{"id":6539,"date":"2025-01-14T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=6539"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:39:42","slug":"for-the-next-two-weeks-i-will-be-at-wp-franklin-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=6539","title":{"rendered":"For the next two weeks I will be at WP Franklin Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I checked into WP Franklin Corp of Engineers Campground on an island at a lock on the Caloosahatchee River by noon on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is an aerial view, this is the 3rd time I got campsite #8.<\/span><\/p>\n


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The campground is northeast of Fort Myers in a quiet neighborhood.
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For paddlers or fisherman there is a lot to do. You can fish from the dam area, launch a boat from the boat ramp upstream into fresh water or go downstream through the lock and fish in salt water.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For paddlers, about a mile down stream, you can paddle up the narrow Telegraph Creek about 3 miles , beyond that it is very narrow and often blocked by fallen trees. <\/span><\/p>\n


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I expected to see hurricane damage this year but everything looked normal, except I saw no large alligators but many more smaller ones.<\/a>
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There were plenty of birds and a few turtles. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Paddlers can also paddle about 1-1\/2 mi upstream from our campground and head south up Hickey Creek, a wider and deeper creek, to a park with a landing and a picnic area and  pavilion. You can continue upstream another mile or so but it narrows and you will again be blocked by fallen trees.<\/span><\/p>\n


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For bicyclists you can bike around the nearby neigborhood streets which will require short rides down River Rd which has no bike lanes but light traffic. I try to wait for no traffic and sprint to the next street. It is not hard to get in a 8 to 10 mile trip. There is a regional park 2 miles down River Rd that has mountain bike trails. If you have a car you can drive 10 miles over to Babcock Ranch which has miles of paved bike trails through this newer growing planned community.<\/span><\/div>\n

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You can also get some pretty sunrise or sunset pictures from your campsite.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I checked into WP Franklin Corp of Engineers Campground on an island at a lock on the Caloosahatchee River by noon on Saturday. Here is an aerial view, this is the 3rd time I got campsite #8. The campground is northeast of Fort Myers in a quiet neighborhood. For paddlers or fisherman there is a … Continue reading For the next two weeks I will be at WP Franklin Park<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2425trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539","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=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}