Collier-Seminole State Park
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Collier-Seminole State Park is a Florida State Park located on US 41, 17 miles south of Naples. The park is the home of a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, the Bay City Walking Dredge used to build the Tamiami Trail through the Everglades. The park includes of 6,430 acres of mangrove swamp, cypress swamps, salt marshes, mangrove river estuaries, and pine flatwoods. Among the wildlife of the park are alligators, raccoons, Ospreys, and White Ibis. Brown Pelicans, Wood Storks, Bald Eagles, Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, crocodiles, Florida black bears and Big Cypress fox squirrels also inhabit the park.
Activities include picnicking, hiking, bicycling, and canoeing, camping, wildlife viewing, fishing and boating. Amenities include an RV park, four pavilion picnic shelters, a boat ramp, and a full-facility campground with youth, group and primitive campsites. The park has a number of trails. A 13.6-mile canoe trail that flows down the Blackwater River through a mangrove forest. A 6.5-mile hiking trail runs through the park. A .9 mile nature trail features a boardwalk system and observation platform that overlooks the salt marsh. The park is open from 8:00 am till sundown year round.
