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According to the Naples Daily News, two new hiking trails have opened in Conservation Collier lands to the east of Naples. Both are tiny nature preserves that offer residents a little immersion into the natural habitats displaced by construction in that part of the Big Cypress Swamp. Alligator Flag Preserve, with an entrance across from Gulf …
Scrub-jays and gallinules within sight of each other? That’s what you’ll find at Indrio Savannas, an interesting interface of freshwater wetlands near the Indian River Lagoon with scrub habitat so close that the scrub-jays are dipping their beaks in the water. I hiked this landscape with my friend Lori a couple of weeks ago, and …
How DO you get poison ivy oil (urushiol) off your clothes? That’s a question I haven’t had to deal with in a long, long time, since little brushes here and there have never bothered me. I always wear long pants while hiking (ones that cover my socks) and don’t handle my shoes all that much. …
Today was a surprising reintroduction to the hiking trails of St Lucie County. My, how they have grown! Since 2003, the number of trails in the county has doubled.
While working on research for project in process, I was delighted to see that Camp Helen State Park – of the notable sea monster of Lake Powell – has added a nature trail on the north side of US 98. Fully accessible, this 0.8 mile loop provides an easy stroll with rest benches along the …
Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park in Tallahassee has the distinction of being a park inside city limits where you won’t feel a touch of city, its trails on sloping hillsides along Lake Jackson.
Tallahassee’s newest portal to the past is also its oldest, the reconstruction of history at Mission San Luis.
Conceived in the Art Deco era and shaded by a canopy of ancient oaks, the Maitland Art Center is, in part, a fantasy of a Mayan temple with formal gardens around historic art studios.
A campground overlooking the bayou, shaded by an oak canopy. A lovely day use area on the bluffs. Gentle trails that all of the family can enjoy. That’s Rocky Bayou State Park.
South of Tallahassee in the Apalachicola National Forest is one of Florida’s most beautiful and intriguing trail systems showcasing the weird and wonderful world of karst topography
St. Augustine is saturated with ghosts, and a spooky place to walk at night, especially around the old cemeteries.
At the very end of the Main Park Road in Everglades National Park, a lone mangrove is just offshore from the wrack line along Florida Bay.
