Keeping Tabs on Local Trails

Park & Land Management

With available Off Road trails disappearing every year, we at Jeep Off-Road Adventures feel it is important to make timely and valuable information on permitted trail riding available to the Jeeping community.


Jeeps from The South Florida Jeep Club and Caloosa Jeepers enjoying the trails at Bear Island Unit

And while these trails represent a place we can drive our Jeeps, this is also a place where we need to be responsible and show respect for the privileged access. After all these are valuable and cherished environments not to be spoiled.

So, to this end we have setup an index page to keep track of access and land management issues for Big Cypress Preserve and Bear Island Unit. Brief updates will be posted directly to the blog while detailed reports and useful reference material will be added and updated regularly to the index page.

Our hope is the information will make wheeling more enjoyable by making access and compliance to the trails easier to understand.

Food Truck Invasion Meetup
at Quiet Waters

Event Reports

Organized by Trail Rated Events, the Jeep Meetup at the Quiet Waters Food Truck Invasion is a great opportunity to grab a unique culinary creation and check out some unique Jeep creations. Organizers have conveniently carved out a spot up front right next to the food trucks, reserved just for Jeeps!

Meetups are great a way to check out the tricked out, get an issue all figured out, and to find out when a trail ride is setting out.

Click here for the Motive Image photo album for this event

Chill’n @ Lucky Cole’s Outpost

Event Reports

Just a little ways down the east end of Loop Road, among the scattered bits of old Florida is Lucky Cole’s Outpost. Owned and operated by professional photographer “Lucky” Cole, it’s a respite from the restraints of overly civilized living. Often a destination for Harley riders, Lucky and his oasis played host to Jeeps form the Sugar Shakers Motors Club and the Greater Florida Jeep Trail Team. Ahhh… not a bad Father’s Day Weekend.

More photos at the Motive Image Album.


Get your art side up… in a Jeep


Looking for the arty-funky feel… yah it’s here… you can’t miss it


It may be super hot out but the beer’s cold, foods good and the roof sprinklers on to keep the incinerating sun from vaporizing us


Gun range? Yep – it’s a Florida thang


Soaking all the heat out before hitting the trails again.

Father’s Day Weekend Ride

Event Reports

Sometimes the biggest challenge in wheeling is not the terrain but just finding the time and a place close enough for everyone to get together and toss a little mud around. Happy to say this weekend was the right time and a point just off Alligator Alley was the right place.

A huge thanks to the Greater Florida Jeep Trails Team for having us in their company on this ride. Great choice in location, it had a pleasantly remote feel and was peppered with plenty of cool surprises.



More Photo’s at Motive Image Studios – Ride Album

Tap Shack – Jeep Meetup

Event Reports

Jeep Off Road Adventures dropped in on the Tap Shack meet up with the guys from Jeeps Gone Wild. As the lot cleared out by night’s end, some of the night owls got a little practice with wheel climbing.


An XJ (Cherokee) rests its front driver side tire on a built up TJ fitted out for rock cawling. A cool trick on its own but made a lot harder as the XJ has the smaller tires and stiffer suspension. Nicely done!

If you have a spare hour or two on a Thursday night, come on out and get an eye full of their’s and everyone else’s rigs. Stay a little late and watch it get a little edgy.

To see some of their off road exploits and find out where the next meetup is click the Jeeps Gone Wild logo below to their facebook page.