20 Mile Bend

[Okeechobee Cur]

Dose any one no if you can put in at 20 mile bend feder canal.I no the used to have a boat ramp.And the water catchment arie on southern and flying cow rd.can you run it.Legel no sneaking to old to go to jail

[jaxbrian]

if you're talking about running locksahatchee...no airboats allowed.

[Rich Andrews]

the ramp your talking about I believe is gone. No on airboats as well.

[cowboy]

221 square fun filled miles of NPS:
Hikes,
Bikes,
Birdglasses, and nature classes.
Boardwalks, and Canoe trails.

Eco-ranger indoctrination stations.

http://www.fws.gov/loxahatchee/Visitor/

[Rich Andrews]

I hear ya Cowboy, a bunch of BS....I wish the feds lost funding down here and had to give it up to the state.Then we'd have a chance to get it opened up.

[Muddyduck]

The canoe guy that got lost and also had diabetes was glad to see that sometimes they will make an exception for airboats when Don Kirk went and pulled his butt out of there. Bruce Ward is trying to get them to allow frogging in the NPS areas. He has data that shows the frogs in those area have higher mercury levels because they are not harvested on a regular basis. The mercury is passed on up the food chain. What I really don't understand is that you can use a bass boat on the south entrance on Lox Road, but not an airboat.

[Okeechobee Cur]

Well that sucks grew up in that arie used to run dogs there before the flooded it when it was orange groves and cane.moved to okee and havent been that way for some time.Used to be good speak fishing at the feeder canal.Will the let you frog from a canooe.

[bwright]

Okeechobee Cur yes there is a boat ramp at 20 mile bend on the north end of conservation area #1 > A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

No airboat; Boating, fishing, and canoeing are permitted in the perimeter canal at both entrances please go use the million dollar ramp that sportsmen fought to keep after losing it for a few years because of STA 1 east

[Okeechobee Cur]

bwright i road that way looking.The old ramp was past the feeder canal now there's a gate up and you cant go in and the feeder canal has sighs up that say no trespassing beyond this point.Wher is the ramp that you are talking about and dose it lead back to the old spot.

[Ford]

are you talking about the gravel ramp just west of the old blue trestle brigde ? the canal that runs beside old SR80 , heading towards canal point ? i have never seen a sign that says no airboats

[Okeechobee Cur]

When you go over the bridge turn left straght where the cops shotting range is if you could go past that gard gate there is a boat ramp to the right side leads back to the old marsh.Man the was some of the best fishing back there.

[Croc1]

picnicking is illegal