Clockwise from top left: The Ormond Scenic Loop and Trail passes through the Tomoka Marsh Aquatic Preserve, which protects 368 acres of inland waterways and wetlands and is popular for fishing, canoeing, and kayaking. The North Peninsula State Park beach access area is near the junction of State Route A1A and High Bridge Road. High Bridge Road runs alongside Bulow Creek.
Tree Drive, the road’ s name changes to Old Dixie Highway. The next 5 miles were once part of a 1915-1929 network of auto trails that created a corridor connecting the upper Midwest to Miami.
After passing through a small residential area of big houses, the road gently curves its way through another tunnel of moss-heavy oaks. Slow down. Just ahead on the right is a small pullout for the Dummett Sugar Mill Ruins, the remains of a sugar and rum processing factory built in 1825.
Old Dixie Highway straightens out. You’ ll pass the tomb for James Ormond II, who migrated to Florida in the early 1800s and ran a thriving plantation in the area. Then Bulow Creek State Park, which protects the largest stand of southern live oaks on Florida’ s east coast.
Turn right on Walter Boardman Lane and ride 1.2 miles through a dense tropical forest of oaks, pines, cypress, and palmetto. Make a
sharp right onto High Bridge Road for the curviest section of the entire loop, which lasts for a little over a half mile. Most of High Bridge Road runs alongside Bulow Creek and feels a world away from the hustle and bustle of Bike Week.
After crossing over the Halifax River again, turn right on John Anderson Drive. The first 1.5 miles are through more undeveloped land, then the next 7.5 miles go through a residential area with houses of all shapes and sizes. Some facing the river are mansions that would make Tony Montana proud.
Turn left on Granada Boulevard, ride east for a half mile, and turn left on Ocean Shore Boulevard( Route A1A). Now you’ re heading north along the Atlantic coast. For the first few miles houses and condos block your view, but once you reach Al Weeks Sr. North Shore Park, the next 5.7 miles give you an unobstructed ocean view. Welcome to paradise!
At the junction with High Bridge Road, there’ s a beach access parking area on the right. Go ahead, get your toes wet. If you turn left on High Bridge, in 0.2 mile you will have completed the loop. You can continue riding west and enjoy the marsh and woodlands scenery in reverse. Or you can hightail it south and rejoin the festivities at Bike Week.
RESOURCES:
• Florida Tourism: VisitFlorida. com
• Daytona Bike Week: OfficialBikeWeek. com
• Ormond Beach: OrmondChamber. com
• Ormond Scenic Loop and Trail: OrmondScenicLoopAndTrail. com
• Tomoka State Park: FloridaStateParks. org
• Bulow Creek State Park: FloridaStateParks. org
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