Jungle Hut Loop Trail – Florida Hikes

A pretty inexperienced area surrounded by golf programs and homes in Hammock Dunes east of the Mantanzas River, the Jungle Hut Loop Path supplies slightly slice of untamed panorama.

The extensive pathway is designed for foot site visitors and bicycles, immersing guests in a forested oasis.

Archway of oaks

Assets

Overview

Location: Palm CoastLength: 1.1 milesTrailhead: 29.584278, -81.186556Address: Jungle Hut Rd, Palm CoastFees: FreeRestrooms: NoneLand supervisor: Flagler CountyPhone: 386-313-4020

Open dawn to 11 PM. Leashed canines welcome.

Instructions

Hike

Starting the hike subsequent to a big signal on the trailhead, stroll southward throughout a small grassy clearing, and switch proper to start a counterclockwise circuit across the loop.

Comply with a well-worn crushed shell pathway because it leads right into a dense thicket of tall noticed palmettos.

Trailhead signal

Pine saplings and rusty lyonia emerge from clusters of palm fronds, climbing in direction of the solar underneath a shady a cover of twisted sand stay oaks draped with Spanish moss.

In a couple of hundred ft, the path turns sharply to the left.

Coastal hammock

Beautyberry bushes often crowd the path, their branches thick with foliage within the hotter months, and shorting a bounty of iridescent purple berries in late summer time.

Tangles of grapevines turn out to be extra distinguished because the pathway winds additional into the forest.

Beautyberries

Ferns and cabbage palms proliferate whereas coming into a stand of pines on the japanese facet of the loop.

Beneath a sparse cover, daylight reaches the needle-strewn pathway, filling the air with a piney scent.

Ferns and cabbage palms

The path returns to a hardwood hammock whereas approaching the northern finish of the loop.

Morning glory vines creep throughout grasses and shrubs to show showy flowers early within the day.

Rising from the woods after slightly over one mile, the loop concludes at a grassy clearing subsequent to the parking space.

Morning glory

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Mountaineering Jungle Hut Loop Path

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Alongside along with his spouse Chelsey, Chris Stevens shares outside adventures on Instagram and Fb as @sunshinestateseekers and is a co-host of a podcast about Florida’s outside, The Florida Madcaps. An avid hiker and camper, Chris serves as a Trailmaster and a board member for the Florida Path Affiliation.

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