Trail Overview
Dinner Island Ranch Wildlife Management Preserve is an easy gravel and packed sand drive. The road can become a little messy after some heavy rain. Roads are typically one, sometimes one and a half, vehicles wide with deep drainage ditches on one or both sides of the road. Be on the lookout for alligators swimming in the water or sunning themselves on the beaches of these ditches. Abundant birds and other wildlife can be seen in the waterways and hammock groves scattered along the land. Extra caution should be taken for free-roaming cattle while passing through the many cattleguards separating sections of this drive. Dinner Island Ranch also serves many hunting opportunities. Hunters are required to check-in and out at the game check section just past the campground. Camping, available for tents and campers, can be reserved for free online. A single picnic table and shade structure is located halfway through the loop for a lunchtime stop.
Difficulty
Dinner Island Ranch is an easy gravel and packed sand drive that can become a little messy after some heavy rain. Roads are typically one and sometimes one and a half vehicles wide with deep drainage ditches on one or both sides of the road. Extra caution should be taken for free roaming cattle once passing through the many cattleguards separating sections of this drive as well as Alligators along the waterways.
