There are now just 121 days left in
Hillsborough County’s 2024-25 Hiking Spree
.
Delayed by Hurricane Milton, the ninth annual celebration of the county’s more than 300 miles of marked trails kicked off on Dec. 1 and wraps on April 30; it includes nearly two dozen trails as far north as Cypress Creek and south to the Cockroach Creek Greenway Nature Preserve in Ruskin.
The
—available to browse via
or
—range in difficulty from easy and paved to strenuous with rough terrain and in distance with the shortest coming in at just six-tenths of a mile (Clayton Park in Brandon) and the longest clocking it at 6.5-miles (North Hiking Trail in Wimauma’s Little Manatee River State Park). Some hikes are free, while some parks charge a nominal entry fee.
Anyone who
and then completes at least eight trails will get a commemorative sticker and choice of one reward (
this year’s loot includes a brass medallion, embroidered patch or pet bandana
).
And you don’t have to hike alone either.