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Hike · Hells Bay Canoe trailhead

Hells Bay Canoe Trail

Distance
5.4 mi
Vertical
66 ft
Summit
10 ft
Difficulty
Easy

Hells Bay is a series of shallow bays, creeks, and glades in the southwestern reaches of Everglades National Park, set inland from Cape Sable and connected to the Florida Bay backcountry by a network of marked canoe routes. The bay itself is broad and shallow — most of it under…

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Aerial view of the labyrinth of shallow bays, glades, and mangrove islands that make up Hells Bay in the southwestern Everglades.
Everglades NPS from Homestead, Florida, United States · Public domain
A second aerial of Hells Bay showing the mottled pattern of small ponds, sawgrass, and mangrove that the canoe trail threads through to reach the open bay.
Everglades NPS from Homestead, Florida, United States · Public domain
Sawgrass and cattail at the edge of an open backcountry pond in Everglades National Park, the kind of glade the canoe route crosses on its way south.
Ryan Barrios · CC BY-SA 4.0
A mangrove shore on a wide tidal channel of the Everglades, the closed canopy that walls the canoe trail for most of its run.
Marc Ryckaert (MJJR) · CC BY 3.0

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