Seagrove Beach is perfect for nature lovers seeking an unspoiled retreat and uncrowded environment. Enjoy canoeing, kayaking, swimming and more in Seagrove.
Seagrove Beach Activities
Seagrove Beach is perfect for nature-lovers seeking an unspoiled retreat. Seagrove offers the extraordinary beach experience. Located on one of Florida's finest sugar white sand beaches and yet offers easy access to great shopping and golf.
Seagrove Beach offers an abundance of recreational activities, such as swimming, sandcastle building, surfing, snorkeling and sunning. Nearby Eastern and Deer Lakes have canoeing, kayaking, picnicking, fishing and boating. For land-lovers, beyond-the-beach activities include nearby hiking and biking trails, golf and tennis. Seagrove Beach is a myriad of antique stores, art galleries, unique shops, and award-winning restaurants.
Eastern Lake Bike/Hike Trail and Deer Lakes State Parks provide an abundance of nature’s treasures.
Eastern Lake Bike/Hike Trail
Walton County is home to the Eastern Lake Bike/Hike Trail, a popular destination for hiking and off-road biking along the Northwest Florida's Gulf Coast. The Eastern Lake Trail was Point Washington State Forest’s first trail system.
The Eastern Lake Bike/Hike Trail has 3.5-, 5.75- and 10-mile loops. Visitors opting to go hiking or biking along the 10-mile loop will pass Eastern Lake.
The Eastern Lake Hike/Bike Trail is one of more than 40 Florida hiking and biking trails featured in the Florida Division of Forestry’s Trailwalker Program. Participants in the Trailwalker Program may qualify to receive a special Trailwalker Patch and certificate after hiking over 10 trails in at least five different Florida state forests.
Deer Lakes State Park
Deer Lake State Park is a 1,920-acre facility named after a freshwater coastal dune lake within its boundaries. The trail access to the Gulf of Mexico opens to a magnificent dune field and to a pristine section of beach. Deer Lake State Park contains 11 distinct natural communities, including beach dune, mesic flatwoods, sandhill, scrub, basin swamp, depression marsh, dome swamp, coastal dune lakes, blackwater stream, estuarine tidal creek, and unconsolidated marine substrate. Blackwater streams are lined with spring azaleas. Summer wildflowers are seen around cypress domes throughout the sand hills and longleaf pine habitat of Deer Lake.
Deer Lake boasts a diversity of plant and wildlife. Rare plant species include cruise’s golden aster, Godfrey’s golden aster; Gulf coast lupine, large-leafed jointweed in oak scrub; and spoon flower along basin swamps at Camp Creek in Deer Lake State Park.