South Lake Howard Nature Park — Attraction in Winter Haven

This gem is one of the best places to visit in Winter Haven. It's clean, maintained. It features a nicely paved path for walking, biking, and has a wooden bridge with various docks for some light fishing. There is always plenty of parking and has restrooms. For dog lovers, there are provided bags for cleanup near the restrooms.

Birds of all kinds can be seen, as well as turtles and rabbits. Across the main road is another dock overlooking Lake Howard, where I have spotted a gator sunbathing, and various larger and smaller birds that prefer the larger lake section.

I often take the family here to walk, run, scooter and play. The kids love to roll down the "big" hill. Standing from the bridge and docks provide beautiful relaxing scenery.

For train lovers, there is an Amtrak track nearby and the kids always love to stop and watch...

I just recently moved from Hillsborough County and then I was in Pinellas County for a couple of months and I loved the amount of nature trails, beaches, disc, golf courses a long swamps and beaches, and just being in nature in general. I've been feeling cabin fever since I live and work remotely so I'm in the same house all day during the week except for trying to leave a few hours each day and find some stuff to do on the weekends and it can get pretty monotonous. My sister and I went here on a short little walk just to check it out and it was honestly really nice. It was quiet, peaceful. It was close enough to the road where you could still hear the cars by. Honestly that's to be expected. I feel like at this point. It was clean and had some very naturing color tones to it and I definitely think that will be going back...

Beautiful place, quite, peaceful, secure, wheelchair accessible, clean restrooms, different trails, good to work out, to biking, good for kids, a lot of wild life. Longest trail is 1 mile. It's a passive park, no cost, no restaurants, food or beverage. It's an awesome park, but you'll see some trash around, and that's sad, because almost all trash is plastic; bad for the wildlife. I wonder if there's no personel to pick up the garbage, because of the Covid19. Even though, it's a nice place to visit. I wish the city of Winter Haven start to clean this awesome park. Highly recommended place for the family or dating. Open from...