Inside the 4,000 acre expanse of Escribano Level WMA, Bayou Recreation Space sits on a bluff above a horseshoe curve of Fundy Bayou’s outflow to Blackwater Bay.
Previously a tenting space, it’s now day use solely with picnic tables to benefit from the view and paths down the bluff for anglers to strategy the water’s edge.
Outflow of Fundy Bayou in the direction of the bayBeginning at a kiosk alongside the sting of the parking space, the Fundy Bayou Path is a simple loop of lower than a mile into upland habitats above the bayou.
This well-marked tour into scrub, sandhill, and pine flatwoods is a counterpoint to the bayou’s majestic move under the bluff.
Alongside the footpathSources
Overview
Size: 0.7 milesTrailhead: 30.51015, -87.00323Address: Choctaw Touchdown Rd, MiltonFees: FreeRestroom: On the trailheadsLand Supervisor: Florida FWCPhone: 850-488-6411
Open daybreak to nightfall. Leashed canines welcome. No tenting. Trails are multi-use. An Eglin Recreation Allow shouldn’t be required to drive by the bottom to this WMA.
Verify on scheduled searching seasons upfront of your go to. Put on vivid orange for those who select to hike throughout hunts.
Instructions
Hike
Starting close to a scenic sand bluff above Fundy Bayou, that is the shortest and driest of the hikes on the WMA.
Adjoining the vault rest room, the trailhead kiosk has a number of maps on it, the one in coloration most correct.
Trailhead kiosk with mapThe beginning of the path is marked by a yellow blaze on a pine and a hiker marker on a brown submit. Enter a sand pine scrub, its understory dense with younger oaks.
It was not too long ago burned on our go to, however patches of excessive floor had been topped with deer moss.
Hiker markers complement blazing in just a few spotsWinding gently by this forest, transition into scrubby flatwoods.
Glimpse a distant grassy prairie past the pines when the footpath turns proper to affix a clay forest street.
The street weaves by sandhill habitat, generally referred to as clayhill on this a part of the state.
Clay streetAt 1 / 4 mile, the place the street is bolstered by gravel, flip left on the yellow blaze, the route confirmed by a brown submit.
The broad footpath goals for the grassy prairie and skims the west fringe of it inside the pines.
Tiny mounds of rounded balled mud rise from the pine duff underfoot, the doorway to crayfish burrows.
Path to the prairieCircle noticed palmetto and move a Southern magnolia, following yellow blazes to the prairie’s grassy rim. Watch fastidiously for blazing.
Swinging left, the footpath ascends barely inside a hall edged with noticed palmetto.
The prairieStroll underneath a sand dwell oak earlier than reaching a hiker marker with a clay street simply forward at a half mile.
The footpath resumes inside the noticed palmetto hall on the opposite aspect of the street.
Curving within the course of Fundy Bayou, it wends its means by the sandhills, assembly a sand street.
Within the sandhillsFollowing the instructions on the marker posts, flip proper onto this street, then left on a clay street.
You are actually on the doorway street you drove in on to succeed in Bayou Recreation Space. Stroll the street to the trailhead to finish a 0.7 mile loop.
Sand street resulting in entrance streetPath Map
Discover Extra!
Study extra about Escribano Level WMA
Escribano Level WMA Discover coastal habitats alongside the estuaries of Blackwater Bay at this distant wildlife administration space with a number of miles of trails and a seaside for paddlers to launch from.Video
Mountain climbing the Fundy Bayou Loop
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See our photographs from the Fundy Bayou Loop
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Writer of 45 books, Sandra Pal established FloridaHikes.com in 2006 to broaden on the sphere analysis she’d accomplished for her first six mountaineering guides. She has been honored with lifetime achievement awards from the Florida Path Affiliation and the Florida Out of doors Writers Affiliation.
