Lake Kissimmee State Park
Lake Kissimmee State Park is east of Lake
Wales. There are several miles of
walking trails there, and we went there to hike on March 14, but since
it was 87 degrees that afternoon, we cut that part of the
outing short. We probably only walked about a mile.
The part we really enjoy was the "Cow
Camp". This was a small section of the park that emulated
an 1870s era cow camp, which was a place that "cow
hunters" stayed and penned their cattle. Back in that
era, these camps dotted the Florida landscape from St. Augustine in
the northeast to what is now Fort Myers, in the southwestern Gulf
Coast. A man was there playing the role of a cow hunter and
taught us all about how life was back then.
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