Name: 🚲 🐎Biking thru Paynes Prairie on the🦬 Gainesville Hawthorne Trail🚲
Start: 2025-12-17T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-17T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Boulware Springs Park

**My favorite bike trail over the years has been the 32 mile Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail. We had ridden this trail several times in the past before I got active in hiking.** [Gainesville Hawthorne Trail](https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/gainesville-hawthorne-state-trail)

**I am going to ride it out and back on Wednesday the 17th. If you want to join me you are more than welcome to. I am going to stop at a few spots along the way that may or may not be of interest to you. I won't be attempting to keep pace with anyone who is naturally faster. Conversely, I don't expect anyone to lag behind just to keep me company. Helmets are recommended.**
**I plan to stop midway in the quaint town of Hawthorne for late lunch / early dinner** [The Wrap Shack](https://www.thewrapsshack.com/#).

**After the ride I am headed to my campsite at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. I will be there the 17th and 18th.**
[Paynes Prairie Preserve Stare Park](https://floridahikes.com/paynes-prairie-preserve-state-park/) **We are hiking on the 18th. Hike is posted separately**

**Meet at the Boulware Springs trailhead in Gainesville, noon on the 17th.**

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***Possible risks from participation include, but are not limited to:***
**Injury from a trip & fall, venomous snakes, stinging insects, venomous spiders, wildlife encounters, heat stroke, hypothermia, noxious vegetation, weather related injury, insect or airborne transmissible virus and disease, smoke inhalation, wildfire, falling trees, drowning**

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