We're staying at the KOA about 1/2 mile from a Lake Okeechobee dike access point. It's an easy ride but a little tricky getting across the junction where Rt 441 t-bones Rt 78. Sometimes the traffic is light but other times it's like rush hour in Washington DC! But then your on the dike and the excitement calms down.
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| View of dike from KOA entrance. |
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| Ramp up to dike trail and access to boat ramp. |
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| Our trikes just fit through that left access gap! |
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| This is a fishing lake. I've never seen a sailboat on the lake other then when we transiting on the OWW. |
I had thought about riding all the way around Okeechobee but on closer inspection unpaved 45 miles or so aren't really a trikes forte. The unpaved section has very long stretches of two track with thick grass in the middle and large gravel/rocks in the tracks.
From our access point there is about a 5 mile ride westward until the dike trail spills out on to Rt78.
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| End of the ride westward. |
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Sharing Rt 78 with big trucks.
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I rode on Rt78 for about 30sec and had the closest pass ever. It wasn't the big rigs it was some ass in a pickup with utility trailer. With a wide open road he let that trailer pass within an inch.
