{"id":4480,"date":"2015-12-02T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:14:51","slug":"paynes-prairie-hawthorne-state-bike-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=4480","title":{"rendered":"Paynes Prairie & Hawthorne State Bike Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paynes<\/a><\/p>\n

A view from the Visitor Center Fire Tower, shows why it\u2019s called a prairie.<\/p>\n

A hot day and some sandy trails got Peggy in her complaining mode, also on our 6 mile round trip ride we found that the visitor center was closed and under construction. The view of the Florida Prairie was cool but we saw no Buffalo in sight.\"Hawthorne<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wildlife<\/a><\/p>\n

The weather report for Wednesday was warm 81o<\/sup>F by noon and a light rain in the late afternoon. So we left early to enjoy the bike trail before it got too hot.<\/p>\n

The 11 mile round ride from Rochelle included some actual hills which challenged Peggy but didn\u2019t stop her. \"Peg<\/a>She likes the nice downhill coasts after the uphill’s. After we laughed at the Wildlife Crossing sign above, guess what we saw going across the bike trail.<\/p>\n

\"Turtle<\/a><\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>I took a look at the view back toward Paynes Prairie Campground from the Alachua Lake Overlook.<\/p>\n

The picture below is what I was looking at.<\/p>\n

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\"Alachua<\/a><\/p>\n

I posted a map of this portion of our trip in my last blog. We are currently at #10 and tomorrow morning we will leave for Silver Lake, #12. This place is pretty popular and convenient to the 46 mile long Withlacoochee State Bike Trail and on a lake which is a wide spot in the Withlacoochee River. So this will allow us to canoe & bike and use the bike trail to set up a shuttle.<\/p>\n

I hope we can snag a site before the weekend. They do not take reservations in this State Forest campground and if they enforce the 14 day limit we may get a site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A view from the Visitor Center Fire Tower, shows why it\u2019s called a prairie. A hot day and some sandy trails got Peggy in her complaining mode, also on our 6 mile round trip ride we found that the visitor center was closed and under construction. The view of the Florida Prairie was cool but … Continue reading Paynes Prairie & Hawthorne State Bike Trail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1516trip","category-16fltrip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}