Ocean to Lake Trail Hiking Guide

Official partner of Florida Hikes! One of the more beautiful and difficult backpacking routes in South Florida, the Ocean to Lake Hiking Trail is a surprising introduction to wild spaces that you wouldn't expect to still exist on this heavily populated coast. Created and maintained by the Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association as a spur trail off the Florida Trail, it is routed through the North Everglades Natural Area, a ribbon of public lands between Lake Okeechobee and Hobe Sound Beach. It touches agricultural lands at its western extent, and an upscale beach community along the Atlantic Ocean, as well as a well-groomed county park near Jupiter. But along the rest of the hike, roaming across vast prairies, climbing giant dunes, and wading through cypress strands, it's hard to imagine over a million people live in the West Palm Beach metro nearby.