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Canoes pulled up on the bank of the Loxahatchee River, Northwest Fork, inside Jonathan Dickinson State Park
Hidden Spots

Jonathan Dickinson — The Wild River, Hobe Mountain, and South Florida's Most Overlooked Big Park

Eleven thousand five hundred acres of pine flatwoods and sand-pine scrub thirty minutes north of Jupiter, wrapped around the first federally Wild & Scenic River in Florida. Tourists drive past it forever. Locals know it's the wildest piece of land in a hundred-mile radius.
Loxahatchee River with cabbage palms and reflective dark water in Jonathan Dickinson State Park
Outdoor Sports

Loxahatchee River — Florida's Only Wild & Scenic Kayak River, Jupiter to Trapper Nelson

There are 209 federally-designated Wild & Scenic Rivers in the United States. Two are in Florida. The Loxahatchee — nine paddleable miles from Jupiter through cypress forest to the old Trapper Nelson homestead — is the one nobody outside South Florida talks about. Alligators on every bank. Manatees in winter.