Conklin's Gully

Edie Bellavia

Really nice hike, start was straight uphill. We did the Rim trail and Parish rd. Saturday mid day 4/16/22 road was really busy there then that was a good hike.

Mel S

An easy-to-miss outdoor recreation opportunity in the Naples area, Conklin's Gully offers several trails of varying difficulties. I stayed off of the hills and hiked through the water. It's kind of a choose your own adventure situation! Definitely doable in Teva sandals or barefoot. Be prepared to do some crawling or scrabbling if you're interesting in surmounting the waterfalls. Getting down is the challenge. Bring your dog, too!

Aubrey MacIntyre

The 12 falls trail is fairly challenging. Most of the hike is upstream through the creek itself. There are several 20'+ waterfalls you'll need to climb, one has a rope to assist the ascent up a crumbling shale rock face. Lots of fun, especially on a hot day. Be prepared for slippery and muddy conditions and to get wet. Once at the top, you have the option to join the trails alongside the gully to return, or to climb back down the waterfalls, which tends to be a bit trickier than climbing up. The creek runs higher in the spring and after rains and much lower during the heat of summer, though I've never seen the waterfalls themselves dry.

Igor Polotai

This is a fantastic park. You have two choices of trails: if there is no water, you can walk along the river and go upstream to the grand waterfall. You'll have to jump between rocks, balance on logs, and shimmy up small cliffs. It's like a jungle gym. Very fun, but you'll need good balance and flexibility. Prepare to get a bit wet. Warning: once you get to the waterfall, you'll have to climb up the cliff on the right of the waterfall in order to get on the trail back. It's very high and very steep. Going back downstream is not recommended at all. Your other options is to go up on some gravel and dirt trails. It's less interesting, but more easier, a nice woodland forest (great when the color change occurs), and gives you amazing vistas of the bowl like cliffs. But in my opinion, being inside the "bowl" is so much more fun. You get get to the first one pretty easily, and then you can turn back. However, if you want a bigger challenge, you can go upstream the second on and even get to the waterfall at the end.