Bull Creek Cemetery Halloween Hike and Campout with FTA (optional)
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HIKE LEADER: Kathy Durkin 510-872-9201
Gary W. 248-943=5240 (cell)
NOTE: Bring a head lamp for this event, or a flash light, as it will be dark out there! This event will be cancelled if the rains have not stopped and the grounds are all muddy. A notice would be sent out by the day before if we need to do this! We don't want to be hiking in the mud at night!
Event Details: Come as you are or who you would like to be as we venture out to the Bull Creek Cemetery to meet up with ghosts and goblins. Trail maintenance on the primitive orange-blazed hiking section should have been completed today by Florida Trail Assoc. volunteers, so we should be in good shape. You also have the opportunity to camp out at the ranger check station at Bull Creek where our Florida Trail Assoc. volunteers will be camping out.
We will start out on the Florida trail, and then break out towards the old Bull Creek cemetery on unpaved, sandy roads. Our total hiking distance will be about 4.5 miles, over 50% under the open night sky. So don't forget to bring hydration, insect repellent, PPE, and snacks -- and most importantly, a FLASHLIGHT!!!
The trail head for our hike is not visible from 192, and so it is difficult to find if you are unfamiliar with this venue. It is a dirt driveway up on a berm adjacent to the levee on the south side of the road To find the trail head, there are three options to locate the trailhead:
1. In google maps or Waze, type in the address: 12378 E. Irlo Bronson memorial hwy (US-192). Apple maps will drop you about 50 feet east of the trailhead.
2. Use the GPS coord(s); ( 28.116917, -80.932467 )
3. The trail head is located 2.9 miles west of the intersection of deer park rd. and US-192.
If anyone would like to carpool with me from Sam's Club on 192, we can arrange that, because it might be dark out.
CAMP OUT (no charge for camping out this evening!):
The ranger check station is located at:
Bull Creek WMA
7525 Crabgraas Rd, · Saint Cloud, FL (see photo of check station)
If you are camping you will need to bring typical camping gear. Some people like to use bug repellant.
28.082692503563678, -80.96135697827222
If you have questions, please contact Bill Alexander, 321-693-7369 or at bill.m.alexander@gmail.com.
You should plan on setting up your campsite before our hike, and make sure that you are at our trail head before 7PM, It is a 12.5 mile ride between the camp site and our trail head. It is almost all fully paved road, and it will be very dark out there, so perhaps get out there in the day light.