Starkey Wilderness Preserve

Starkey Wilderness Preserve is a public recreation and nature conservation area located in Pasco County, Florida.

The park includes a system of hiking, bicycling, and equestrian trails, cabins and primitive camping sites, and picnic areas.

It is named after Jay B. Starkey, a cattle rancher who bought the property in 1937 and later donated hundreds of acres.

The area includes sections of pine flatwoods, cypress domes, freshwater marshes, stream and lake swamps, sandhill and scrub over a combined 8,500-acre (34 km2) "wetland ecosystem spread throughout approximately 18,000 acres of conservation lands".

The park is located in Western Pasco County east of New Port Richey.