{"id":5796,"date":"2020-02-01T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:07:18","slug":"highland-hammock-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"Highland Hammock State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I know we have visited this park but I\u2019ll bet it was over 30 years ago. I couldn\u2019t remember what we did, that\u2019s why I like creating these blogs. At least it reminds me what we did and if we liked the park.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The park first opened in 1931, it was developed by CCC in 1934 and became one of the first Florida state parks in 1935. The 140 site campground is crowded under a large canopy of trees, it feels like you are jammed in pretty tight but they do have 30 amp power &amp; water at each site. Some large RV\u2019s may have trouble finding a site they could fit in.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><figure><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HighlandsHammock4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HighlandsHammock4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"459\" data-original-width=\"612\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">They have a bunch of short hiking trails, some raised on boardwalks that can be reached from the 4 mile paved bike trail that winds through a jungle like setting including a claimed 1000 year old oak tree.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HighlandsHammock3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HighlandsHammock3-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HighlandsHammock3-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There are some longer bike trails that are on old gravel roads.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">There is also a 3 mi asphalt trail that parallels the main road all the way to Sebring.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We rode about 18 miles on our tandem bike on all the various trails.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We camped here for three days and enjoyed the small CCC museum visitor center that is run by the volunteers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"739\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MyakkaHighlandsTemps-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5815\" style=\"width:409px;height:605px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MyakkaHighlandsTemps-4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MyakkaHighlandsTemps-4-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Saturday we had a light rain that curtailed our activities.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">On Sunday we will head south to Lake Worth, FL near West Palm Beach and watch the Superbowl game at John Prince County Park.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know we have visited this park but I\u2019ll bet it was over 30 years ago. I couldn\u2019t remember what we did, that\u2019s why I like creating these blogs. At least it reminds me what we did and if we liked the park. The park first opened in 1931, it was developed by CCC in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Highland Hammock State Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[30,25,37,24],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1920trip","tag-bike","tag-florida","tag-highland-hammock","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","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=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}