Mountain Biking Lake O thru Big Cypress thru Everglades National Park

[shawn beightol]

I've been exploring a continuous mountain bike trip from lake okeechobee down to flamingo via levees and ORV trails.

The entire route is ~210 miles:

along Miami canal to the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum,

then over to Nobles Grade (FT)

then diagonally down (hopefully) off "campfire trail" to mm70,

then down Concho Billie ORV trail to monument ORV trail to Loop Road and east along the 41 to l67ext canal.  

Here, cross 41 and head east on l29 canal levee to the Krome Canal (l31) which brings you by chekika to SW 288 st (an abandoned road that goes west into the glades).

then SW 288 St turns south (approx SW 300 Ave) and heads toward the pineland trail off Hwy 9336 (Ingraham Hwy) in ENP.  There's about 2 miles of unblazed prairie riding to get to Ingraham Hwy.

From Ingrahams at Pineland, ride through Nike missile site to old Ingraham's hwy then across Coe and ingraham backcountry campgrounds.  

From here its about 4 miles on defunct and possibly removed old ingraham hwy to hwy 9336 to Flamingo.  after this 4 miles of hump busting, its a cakewalk to flamingo.

This saturday I will either try mm 70 (I75) south to concho billies for 10 miles in (20 round trip) or Monroe North from Loop road off Hwy 41 for 10 miles in (20 miles round trip)  - depending on whether anyone is interested.

In the near future, I will want to scout the SW 300 Ave to Pineland, MM 70 (I75) North toward campfire trail, and the ride from SW 120 st past chekika to SW 288 St.

If you are interested in this saturday riding in the turner river unit either south from MM 70 or North from Monroe station, let me know.

If you are interested in scouting any of the other portions of this ride this spring, let me know.

See Noble's Grade/Campfire Trail for an idea of how the ride off Noble's grade would be (may need to watch in HD)

See SW 288 St Ride toward Pineland ENP