Long Creek Nature Preserve is located at 1050 Palm Harbor Parkway, near Florida Park Drive and across the canal from the Palm Harbor Yacht Club. The new park contains a path and boardwalk to new canoe/kayak launches into Long Creek and College Waterway, a fishing pier along College Waterway with floating dock for boat mooring, and an entrance to the site with a parking area.
The Long Creek Nature Preserve is about nine acres in size, connected to the 225-acre Long Creek Basin. Located between neighborhoods that border Long Creek and Big Mulberry Branch Creek natural corridors, the new nature preserve provides access to the City’s saltwater canal system, and will eventually facilitate access to the Pellicer Creek Aquatic Preserve and other regional attractions. The City plans to build an Environmental Education Center at the preserve in the future.