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Weedon Island Preserve
Pinellas County, Florida
Trail Highlights
Situated along the shore of Old Tampa Bay, Weedon Island Preserve is approximately 3,700 acres of natural lands including mangrove swamps, intertidal flats and pine flatwood uplands. The South Paddling Trail takes you through lush mangroves and over open shallow waters with productive seagrass beds.
The South Paddling Trail is a four-mile loop best accessed at the canoe launch next to the fishing pier at the end of Weedon Drive NE. This trail meanders through mangroves and seagrass flats and between islands of the preserve and along the edge of Tampa Bay. Expect to see wading birds such as reddish egret, roseate spoonbills and white ibis. Weedon Island Mangrove Tunnel paddle takes paddlers on a 7 mile trail through about 5 mangrove tunnels surrounding Weedon Island Preserve.
Come experience “A Place To Remember.”
Images by Joe Whalen
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