Articles by Rob Rogers

Rob Rogers is a writer and attorney from Winter Garden. His first book, Finding My Way Home: Fighting Depression Backpacking in Central Florida won the Bronze Medal for Autobiography/Memoir at the 2025 FAPA President’s Book Awards. His essays have been published in Ponder Review, Empyrean, and Under the Gum Tree. He blogs at Central Florida Backpacking Desk Jockey

A Forest is Reborn in the Green Swamp

Rob Rogers

From a bleak, charred landscape comes a sharpening of the senses and an unfolding of new life. Author Rob Rogers shares this evocative hike across Green Swamp East.

It’s Raining in the Ocala National Forest

Rob Rogers

The prediction of stormy weather never deters an eager backpacker, since getting drenched is going to happen sometime. Author Rob Rogers shares his adventure.

Sunrise at Kissimmee Prairie

Rob Rogers

A spectacular sunrise camping along the Florida Trail at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park makes up for the disappointment of stargazing foiled by weather. Essay by Rob Rogers.

Trail To The Past

Rob Rogers

Step by step, relive Florida history in the mind's eye on a walk to Culpepper Bend in Little Big Econ State Forest. Essay by Rob Rogers.