Lake Seminole Park — Attraction in Seminole

Love this park. I grew up in the area of this park and have frequented it since I was first old enough to venture to it from my house as a child. I often decide to drive down to Pinellas from my home in Pasco to visit family and friends and will stop in to the park to let my kids play on the playground that I played in when I was but a child. My true love of this park is the 2 mile nature trail that meanders through a nice little patch of woodlands. There are a couple water fountains along the trail which I know of one, if not both are dog friendly with a bowl chained right where the stream from the fountain falls. I've always been a nature lover and I am especially fond of snakes. As a child I would spend my days looking for snakes and wildlife and was never disappointed when I would walk the trail (and the little side trails through the woods which I probably wasn't supposed to) . Lots of great memories for me there. It is one of the better county parks in Pinellas. Great shelters, which can be reserved, or if not reserved, are available on a first come first served basis. The shelters are mostly located around the many ponds in the park and on Lake Seminole itself and have small grills. There is a boat ramp for hitting the lake in your boat or PWC. There is also a rental booth for renting bicycles, and pedal powered trikes/quads for use just about anywhere a road or walkway will take you within the park. I think the trikes are for two and the quads accommodate four people and if I am not mistaken there is what appears to be a small bench seat on the front with child restraints for small children. There may be even more cycles there which I am not remembering. That's about it. It is a truly great park. I highly...

been going to the park for the last 40+ years was just like yesterday I remember when they put the bridge on Brian dairy road and it really was like 30 years ago probably have as many people in the bay area as was in the entire state before the rest of the country moved down and the reason why we have traffic on the weekends and passed by people who are cycling and the one good thing about having a safe drive and already have Pasco county adding to the trail north with the 30+ million people have 2 highways if we ever need to evacuate it would be millions of people and when you are not moving it is going to take 10 times as much gas as normal and the reason why you have the people in the keys that built back up after Andrew and the safest place in their county and it is the local emergency neighborhood shelters because of the years of trying to leave and they ended up being on the road 🛣️ during the storm and everyone has a lot more stronger home then pre everything having to follow up and be Dade county approved shutters on the house and in the first few years they will have paid for themselves in the difference in homeowners insurance , like the way people who moved to NYC and sell the car because it's almost as much as a mortgage or rent even parking spots that have no security the more people who come it's just going to cost the rest of us more especially with the people who are in charge of everything that put 95% of the money with 5% of the...

I went to this park for the first time yesterday. I wanted to sit by the lake and find some peace. That cant happen here, apparently. All of the pavilions were jammed packed with parties. I saw a few benches off to the side but no where to park near them. I drove all the way to the end, where there is plenty of parking, but its 6$ by the boat ramp. I turned around and decided to park near one of the empty benches I saw towards the front of the park. I walked thru a field littered with some trash to get to the bench and sat for all of 3 minutes when a golf cart monitor guy pulled up and said I couldnt park there. When I asked him where I could park to sit on this bench he said I really don't know, and pointed to the nearest Pavilion and said if there's parking over there you can park over there. But that was over a hundred feet away. So I say ok. He offers no directions and drives off, not stopping to pick up any trash on his way, even though he had a trash can on the back of his cart. I leave, but I didnt realize the pavilion he pointed at had to be gotten to through a roundabout way back towards the middle of the park. And I went out towards the entrance and there was no more entrances to turn down to find parking. As I was at the light for Park then, I ended up just leaving. Kinda ruined my experience of visiting a "new...