The South Florida Water Management District has opened 1,873 acres to general public use in Polk County.
The property had been opened to hunting for a couple of years and now will be open to hiking, bicycling and nature viewing as well as continued hunting and frog gigging.
This is part of the former Rolling Meadows Ranch along Catfish Creek between Lake Hatchineha and Camp Mack Road.
For now access appears to be by boat only—there are no designated access points on Camp Mack Road—though it seems possible there may be land access whenever the Florida State Park Service opens the section of Rolling Meadows that is part of Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek State Park. No date for the opening of that section to the public has been established.