Paddleboard & kayak · Florida
Paddleboard and kayak spots across Florida — where to put in, what the carry is like, and what the water is doing. Before you load the car.
Launch access
Distance from the car to the water, what you cross to get there, whether a cart survives it, and if you can unload at the launch before parking.
Craft & level
Which craft a place actually suits, with difficulty rated per route rather than smeared across the whole location.
Conditions
How much wind, tide, current and boat traffic govern a trip here — and which of them decides your morning.
Field checks
What has been confirmed on the water, and when. Where nobody has been yet, the page says so instead of going quiet.
Why PaddlePin
One park, three put-ins, three different carries. The one you pick is the decision you actually make — so each launch gets its own card, its own sources and its own confidence.
How far the carry is and what you cross. Whether a cart rolls or you shoulder it. Whether you can drop the boat at the water first. How far the rinse is from the launch, not from the gate.
An unchecked fact shows as an open question rather than quietly going missing. A shorter page would look more finished and tell you less before a drive.
24 open questions across the launches published so far. Every one of them is on the page it belongs to, with a way for a paddler who has been there to answer it. How we research
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Florida Keys · Monroe County · Florida Bay / Atlantic coastal waters
A compact Florida Keys paddle with a 1.5-mile mangrove-tunnel loop, lagoon, grassy flats, sandbars and short open-ocean sections.
Florida Keys · Monroe County · Mangrove trails / Largo Sound
A dedicated mangrove-paddling network in Key Largo with several miles of trails leading through mangroves and into Largo Sound.
Florida Keys · Monroe County · Lignumvitae Key waters / Lower Matecumbe seagrass flats and mangrove creeks
A 2.84-mile roundtrip from Indian Key Fill across shallow Keys flats to Lignumvitae Key, with optional mangrove-creek exploration and an island botanical/historic destination.
PaddlePin for iPhone records the route, drops the pins and holds the photos — a journal of the water you have actually been on.
This guide is free to read. PaddlePin for iPhone is a separate $4.99 app that records your paddles — it does not import the routes on this site.
