Running Egans Creek Greenway: Amelia Island's Quiet Trail
Most visitors to Amelia Island head straight for Fort Clinch when they want trails, and I get it — the singletrack inside the state park is legitimately great. But there’s a trail system right in the middle of Fernandina Beach that I probably run more than anything else, and it rarely has more than a handful of people on it: Egans Creek Greenway. I’ve been running Egans Creek for years. On a normal week it shows up in my schedule at least twice — sometimes as a standalone workout, sometimes as the middle section of a longer route that starts downtown, dips through the greenway, and loops back via the neighborhoods along Citrona Drive. It’s become such a default that I forget not everyone knows it’s there. ...