The Loop Road Trail is a wilderness-walking trail. Start at the parking lot entrance to the trail. The trail moves through cypress swamp for the first half mile across Moccasin Slough Structure and continues to an open area and a scrub restoration area. At a .8 mile out the Loop road begins to the right, follow trail markers and continue through open meadow and scrub and hardwood hammock. This trail is three and half trail miles from the gate to the end where a bream crosses the road. One must double back over the same route to the entrance. This trail is not a difficult walk but it is long, so come prepared and provides one a wide variety of birds.

The Loop Road Trail can be reached from US 41 in Inverness. Take Eden Drive east, the road changes to Moccasin Slough Road; continue to the end and the entrance to Flying Eagle. Parking area is in front of the gate. Bring all your personal needs on this trail, sunscreen, water, insect spray and lunch.

The Loop Road Trail is a mosaic of small lakes, marshes and a mixture swamps, hardwood upland in the Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes. It provides a wide verity of bird life by the season. Check the kiosk at the entrance for bird sightings when you arrive.

This trail because of its mixed habitat provides a wide variety of bird species. The best birding is from fall to spring. Winter will produce fifty to seventy five species on a mornings walk The parking lot is a good place to start with passerines, such as vireos, warblers, Carolina wrens, titmouse, kinglets, cedar waxwings. Woodpeckers abound throughout the trail, red- bellied, downy, pileated and yellow- bellied sapsuckers.

The open marsh and lake areas will have all the herons and egrets. Look for bald eagles, harriers over the marsh and lakes. Anhinga are plentiful. The meadows provide loggerhead shrike, swamp sparrow, blue birds.