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Jonathan Dickinson State Park
16450 SE Federal Highway,
Hobe Sound
Florida
33455
(561) 546-2771
Type: Hiking Tour
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Hobe Sound
Florida
33455
(561) 546-2771
Type: Hiking Tour
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While it’s slightly south of this area, Jonathan Dickinson State Park,561-546-2771, in Hobe Sound, is worth the short tripinto neighboring Martin County. Its four nature trails total 1.2 miles and there is a 17-mile section of the Florida Trail near the park’s entrance.
Vegetation includes cypress canopies along the Loxahatchee River, freshwater creeks, mangrove wetlands and pine flatwoods. The park’s permanent residents include gopher tortoises, woodpeckers, white-tail deer, ospreys, white ibises, herons, egrets, bald eagles and anhingas. The not-so-permanent species are scrub jays, northern bobwhites, sandhill cranes and woodstorks.
The park’s namesake was a Quaker merchant who in 1769, according to legend, shipwrecked off what is now Hobe Sound. Dickinson, his family and other survivors made the long trek north to St. Augustine. Dickinson wrote a journal along the way about his numerous encounters with Indians and Spanish settlers.
the park entrance is on US 1, 16 miles south of the St. Lucie-Martin county line.
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