District owned lands offer a wide variety of recreational uses for the public.
The wildlife management areas within the Kissimmee River Restoration project offer recreational pursuits from casual day hiking and photographs through natural areas of native bird and wildlife habitat to special permitted hunting and fishing. These same public areas are laced with water trails suitable for canoes to airboat exploration. Camping, by permit, is limited to primitive sites at different locations along the Kissimmee Rivers and it tributaries. Hiking, horseback riding, biking are accepted means to travsuers many of these public areas listed in our land use guide. The public use guide issued by the District identifies the Okeechobee Service Center s service area as unique to many Florida recreational uses.