{"id":6362,"date":"2024-01-12T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:51:53","slug":"now-at-eg-simmons-county-park-for-the-next-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"Now at EG Simmons County Park for the next two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Barry left to head back to Pittsburgh I did 3 more bike rides totaling 40 miles around the Fish Hawk area.
\nI thought I would ride in the opposite direction to see if the little Mexican restaurant (La Villa) was still in business. It was there with a similar menu but with much higher prices than 2 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a housing development (River Hills) here which surrounds a golf course and has some hiking trails in the forest
\nalong the Alafia River. I decided to see if I could find them. I couldn’t find
\nthe start at the southern end since it involved crossing a golf cart path. but
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After some bike riding around I found the north end of the trail and started walking it when I saw a sign that said bikes yield to hikers. I went back and decided to ride on the very narrow but hard packed trail with no mud or big roots to jump over. Where it was swampy the trail uses a narrow boardwalk with no railings. It was a good trail but narrow and goes along above the river. The trail is very scenic and well marked. There were other loop trails off the main orange trail but I didn’t try them. My 14mi ride was mostly on neighborhood streets and walkways.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Sunday 1\/7 I left at 7am to go to EG Simmons Park, I got there when they opened the gate at 8am and found they had a dozen empty sites to choose from. I like the east campground since the sites are large and the canal is behind the campsite to launch my kayak.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week had unusual weather for January in FL. It was very changeable going from stormy rainy to cold, to warm weather making it hard to decide what to do. I never took my kayak down since the warm days were also very windy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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A river runs through it when it rains<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I was able to get in 3 nice bike rides totaling 29 mi, around the park and around the streets of Ruskin, FL.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Luckly the campsite was sandy since in a hard rain the water runs right past my door but an hour later it is dry.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This weekend I will watch the NFL playoff games and hopefully get to paddle around the canoe trails in the park next week.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Night Visitor<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Well marked canoe trail<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Peggy viewing St Pete skyline from the park<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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After Barry left to head back to Pittsburgh I did 3 more bike rides totaling 40 miles around the Fish Hawk area. I thought I would ride in the opposite direction to see if the little Mexican restaurant (La Villa) was still in business. It was there with a similar menu but with much higher … Continue reading Now at EG Simmons County Park for the next two weeks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2324trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","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=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}