Pensacola
With protected lands along its waterways and oceanfront, Pensacola provides both urban and quiet walks showcasing its natural wonders.


With protected lands along its waterways and oceanfront, Pensacola provides both urban and quiet walks showcasing its natural wonders.

With nearly a mile of boardwalks above Pensacola Bay, Pensacola Bay Bluffs Park offers scrambles up and down the steep hillside on many sets of staircases.

On the Kite Flight Trail, explore hammocks, bottomland forests, and strand swamps on a wild perimeter surrounding expansive cattle pastures at Pepper Ranch Preserve.

Miles of hiking, biking, and equestrian trails span Pepper Ranch Preserve, an important link in the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed and habitat for the Florida panther.

Traverse a loop through coastal forests at Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park, featuring sweeping views of Perdido Bay and a dynamic mix of wet and dry ecosystems.

Showcasing the habitat diversity of Perdido Key at Johnson Beach, the accessible Perdido Key Discovery Trail is a gentle boardwalk over wetlands, forests, and dunes.

With sand as white as fresh fallen snow, Perdido Key State Park offers Florida's westernmost public beach.

Florida's westernmost nature hike, the little-known 1.8-mile North Trail is a leisurely stroll through the dunes on the Intracoastal side of this popular beach park.

Access sandy beaches and swimming holes along the Perdido River on the Florida state line with Alabama along the scenic Sand Bar Trail, a 1.9 mile round-trip in Perdido River WMA.

Fifteen miles of riverfront public land buffers a sinuous Outstanding Florida Waterway that forms the state line with Alabama at Florida's western border.

Hugging the edge of Perico Bayou on Perico Island, Perico Preserve adjoins Robinson Preserve in Palma Sola, presenting similar habitats on a smaller scale.

Long the heart of Florida's timber industry, Perry is the county seat of Taylor County along Florida's Big Bend, set within a coastal puzzle of swamp forests and estuary.
