Chain of Lakes Park

This place has nice hiking and biking trails, plenty of wildlife, and athletic fields. Fishing is allowed but is catch and release. Beware of alligators though.

Was there for the Chuckewagon 5 k run/ walk. Beautiful trails! Suitable for wheelchairs & ada scooters. Really beauty's place - wish it was dog friendly though.

Very large and spacious park. Park signs say NO pets allowed other than service animals. Also, no golfing in park. Neither an issue for me. Like 3 miles of paved walking trails, lakes, bridges, benches if you need to sit along the way. Wildlife opportunities. 50’ Observation tower, fishing dock, covered pavilions, multiple playground areas with swings! Plenty of parking. For sports, many nice baseball fields, soccer fields and multi use fields. Lots of flora and fauna to be found. Limpkins, great blue herons, ibis, Anahingas and more for your birding. 🐊 gators can be found sunning.

I love this park! If you're a bird lover, this is a great place to come. I enjoyed walking all around the lakes and seeing different types of birds at each one. There are a few benches where you can sit for a while. It was very clean. If you want to see birds, I would suggest going before noon as there is a playground and a baseball field. I would think it could get busy and noisier as the day goes by, but it was very peaceful when I was there. For birders, I saw several anhingas (snake birds), a cormorant, several great blue herons, osprey, limpkin, ibis, blue jays, warblers, red tailed hawks, red shouldered hawks, Carolina wrens, sparrows, robins and cardinals!

Was looking for a nice relaxing park to take a good walk in and Chain of Lakes was perfect. Lots of beautiful scenery, not too busy, and very very peaceful. Saw lots of wildlife, with a vast variety of birds, squirrels, turtles, alligators, and fish. Just was beautiful out there. Plus the tall viewing platform is really nice and gives a wonderful view of the park to one side and the inlet to the other. Gorgeous! Wish we had a park this nice nearby us to take the dog to every week.