Creek Ranch Public Access Update

Creek Ranch, the 1,324-acre site on Hatchineha Road opened earlier this year, but that information requires an update.
If you drive out Hatchineha Road and see the Creek Ranch sign and entrance, you will find it closed.
When I asked Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials about this I learned that entrance is reserved for staff and contractors.
If you want to visit the site to go hiking or explore nature, you have to use an entrance farther west.
It is donated by a white mailbox located diagonally across Hatchineha Road from the entrance of the Hatchineha Unit of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge.
There are walk-through gates on either side of the parking area that will allow you to visit a diversity of habitats found on the property.
Those habitats range from bay swamps to scrubby flatwoods. Admission is free.
At some point FWC officials say they will erect an entrance sign to make the access point for the trail system more obvious.

Posted in Group Conservation Issues.