Fun Things To Do in Jupiter – Riverbend Park

3/10/22

Things to do in Jupiter at Riverbend Park

Take The Trapper Nelson Challenge!

(Photo: KaneCenter.org)

Anyone adventurous enough to take the Trapper Nelson Challenge with JUPITER OUTDOOR CENTER guides is following – make that paddling – in the path of one of Jupiter’s most famous and mysterious residents.

To register for the things to do in Jupiter adventure, click here.

Your voyage on the Loxahatchee River at Riverbend Park to Jonathan Dickinson State Park with JOC guides relives the weekly trip for supplies taken by the Legend of the Loxahatchee in the early 1930s. You’ll nose through ribbon-like channels, some just six feet wide. Snook, deer, great blue herons and ‘gators are regular visitors.

You’ll pass orchids, cypress knees and Spanish Moss as you paddle to the swamp-surrounded homestead Trapper set up when he was just 23. Skinning ‘gators, selling furs, trapping animals, running a zoo and growing citrus kept the blue-eyed New Jersey native busy for 35 years.

Birding

If you want to get outdoors, social distance, nurture with nature – check out Riverbend Park.

Expect to see scrub-jays, roseate spoonbills, pelicans, wood storks, limpkins, sandhill cranes, snail kites, herons, egrets — maybe a bald eagle or two.

To register for JUPITER OUTDOOR CENTER Loxahatchee River tour, click here.

Hints on birdwatching on your things to do in Jupiter tour:

• LISTEN: Use your ears as much as your eyes, especially in a densely forested area
• STOP: Scan the branches and ground slowly, birds are great at melding into the background
• BRING A FIELD GUIDE: The book will help you quickly identify birds
• BE AWARE OF POSITION OF SUN: The best photos are taken with the sun at your back.