Okefenokee

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Swamp Island Drive (7.2 miles) Visitor Center Hiking Trail Information Boardwalk Cafe Motorboats/Canoes Allowed Hiking Trail Canoe Only (Permit Required) Picnic Area Canoe Only (No Permit Required) # Boat Launch Waycross Non-wilderness Uplands Observation Tower Wilderness Uplands Cabins Non-Wilderness Marsh Campground Wilderness Marsh Trailer Sites Wilderness Wetlands Restrooms Other Refuge Wetlands 1 ! Cedar Hammock Shelter # Okefenokee Adventures (Concession) ( /1 Okefenokee Swamp 177 Park ! y # ! ( Mile Markers Historic Site Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Coffee Bay Shelter Suw Cedar Hammock Canoe Trail e anne l Cana Richard S Bolt Visitor Center # _ #! # # Sapling Prairie 1 ! # # # Overnight Shelter/Site # r Rak Dinner Pond # Double Lakes # # Kingfisher Landing # Carter Prairie # # e Ca y Us Tr noe ail Suwa nnee Cana l Day Use Cano e Trail # # Day Use Shelter Da # Maul Hammock # eR un # # Tat e ! @ ] ! ´ ! F ! 5 ! y ! Z ! A ! 2 ! 9 ! ¼ ! _ ! 3 ! 1 ! Refuge Boundary # Chesser Prairie # Hickory Hammock 1 ! # Big Water # # # # Redbird Prairie # 1 ! Cravens Hammock # # Floyds Prairie # # # ! Minnies 3 # Pine Island # # # Rowells Island # Billys Lake # # Suwannee River Sill Mixons Hammock 1 ! # # # # # 121 # _ Folkston! # # # # # # # # # 1 ! Canal Run # # # Chase Prairie # 1 Round ! # Honey Island Cedar Hammock Coffee Bay Honey Island Prairie # # 1 ! # Main Entrance Ridleys Island Homestead Trail # # Chesser Prairie Suwannee Canal Recreation Area # 94 ! ( Strange Island # Grand Prairie Blackjack Prairie ( ( / ! 94 Gannet Lake Blackjack Island Boardwalk Monkey Lake 1 ! # Z _! ! Chesser Island # A ! Coward Lake Prairie Georgia Florida / 0 0.5 1 2 3 4 St Marys River St Marys River 5 Miles 94 ! ( # # # Minnies Pine _ ! Suwannee Canal Recreation Area !! ] @! 5! _! ´! y! F Richard S Bolt Visitor Center Okefenokee Adventures (Concession) St George Upland Hiking Trails at Suwannee Canal Recreation Area Canal Diggers Trail Length: 0.7 mi, 1 km Loop Difficulty: Moderate Follow the remnants of the Suwannee Canal built in 1891 through pine uplands and cypress wetlands to look for signs of gopher tortoises and woodpeckers on this gently sloping up-and-down trail. Upland Discovery Trail Length: 0.25 mi, 0.5 km Loop Difficulty: Easy Walk though pines and palmettos to look for woodpeckers and warblers. Trees marked with a white band indicate roosting or nesting sites for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Deerstand Trail Length: 0.5 mi, 0.75 km One way Difficulty: Easy Enjoy a stroll through pine uplands from the Chesser Homestead to the Chesser Island Boardwalk parking area. # # Chesser Island Boardwalk Length: 0.75 mi, 1 km One way Difficulty: Easy Stroll the Chesser Island Boardwalk, made of a recycled wood-plastic composite, to the 40-foot Owls Roost Observation Tower for a birds-eye view of Seagrove Lake and Chesser Prairie. No Pets Allowed. # Island Billys Mixons # Hammock # 1 ! Suwannee # eN Th # River Sill y! ! F s# ow r r a # # Lake # Stephen # Z ! C Foster State Park !! @ 5! y! F 9! ! ¼! 2 Billys Island The Pocket / Phernetton Trail Chesser Homestead Trail Length: 0.7 mi, 1 km Loop Difficulty: Easy This trail loops through woods of oak, palmetto, and Spanish moss around the historic Chesser Island Homestead. # 3 Lake ! # Longleaf Pine Trail Upland Trails Sapp Prairie ! (2 Suwannee Canal Rd Chesser Island Number One Island Mitchell Island Swamp Island Drive Canal Diggers Trail Upland Discovery Trail # Fargo 441 121 # _ ! Suwannee River 441 ! ( Mizell Prairie # ! ] # # 3 ! e C anal Top # Bugaboo Island S uw an ne Refuge Headquarters Cane Pole Hiking Trail # # # ! ( ( / 1 ! Bluff Lake # Billys Island 177 Water Trails # Stephen C Foster State Park The Pocket Cooter Lake # # # # 1 ! Lake # # # Territory Prairie Floyds Island # # # # # Durdin Prairie # # Minnies Island Monkey Lake Shelter # 0 0.25 0.5 ! ( 177 1 Miles West Entrance Trails # # # Cane Pole Trail Length: 0.35 mi, 0.5 km One way Difficulty: Easy Traverse 100 feet of the Suwannee Canal into wetland prairie, serenaded by cricket and pig frogs to see a sandhill crane or red-shouldered hawk. Longleaf Pine Trail Length: 4.0 mi, 6.5 km One way Difficulty: Easy Explore the longest trail in the refuge as it winds back and forth across the entrance road while listening for frogs and birds that make their home in the wetlands along the trails’ edge. Phernetton Trail Length: 1.3 mi, 2 km Loop Difficulty: Easy Look for clusters of fox squirrel nests in the trees above you while viewing wildlife in the pine forest community. Ridleys Island Trail Length: 0.16 mi, 0.3 km One way Difficulty: Easy Explore and view the remnants of past wildfires along this short boardwalk trail that is a spur off of the Chesser Homestead Trail.