


While shade is at a premium, the botanical diversity makes this a worthy destination for an early morning hike, with the bonus of a day at the beach or a tour of the sea turtle rehabilitation center at Loggerhead Park – the Marinelife Center of Juno Beach – to make it a well-rounded visit. There are two loop trails, Juno Dunes West and Juno Dunes East, flanking US 1. Juno Beach is a small seaside community north of West Palm Beach, and this preserve encompasses a nice chunk of it - 576 acres – between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway. Diversity is the name of the game along the trail at Juno Dunes, where you’ll find not just coastal scrub atop the Atlantic Coastal Ridge but an interesting mosaic of wetlands among the swale between ancient dunes.
