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Wright Lake is located approximately 25 miles from the Gulf of Mexico in an area known as the Forgotten Coast. Wright Lake and nearby Hickory Landing provide easy access to the Apalachicola River, known for its sport fishing, boating and paddling. You will never run out of things to do!
Wright Lake is a quiet scenic lakefront recreation area that offers a host of amenities and activities for campers and day-trippers. The area around the clear, spring-fed lake offers both a day-use area for swimming, picnicking, and hiking, and a campground in a beautiful forest setting along one portion of the lakeshore. It is perfect for fishing and boating. The campground bathhouse includes flush toilets and hot showers. Picnic tables and grills are scattered among trees with views of the lake.
Hikers can enjoy a 4.6-mile trail that winds through several different ecosystems in the area, and there is a short 0.2 mile loop that circles the lake. Nearby Hickory Landing offers boating access to Owl Creek and the Apalachicola River.
The campground includes 1 electric and 18 nonelectric campsites with picnic tables, grills, tent pads and fire rings. The recreation area is fairly level and easily accessible. The comfort station has flush toilets and warm showers.
You will find peace and quiet on a ridge in the Apalachicola Savannahs. The longleaf pine dominates this open landscape where wiregrass, or sometimes palmetto, covers the forest floor. Swamps and savannahs are commonly interspersed with the longleaf community.
The Apalachee Savannahs Scenic Byway is part of a nationwide program to provide viewing opportunities of well-managed and pleasing forest landscapes. This scenic drive is an excellent way to see the forest, as it showcases grassy, open savannahs sporting the most diverse collection of wildflowers in Florida's Panhandle.
Nearby, historic Fort Gadsden played an important role in Florida history. Located along the Apalachicola River, this interpretive area offers detailed information about the site and its history along with trails, river access, and a picnic area. Detailed interpretive information in the form of kiosks and signage lead you through the site of both forts and the cemetery where the victims from 1816 are buried.
Refunds can not be processed on site. All refunds must go through Recreation.gov.
From the intersection of CR 379 and SR 65 in Sumatra, drive south on SR 65 for 2.5 miles. Turn right onto FR 101 (Wright Lake Rd) and follow it west for 1.5 miles to the Wright Lake Recreation Area entrance on the right. Turn right and follow the entrance road up to the kiosk.
Nice campground. This has bathrooms with showers. Has water at some sites does not have electric and has quiet time from 10 pm till 8am so no generators allowed to run no exceptions. Bath house definitely needs cleaning. I could not imagine camping here in the hotter months without electric and no generators during quiet time. Beautiful Lake with the normal warning watch for alligators and snakes when swimming. There are camp sites located near the lake but no view of lake because of overgrowth. The showers have timers which saves water just have to keep mashing the timer knobs
I stayed at site 15 and the pine trees were sparse enough in that spot that my Starlink worked quite well. Verizon was unusable. Campground is generally beautifully wooded and was not crowded and the host (from Michigan) was friendly. Water drinkable. Bathrooms clean with free hot shower and flush toilets. Both the white and blue blazed trails are well marked but getting a little overgrown in some spots, but still a great hike - especially where you walk across the log foot bridge. Keep an eye out for snakes, gators and wear bug repellent in case of ticks and chiggers.
Great spot, big sites , clean hot showers, super nice camp host. Water only, no electric . Generator for power . Stayed for a week at site 9
