Wadsworth Park – Florida Hikes - Primal Outdoor Members Portal

Established in 1980 and named for the Flagler County legislator who “made recreation attainable,” Wadsworth Park occupies a parcel donated by the developer that created Palm Coast.

An energetic recreation park with ballfields and courts, it additionally has a canine park, skateboard park, and playground.

Peeking through pines at skateboard area

Skateboard park simply inside the doorway gates

The park fronts a puzzle of estuary behind an island alongside Smith Creek, the Intracoastal Waterway by means of Flagler Seaside.

A boardwalk as soon as prolonged into the estuary, however we may discover no proof of it.

This half mile stroll circles the southeast nook of the park, combining a boardwalk over a pond with a footpath by means of a hardwood hammock.

Boardwalk

Assets

Overview

Location: Flagler BeachLength: 0.5 milesTrailhead: 29.478034, -81.143848Address: 2200 Moody Blvd, Flagler BeachFees: FreeRestroom: On the trailheadLand Supervisor: Metropolis of Flagler BeachPhone: 386-313-4020

Open dawn to sundown. Leashed canines welcome; decide up after your pet.

Instructions

From Interstate 95 exit 284 for Flagler Seaside, drive east on SR 100 for two.3 miles. The park entrance is on the left simply earlier than the bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway.

Hike

Park throughout from the tennis courts in entrance of the stand of pines surrounding the restrooms.

Simply to the north, observe the split-rail fence on the opposite aspect of the park street to an entrance to a boardwalk.

Boardwalk entrance

Accompanied by alligator warning indicators, the boardwalk ascends above a reasonably cove shaded by pond cypress.

Thick with cattails, the marshy finish of the pond is the place alligators are inclined to solar.

Alligator mendacity within the cattails

The cypress-edged south finish attracts herons and egrets to poke round its rim to feed.

Crossing open water in the direction of the pines on the far shore, hover properly above the pond on a broad deck, expecting wildlife.

Sun reflecting through cypresses off water

Open water within the pond

Reaching the shoreline, flip proper to circle the pond. A bench overlooks from a shaded terrace above it.

Assembly a mud street, flip proper to observe it alongside the east aspect of the pond. One other bench sits very near the water.

Bench alongside the pond

The place the street swings proper, bear left into a gap within the woods. This broad pathway enters a hardwood hammock on the bluff above the Smith Creek basin.

Deeply shaded by stay oaks and southern magnolia, its cover is topped by tall slash pines. Slip previous cabbage palms, following the plain leaf-strewn path.

Hammock footpath

The pathway meets an influence line easement at a T intersection. Utilized by anglers, the worn path to the left results in the estuary’s edge beneath the SR 100 bridge.

Flip proper on this path, strolling the hall as much as the parking space exterior the entrance gates.

Powerline easement path

Though initially right here for the sake of fishing entry, this parking space now serves as a trailhead for the north extension of the Graham Swamp Path.

A sidepath from the park entrance leads west alongside SR 100 to intercept the path on the north aspect of its showy bridge over SR 100.

Flip proper and enter the park on a sidewalk, swooping out of the timber alongside the grassy expanse in entrance of the tennis courts to finish this half mile stroll.