Boyd Hill Nature Preserve - St. Petersburg (FL)

5 /5 Jawana Watson Silvestri: This was a nice outing. They have great walking and biking trails and with the side trails you can easily do 5 miles. A gift shop, restrooms, kids playground, adequate parking, an aviary, water stations along the route, healthy snacks in the gift shop like strawberries, celery, peaches, and other cold snacks. They definitely need more magnets with the preserve on it as I collect magnets. We saw some wildlife, a baby alligator, raccoon, squirrels and an owl that was hooting at one of the caged owls. A worker there said that owl has been coming for a few seasons to probably "mate" and "talk" to one of the other owls. A pretty neat and safe place. Entrance fee is very reasonable.

5 /5 TyLisa Johnson: went to this place for a Saturday morning walk and had no idea it was an entire ✨experience✨ but what an incredible surprise! they have so many trails to choose from. the flora and fauna is so diverse. its a huge place so I doubt youll ever feel like its "crowded." The aviary was also a nice surprise. The birds were gorgeous and you get to read about their backstory! On the main trail theres a wooden swing with a beautiful skyline view. Im in love!

5 /5 Alyssa Hafner: Boyd Hills Raptor fest was fabulous! But in general it’s an awesome park to walk around and be apart of nature. Looking at the birds of prey they have rescued is quite thrilling. Their playground of the kids was fun as well. There is a small fee to walk the trails but it is worth it! It’s a great spot to see baby alligators and bird watch. Boyd Hill also has a TON of programs year round to get involved in. Overall it was a great experience. We will go back to visit the Nature Center as well.

5 /5 Nancy Samuels: This is a lovely place to walk through a natural park. We entered the park at the visitor center at the south end. There are three main trails going north-south. The one on the east follows more closely to the lake. After a while you can cross a pedestrian bridge to a small island with views of St Pete across the water. There were small alligators lounging under the bridge. This island is, I’m guessing, about halfway to the northern tip of the park. If you continue going north after getting back off the island, the trail offers less shade than the beginning of the walk. It gets pretty hot for us, Seattleites. We chose not to go all the way to the northern tip of the park because of the hot sunny trail. After a while you can get back to the middle trail (which also goes north-south), and it has the most shade. Once on the middle trail, we decided to try the western trail going north-south, but it also lacked shade except near the visitor center. It follows close to the western edge of the park, so you see and hear cars which we didn’t enjoy as much.

5 /5 Clear Fives: This preserve is genuinely incredible. Right in the middle of St. Pete youve got a gorgeous mosaic of the nearly all the habitats Florida can offer (though Im biased towards the uplands!) and theyre clearly all lovingly and intelligently maintained. The city and preserve staff have done a wonderful thing here.