Plan your Florida Trail Hike
Thinking of section hiking, thru-hiking, or simply backpacking the Florida Trail? Plan ahead with this step-by-step guide of what to do in advance of hiking the Florida Trail.
Choosing Gear for a Florida Trail Hike
Our detailed recommendations and reviews of the best hiking and backpacking gear for your thru-hike or section hike of the Florida Trail based on our own successful use of certain tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, and more.
Crossing Big Cypress
It’s Florida’s roughest, wettest, weirdest backpacking trip, best done with friends. Sandra tackled it as the final piece of her 1,110-mile section hike of the Florida Trail, end-to-end.
Do Not Feed the Bears
Bear bagging is the art of hanging your food properly out of reach of bears. If you're a Florida backpacker and haven't learned how, here's a short course. Securing your food from bears is required in the Ocala, Osceola, and Apalachicola National Forests.
Xmas with Zpacks
A field trip, Florida Hikes style, to a lightweight backpacking gear manufacturer creating great products - and jobs - on Florida's Space Coast.
Backpacking With Your Kids
How to Do Florida TV host Chad Crawford takes his daughter on a backpacking trip on the Florida Trail. Let him inspire you to plan your next family adventure!
Embracing the Wild: Elaine Zumsteg
On March 28, 2014, Stuart resident Elaine "Cadi" Cadigan Zumsteg began her Appalachian Trail thru-hike. After meeting "Hobo Nobo," the ladies finished together on September 30.
Embracing the Wild: Anna Huthmaker
The founder of Trail Dames, a national organization to empower female hikers, Anna Huthmaker took on the Appalachian Trail in 2003 despite her own self-doubts.
Embracing the Wild: Rayana Adra
Hiking the AT before and the PCT after, Rayana "Acorn" Adra is one of a handful of women to thru-hike the Florida Trail during the 2014 hiking season.
Embracing the Wild: Luanne Anderson
A volunteer for ALDHA and on the Board of Directors of the Florida Trail Hikers Alliance, Luanne “Tigger” Anderson has not just hiked, but helped manage an Appalachian Trail hostel.
Embracing the Wild: Misti Little
After completing the Appalachian Trail, Misti "Ridley" Little thru-hiked the Florida Trail with her husband Chris in 2011. She actively promotes the Florida Trail to the hiking community.
Embracing the Wild: Lori Burris
A long-time trail maintainer and hike leader, Lori “SwampTromper” Burris has encouraged many women in South Central Florida to take that first step into the wild.