Visitor Information (updated
yearly)
No Daily-Use Permit currently required. A $2 day-use fee is charged
by the campground concessionaire at the Palmdale Campground. To hunt
or fish you must possess the appropriate license
and permit.
The recreation area at Palmdale, off US 27, provides RV and tent camping
and a camp store as well as an improved boat ramp, restroom facilities,
canoe and kayak rental, and livery service. Daytime use area with pond
and picnic tables. View the campground
fee schedule (pdf file).
Map of Fisheating Creek
WMA - pdf file
Public access, other than by foot, bicycle or boat is prohibited,
except registered and licensed vehicles may be operated within the
Palmdale campground. Area entry is permitted
only through designated entrances (see
map - pdf file). The use of airboats is restricted to the area depicted
on the hunt map (pdf
file). A no-cost airboat use permit available from FWC
(561-625-5122) is required for all airboats operating in the management
area.
Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area is located in Glades County.
Visitors may access the west sector of the management area at the Fisheating
Creek Campground. The campground is on US 27, approximately 19 miles
northwest of Moore Haven, two miles north of the intersection of Hwy
29 and one mile south of Palmdale. Boaters may enter the eastern sector
of the management area at the boat ramp located on Hwy 78, one mile
south of Lakeport. Hikers may enter the east sector through the access
road located two miles south of Lakeport on Hwy 78.
View a location map - pdf
file
Additional wildlife
viewing sites in the vicinity.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains rest areas around Lake Okeechobee,
and there is a designated trail on the dike.
Fort Myers (46 miles west), Cape Coral (56 miles west), Palmdale (1
mile west of campground), and Lakeport (1 mile north).
