General James A. Van Fleet State Trail is a rail trail in Florida, named after General James A. Van Fleet, who was a distinguished combat commander in both World Wars and the Korean War.
It is protected as a Florida State Park and occupies a 29.2-mile (47.0 km) abandoned Seaboard Air Line Railroad corridor through Central Florida's Green Swamp area. It extends from Polk City in the south to Mabel in the north.
It passes through Bay Lake and crosses Lake, Polk and Sumter counties.
The entire 29.2-mile (47.0 km) length of the trail is paved approximately 12-foot (3.7 m) wide and is mostly straight, containing only one slight curve toward the southern end of the trail just north of the Polk City trailhead.
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