabama Department of Conservation and offers canoeists and kayakers 13 different routes to choose from, including three routes with floating campsites ...
The Bartram Canoe Trail is a system of canoe and kayak water trails in the Mobile–Tensaw River Delta of Alabama. Named for explorer and naturalist William Bartram, the 200-mile-long trail system is one of the longest in the United States. [1] It includes bottomland hardwood swamp, creeks, side channel sloughs, lakes and backwaters.
The Okefenokee was formed over the past 6,500 years by the accumulation of peat in a shallow basin on the edge of an ancient Atlantic coastal terrace, the geological relic of a Pleistocene estuary. The swamp is bordered by Trail Ridge, a strip of elevated land believed to have formed as coastal dunes or an offshore barrier island.
The Suwannee River Wilderness Trail is "a connected web of Florida State Parks, preserves and wilderness areas" that stretches more than 170 miles (274 kilometers), from Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park to the Gulf of Mexico. [21]
A company pursuing permits to mine for titanium on the doorstep of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge says their project will bring badly needed, good-paying jobs to rural south Georgia ...
Mohave Water Trail: AZ, NV: 76 mi (122 km) Musconetcong Watershed National Water Trail: NJ: 42 mi (68 km) New York State Canalway Water Trail: NY: 450 mi (720 km) North Carolina Smoky Mountain Blueways: NC: 167 mi (269 km) Ohio River Water Trail around Parkersburg, West Virginia: OH, WV: 57 mi (92 km) Okefenokee Wilderness Canoe Trail System: GA