Rhodine Scrub Nature Preserve — Attraction in Florida

It's a bit confusing because you have to enter through Stephen Worthem community park walk over a mile to get into the reserve. In that first mile I stepped in at least 3 different dog poop on the pathway covered by random moss or just sand. That's just the 3 I missed of the over 10 I saw in the first mile. I have dogs and would never leave it on the WALKING PATH not along the side ON THE PATH. Smelly brand new poop. I didn't see any real moving water just some stagnant beds. It was very shady so that's a plus but also very very beach sandy. Make sure the wear longer socks. Also saw so much broken glass during the walk its insane how people have no real care for the environment. Upon arrival had to experience a couple screaming at each other about cheating accusations. Take that home how embarrassing they didn't care there were kids at the park or that their friends were witnessing it....

Great park, it is open! People just don't realize you have to go through the park next door to get to it. Wonderfully maintained trails with diverse plant communities & many sand pine stands. Plentiful gopher tortoise throughtout the entire park. Use the google maps bicycle path plugin to see the trails, they'll all show up. Trails are less well maintained down towards the lake but still worth the trek. Only complaint is that there's still a lot of trash left over from ranching & an incredible amount of glass & ceramic along the perimeter trail with the antenna station. Directions to access: park next to playground at Stephan Wortham Park, follow the trail to where the red blazes start, that's the begining of the red blaze loop, the shorter of the two, then proceed to the blue blaze trail that takes you to the East side perimeter trail...

One of the best trails in the hillsborough Paul system of nature preserves. There are no facilities at Rhodine and access is via Steven J. Wortham Park. To gain access there is a very easy short stream hop, a child can handle. The trails are 60/70% shaded but still remember to bring your water and bug spray. Despite being DecemberThe mosquitoes were still out just not that bad.

The trails are very flat in compacted and easy to navigate and walk through. You will go through pines oak Forest and scrub oaks. During our visit we didn't see any type of wildlife which was a bit...