The Shingle Creek Trail is located at the northern boundary of Hunter's Creek. It leads into the 7700-acre Shingle Creek Management Area, the headwaters of the Everglades watershed. The creek itself  is the major water source for Lake Tohopekaliga, part of the Kissimmee chain of lakes. From those lakes, water flows south to Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades.

Shingle Creek is home to a wide variety of wildlife. It provides a home for wetland birds such as the sandhill crane, wood stork, snowy egret, osprey, and tricolor heron. It is also home to deer, racoons, opossums, bobcats, and other mammals.

Much of the Shingle Treek Trail is on power-line roads travelling through wetlands and pine woods. A scenic trail with bridges and boardwalks winds beside the creek itself, ending at Hunter's Creek Middle School.

I took these images on a leisurely Saturday-afternoon hike of about five miles, starting at the entrance at the northern boundary of Hunter's Creek and taking both branches of the power-line road as well as the scenic creek trail. You can also access the trail from Hunter's Creek Middle School, where it begins with the scenic trail.