Dwight D. Eisenhower Park
Dwight D. Eisenhower Park is a great park that was a recent find for us! Sitting at 682 acres, this is a large park featuring multiple forested hiking trails that you could easily spend a couple of hours exploring.
We loved the multitude of hiking trails here varying from less than 0.5 miles to 3.2 miles, but wish there was a map to help guide us as we hiked. As hard as we looked, we couldn’t find a single hiking trail map within the park including at the trailheads! Luckily, there were clear trail markers (yellow arrows) on all the trails.
As one might expect, there’s plenty of wildlife – including snakes here. We ran into a harmless ribbon snake crossing the path on the Palmetto Loop Trail!
Important Tip: bring your hiking shoes! We love our Merrell Waterproof Moab hiking shoes. If it’s recently rained you’ll be trekking through some mud and puddles.
This also looks like a great place to fish! It’s best known for catching rainbow trout.
Watch out for puddles if it’s recently rained 
Lots of Palmettos on the Palmetto Loop Trail 
Be sure to check out Deussen Park next door as well! Deussen Park is more of a neighborhood park with picnic tables, playgrounds for children, and open fields.
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