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Outdoors in Alva

29 miles of trails in Alva

About 13% of Alva is conserved land, roughly 1,483 acres. There are about 29 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Caloosahatchee Regional Park (6.1 mi), Hickey Creek Wildlife and Environmental Area (3.3 mi), and Hickey's Creek Mitigation Park (1.3 mi).

Conserved land
13%
1,483 of 11,745 acres
Trails
29 mi
1.6 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
438 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
0.0 mi
Lakes & rivers
1
3 boat launches

What kind of outdoors town is Alva?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

This week on the trails

Best day for a walk: Friday

90°, chance showers and thunderstorms, 61% chance of rain.

Fri90° 75°61% rain
Sat90° 74°81% rain
Sun92° 73°82% rain
Mon91° 73°68% rain
Tue89° 72°76% rain
Wed88° 72°80% rain
The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
★ What stands out · Places to walk

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The longest trail network is Caloosahatchee Regional Park, with 6.1 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Caloosahatchee Regional Park

Nature preserve
294 acres6.1 mi of trail
Oxbow Trail LoopPine Flatwoods Trail LoopRiver Hammock Trail LoopSaw Palmetto Trail Loop+1
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto Parking Lot #2

Hickey Creek Wildlife and Environmental Area

Nature preserve
222 acres3.3 mi of trail
North Marsh Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Hickey's Creek Mitigation Park

Nature preserve
83 acres1.3 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗

Telegraph Creek Preserve

Managed by Lee County Parks and Recreation
123 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
All 6 parks & preserves
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Caloosahatchee Regional Park294 acres · 6.1 mi of trail
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Hickey Creek Wildlife and Environmental Area222 acres · 3.3 mi of trail
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Hickey's Creek Mitigation Park83 acres · 1.3 mi of trail
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Telegraph Creek Preserve123 acres · Lee County Parks and Recreation
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Alva Community Park9 acres
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Alva Boat Ramp2 acres
Who protects it

1,483 conserved acres

Who manages Alva’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

County1,256 ac
State fish & wildlife227 ac
Local Conservation Area · 885 acLocal Other or Unknown · 371 acState Conservation Area · 227 ac
The biggest protected places
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Alva Scrub Preserve
Local Conservation Area
County481Open
Caloosahatchee Regional Park
Local Other or Unknown
County289Open
Daniels Preserve at Spanish Creek
Local Conservation Area
County245Open
Hickey Creek Mitigation Park Wildlife and Environmental Area
State Conservation Area
State fish & wildlife227Restricted
Telegraph Creek Preserve
Local Conservation Area
County123Open
Hickey's Creek Mitigation Park
Local Other or Unknown
County82Open
Persimmon Ridge Preserve
Local Conservation Area
County36Open
Things to do

34 places to go in Alva

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Campgrounds in Alva
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Site 10In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 11In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 12In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 14In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 15In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 16In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 17In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 18In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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21 more campgrounds
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Site 19In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 20In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 21In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 23In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 24In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 25In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 5In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 6In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 7In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 8In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site 9In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site E1In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site E2In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site G1In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site G13In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site G2In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site G22In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site G3In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site G4In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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Site H1In Caloosahatchee Regional Park
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W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam Campground (North)
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Trails & water

6 named trails and 1 lakes & rivers

Named trails
Unpaved · 2.5 mi
Oxbow Trail Loop0.9 mi
Pine Flatwoods Trail Loop0.9 mi
North Marsh Trail0.9 mi
River Hammock Trail Loop0.9 mi
Saw Palmetto Trail Loop0.7 mi
Shoreline Trail0.5 mi
Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Biking & sports

0.0 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

0.0 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.0 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
2Baseball
2Tennis
1Basketball

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

Next door

Alva and its neighbors

Alva has the second most mapped trails of the 3 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConservedParks
Alva12.6%6
Olga4%3
Lehigh Acres1.8%7

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Alva neighbors.

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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US. Measured against the Census town boundary. Forecast: National Weather Service.

How we measure

"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20.6-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what’s typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren’t recorded.

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