Kingfishers Landing - Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge
Kingfishers Landing is the starting point for the red and green trails in the Okefenokee.
Kingfisher Landing to Bluff Lake is eight miles along a channel originally cut for peat mining and across open lakes and a waterway lined with pitcher plants and spatterdock.Â
Kingfisher Landing to Maul Hammock is a long day of paddling 12 miles through scrub-shrub, marsh, and small lakes. the non-mile stretch between Maul Hammock and Big Water goes through marsh, a narrow/closed channel, and into a wider river channel surrounded by cypress.Â
Location: 13 miles north of downtown Folkston on US Route 1/GA Hwy 121
Contributor: Ben Thornton
Updated Mar 18, 2025 by Ben Thornton
Updated Mar 18, 2025 by Ben Thornton