America’s Great Hiking Trails
Be inspired to get outdoors by America's Great Hiking Trails, a coffee table book about our National Scenic Trail system, written by Karen Berger and photographed by Bart Smith.
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Floating in Florida
Drifting across placid waters, find your bliss with the perfect adventure on Florida's hidden waters, with Lucy Tobias your guide.
Gators, Guts, & Glory: A New Book on the Florida Trail
In Gators, Guts, & Glory, Lauralee Bliss - "Blissful" - weaves a fascinating tale of her adventures while hiking the Florida Trail from end to end.
MyTopo!
In preparation for launching a new version of the Florida Hikes website, I’ve been gathering my many years of accumulated resources together in one place. I puzzled mightily over how I could have so few GPS tracks in my files, since I knew I’d …
The Florida Trail End to End
Find inspiration to take your children on a grand hiking adventure with Mike Umbarger's account of completing the entire Florida Trail with his sons
Trail Reflections: Jim Kern’s hiking legacy
The mountains of Borneo. The trails of northern Pakistan. The depths of the Big Cypress Swamp. Florida Trail founder Jim Kern has roamed far and wide over 50 years, a journey he shares in his new book Trail Reflections.
Walking the Ocean to Lake Hiking Trail
This week marks the 9th Annual Ocean to Lake Hike. It was a delight to learn last year that the 61-mile Ocean-to-Lake Trail is finally fully complete and open to the public. Last winter, John and I participated in the final three days of the six day group …