Honeymoon Island State Park: Rotary Centennial Trail, Shelling & Osprey Trail

About this adventure

Providing four miles of pristine Gulf Coast shoreline just west of Dunedin, Honeymoon Island State Park is Florida's most visited state park and an idyllic winter destination. Cooler weather makes winter the peak season for hiking the 2.5-mile Osprey Trail, which meanders through one of the few remaining virgin slash pine flatwoods in South Florida; look up to spot active bald eagle nests, nesting ospreys, and great horned owls. Along the coast, winter tidal flats offer spectacular beachcombing for olive shells, lightening whelks, and sand dollars. The Rotary Centennial Nature Center features interactive touch tables and children's discovery displays explaining barrier island ecology. The park offers expansive beach parking, outdoor rinse stations, playground areas, wheelchair beach mobi-mats, and picnic pavilions with panoramic Gulf vistas.