[1] It is protected as a Florida State Park and occupies a 29.2-mile (47.0 km) abandoned portion of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Miami Subdivision through Central Florida's Green Swamp area.

Also sighted are white-tailed deer, Florida gopher tortoises, American alligators, raccoons and nine-banded armadillos.

Activities include walking, running, inline skating, hiking, horseback riding, biking, and viewing wildlife.

Florida state parks are open between 8 a.m. and sundown every day of the year (including holidays).

This line carried the Silver Meteor between Coleman and Auburndale until 1988, and had a bridge under SR 50.