About Us: Hours / Directions / Location
Admission to both the Educational Center and the Preserve
is free.
Center
Mission
Our mission is to empower citizens to improve their quality of life and establish a connection with their environment through research-based educational programs focused on natural, cultural and historical resources.
- Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education
Center
3940 Keystone Road
Tarpon Springs, FL 34688 gmap
- Email: brookercreek@pinellascounty.org
- Phone: (727)
453-6800
- Fax: (727)
453-6801
- Educational Center Hours:
Thursday – Saturday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
and Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Preregistration for classes, programs and hikes:
Preregister here
- Preserve and Wildland Hiking Trail Hours:
Open 7 days a week, 7:00 am to time posted, approximately one hour
before sunset.
Daily closing time is posted at the entrance to
the Preserve and at the hiking trailheads.
- Equestrian Trails and The Friends Trail Hours:
Open 7 days a week, 7:00 am to time posted, approximately one hour
before sunset.
- Holiday Hours:
Brooker Creek Preserve and Weedon Island Preserve are closed on Dec. 25 and the day AFTER Thanksgiving, in addition the educational centers are closed on all county observed holidays.
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Driving Directions:
- From South Tampa:
Follow the Courtney Campbell Causeway (SR 60) west and turn north (right) onto McMullen Booth Road (CR 611). The name of this road changes to East Lake Road north of Tampa Road (CR 752). Continue north to Keystone Road (CR 582) and turn east (right). Travel approximately 2.5 miles to the Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center entrance. Follow the one-mile drive to the parking area.
- From north Tampa:
From N Dale Mabry Hwy (SR 597), turn west (left) onto Van Dyke Road (CR 685A) and travel to Gunn Hwy (CR 587). Turn north (right) and continue 1.4 miles to Tarpon Springs Road (CR 582). Turn west (left) and travel approximately 5.1 miles to the Brooker Creek Environmental Education Center entrance. Follow the one-mile drive to the parking area.
- From Pinellas County:
Go north on US 19 to Tarpon Avenue E. (CR 582), turn east (right). Pass through the traffic signal at East Lake Road (CR 611) and continue for approximately 2.5 miles to the Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center entrance. Follow the one-mile drive to the center.
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