Myakka River SP Field Trip

Today the park has 37,000 acres with the majestic Myakka River flowing through 58 square miles of one of Florida's oldest and largest state parks. Flora and fauna abound with ebird reporting 256 specie sightings.  After paying $4 for single drivers or $6 for loaded cars, we will gather at the first bridge on the left side. Look for our sign up sheet. Carpools can be independently formed at the usual gathering and parking place in the Kings Hwy Wal-Mart parking lot across from Culver’s (385 Kings Hwy) off I-75, Exit 170.

Prior to 1850, the Myakka River was the Asternal River on English maps. A Seminole Indian reportedly told a surveyor in the 1850s that the name of the river was Myakka. Between the 1850s and the 1930s, cattle grazed on dry prairie, a vast land of grasses, forbs, palmetto and other low shrubs with thousands of scattered wetlands. In 1910 Bertha…