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The Ocala National Forest has three trail systems for off-highway vehicles (OHV): the Ocala North OHV Trail System with six trail loops that are 125 miles (201 km) long, the Wandering Wiregrass OHV Trail in the southeast of the forest with a trail length of 17 miles (27 km), and the Ocala Centennial OHV Trail system which was added in 2008 to ...
Silver Glen Springs is a first-magnitude spring and the main attraction of the Silver Glen Springs Recreation Area of Ocala National Forest. [1] [2] It lies at the east edge of the national forest. [3] It is about 2 miles north of the entrance of Juniper Creek, [4] and it is along the edge of the Big Scrub. [1]
The Billies Bay Wilderness is part of Ocala National Forest.The 3,092-acre (13 km 2) wilderness was established on September 28, 1984.The mostly marshy and swampy nature of the area is indicated by the word 'bay' as part of the name, since this is a Floridian term for swamp.
Yearling Trail in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness. The author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings visited the last two remaining inhabitants, Calvin and Mary Long in October 1933. She recorded the stories she was told on that occasion and other visits, which she worked into her novel The Yearling which was published in 1938 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
The lake covers 32 acres (13 ha). The recreation area has access to hiking and biking trails. [2] [3] Canoe rentals are offered. [1] There is also a nature trail by the lake, mountain biking on the Paisley Woods Bicycle Trail, and access to the Florida Trail. The area is also used by kayakers. [3]
"Ocala National Forest holds the largest and one of the last remaining contiguous pieces of habitat called sandpine scrub," Carrie Sekerak, deputy district ranger for the U.S. Forest Service ...
U.S. Forest Service Alexander Springs Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Florida and was designated in 1984 by the United States Congress . The wilderness has a total of 7,941 acres (32 km 2 ) and is within Ocala National Forest , which is the oldest National Forest east of the Mississippi River .
In early 1994, college students John Edwards and his big sister met for what was supposed to be a fun weekend camping trip at Ocala National Forest in north central Florida.It turned into a nightmare.