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Alachua Audubon Field Trip: Fox Pen Preserve with Alachua Conservation Trust

  • When: Sunday, October 26, 2025,  8:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Location: Near 10777 Holden Park Road Hawthorne, FL 32640
  • Cost: free

Join Alachua Audubon Society and Alachua Conservation Trust (ACT) at Fox Pen Preserve during Birdability Week. Meet in the parking lot. This event will feature ACT's EcoRover, an all-terrain wheelchair designed to make more trails accessible.

We will traverse the orange trail through longleaf sandhill habitat, flatwoods, wetlands, and mesic hammock and along the shoreline of Moss Lee Lake. Fox Pen Preserve hosts the North Florida Sandhills Grassland Bird Habitat Restoration site where ACT has restored grasses and reintroduced fire through prescribed burns to support species like Northern Bobwhite, Common Nighthawk, and Bachman's Sparrow.

Difficulty: About 2 miles. 1.7 mile loop trail with trail surface that is sandy or mowed grass with some

Directions: The trailhead/parking area is close to 10777 Holden Park Road in Hawthorne. Take SR 20 towards Hawthorne and turn south onto US Hwy 301. Just after the Chevron station, turn left (east) onto 75th Ave (Holden Park Rd) and the Preserve will be about 2.5 miles on your left. Ebird coordinates: 29°33'23.5"N 82°03'42.5"W.

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