Scheduled Field Trips
Follow these pages to get updates on what is being planned. The trips will have the best of northeast Florida, giving you a chance to visit some of Florida's oldest and most unique ecosystems.
- See rare plants in their native habitats
- See examples of outstanding ecologically sound land management
- Get to meet some of Florida's best field botanists and ecologists
All field trips require advance registration. Check individual field trips for costs and difficulty. Trip days and times may change several times before the field trips are finalized.
Always plan to bring:
- Water
- Comfortable field clothes and closed-toed shoes (boots recommended). In many places, long pants are strongly advised.
- Sunscreen and sun hat
- If the trip will extend through the noon hour, bring lunch
Click on the title of any trip to get trip detail
Bill Berthet's Pollinator Yard Tour & Concert
Award winning pollinator habitat
Bogey Creek Preserve & Pumpkin Hill Preserve State Park
See rare coastal uplands and one of North Florida Land Trust's preserves
Branan Field Wildlife & Environmental Area
Gopher tortoise mitigation area
Fort George Island Cultural State Park and Kingsley Plantation
Historic site of human habitation for over 5,000 years
Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens
Full zoo tour highlighting native gardens
Bike EcoTour with Kayak Amelia
Cycle through Big Talbot Island State Park
Kayak EcoTour of Simpson Creek and its marshes
A naturalist-led tour with Kayak Amelia
Little Talbot Island Dune Tour & Beach Walk
Five miles of beautiful, white sandy beaches
Theodore Roosevelt Area & Fort Caroline National Memorial
Incredible hiking trail with diverse native plants & history
Native Plant Photography Workshop
with Paul Rebmann
Cary State Forest
Orchids and trail tour of Florida's second oldest State Forest
Crosby Sanctuary
Duval Audubon Society limited access preserve
Guana Outpost Kayak EcoTour
Kayak Tour of the Guana Reserve
GTMNERR Education Center & Trail Tour
Tour restored freshwater marsh, mesic flatwoods & scenic estuarine overlooks
Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens
120 acre urban woodland
Julington-Durbin Preserve
A St. Johns River Water Management District natural oasis among the urban areas of Jacksonville & St. Johns County
Gold Head Branch State Park
Hike beautiful fire-maintained sandhills in one of Florida's first state parks
Native Park and Jake Ingram's Native Yard
Ixia Chapter award winning park & nearby native yard
Williams Wetland Preserve
Tour the recently protected property of FWC's landowner of the year