Trying to find JW Corbett Wildlife Management Area in WPB, FL ?

Alphonse · 09-26-2006, 12:37 PM

Looking for a good place to go wheeling in SE Florida and JW Corbett came up in a few conversations. The park's location is not shown on google maps.

Does anyone know how to get to this park from Ft Lauderdale area, and is there anything that one should know before venturing up there for a day of wheeling?

Regards,
Alphonse

hot-n-humid · 09-26-2006, 12:52 PM

Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, Palm Beach, FL
Tel: 561-625-5122

I don't know what they offer. Give them a call

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Alphonse previously said:

Looking for a good place to go wheeling in SE Florida and JW Corbett came up in a few conversations. The park's location is not shown on google maps.

Does anyone know how to get to this park from Ft Lauderdale area, and is there anything that one should know before venturing up there for a day of wheeling?

Regards,
Alphonse

**colink1** · 09-26-2006, 01:23 PM

http://www.floridaconservation.org/r..._05_06_map.pdf

Try this link.. I used to live in DB off of Lake Ida and Military, so I know the area well.
Have you thought about heading up to Lake Wales or Ocala?

Dom · 10-05-2006, 06:44 PM

I used to go ridin' my crotch rocket up in ocala for some good back road riding...I know it would be a good place to wheel, but isn't it mostly all privately owned farmland??

meathead · 10-05-2006, 06:50 PM

The Ocala National Forest is HUGE and public land.

tugsus · 10-15-2006, 08:39 AM

I live a few miles from Corbitt.
I thought it was only open to hunting and the youth camp.
I'll drive by there later and post what I can find out.

Alphonse · 10-15-2006, 01:48 PM

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tugsus previously said:

I live a few miles from Corbitt.
I thought it was only open to hunting and the youth camp.
I'll drive by there later and post what I can find out.

I called the park a few weeks ago and was told by the person who answered that the park does not allow off roading. But the next day I was at a local ball field near where I live and started talking to a guy with a lifted dodge truck. I asked him if he goes wheeling and he said yes, at Corbitt and had been a few weeks ago. What gives?

He also said that had gotten stuck in a mud pit up to his door handles. He had 35" MT's and a 6" lift, so that's like 45"+ deep mud

Regards,
Alphonse

Dom · 10-15-2006, 07:18 PM

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Alphonse previously said:

I called the park a few weeks ago and was told by the person who answered that the park does not allow off roading. But the next day I was at a local ball field near where I live and started talking to a guy with a lifted dodge truck. I asked him if he goes wheeling and he said yes, at Corbitt and had been a few weeks ago. What gives?

He also said that had gotten stuck in a mud pit up to his door handles. He had 35" MT's and a 6" lift, so that's like 45"+ deep mud

Regards,
Alphonse

Al,

My bro just stopped by and said on his way home from Sebring he found JW Corbett park...Said take I-95 to exit 87 or 88 and pick up the 706 and there is a small sign of the road that says "JW Corbett" and has a dirt road leading into some woods...See you at the gym tomorrow man...

-Dom

tugsus · 10-16-2006, 05:11 AM

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Dom previously said:

Al,

My bro just stopped by and said on his way home from Sebring he found JW Corbett park...Said take I-95 to exit 87 or 88 and pick up the 706 and there is a small sign of the road that says "JW Corbett" and has a dirt road leading into some woods...See you at the gym tomorrow man...

-Dom

That is correct, but there is another entrance off of Seminole Pratt Whitney road in Western Palm Beach County.

As far as 45" of mud, remember South Florida is swampland and that Corbitt has many acres of wetlands.

That's why most of the hunters that I know use mudbuggies.