The Teague Hammock Preserve is located across the street from the Paleo Hammock Preserve. It does not have its own parking lot. It's a 300 acre preserve through which a trail runs through small prairie hammocks that used to be common in this area. Birds that frequent the preserve include barred owl, quail, swallow tail kite, Sandhill Cranes, Wood Storks, and Great Blue Herons. Turkeys, hogs, and deer have also been spotted here. Plant life found here includes Florida elm, sugar berry, live oak, laurel oak, cabbage palm, strangler fig, and potato trees. Of interest, the largest known Simpson Stopper tree at a height of 59 feet is found here. There has also been archeological finds from the Native People who inhabited the area thousands of years ago. This a really beautiful preserve but the bugs flying at my head were overwhelming. I don't know if there is a better time to visit this preserve. It is also very remote and I didn't have any cell phone service for a couple of miles around the preserve. There is no water or restroom so plan accordingly. On my walk I saw lovely Purple Passion flowers, a snake who was too shy to be photographed, numerous butterflies, and many Eastern luber grasshoppers. This would be a great place to explore if I didn't have bugs constantly attacking my head. This seems to be a favorite place for horseback riding based on the horseshoe prints I saw and the posts to tie up your horse at the trail entrance. read more

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