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More trails in the works for Tampa Bay, thanks to Southwest Florida Water Management District. Their newly minted management plan for Chito Branch Reserve – another reservior for thirsty Tampa Bay – in southeastern Hillsborough County includes networks of hiking, biking, and equestrian trails … and they need volunteers to make it happen. Meanwhile, you’re …
Now that the management plan for South Florida Water Management District’s Conner Preserve has been approved, opening the preserve to trail-based recreation is the first order of business. A trail system will be completed by fall. This Pasco County preserve is about 5 miles north of Land O’ Lakes off SR 52, east of US …
A committee collecting community petitions for construction of a multi-use trail dubbed the Panama City Crayfish Trail pitched the Lynn Haven commission on the concept, according to the Panama City News Herald. A five-mile stretch of old railbed from the fuel depot east is what they’re eyeing for a new trail. Living as I do in an …
Another escape for those of you in the crowded ‘burbs of Clearwater and Tampa: Upper Pithlachascotee River Preserve, being created in Pasco County near Fivay Junction. According to The Tampa Tribune, this 122.6-acre preserve has natural treasures like an ancient bald cypress and gopher tortoise habitat, as well as historical artifacts such as an old turpentine …
Noted in passing, on our journey down SR 20: Freeport has a public park close to (and across from) the library, H.A. Laird Park, which sports a very inviting boardwalk nature trail into what appears to be a cypress swamp. We didn’t have time to visit this trip, but perhaps you will: see the city website for …
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Me and the gals at work slipped into the new park in Micanopy to see what it’s all about. It’s a community park, and town hall says construction is complete and it will open soon. There are Native American burial mounds on site, a small museum, and what looks to be at least one loop …
At the far north end of Market Street, that famed boulevard that slices right through the heart of Apalachicola’s historic business district, the road ends at the Apalachicola Reserve Nature Center and its adjoining nature trail. While the center is only open on weekends, the trail is available anytime (dawn to dusk), and I took …
Atop one of the highest points in Florida stands a monument to an immigrant who lived the American Dream and decided that his legacy would be to preserve this high point: Bok Tower Gardens
Hi, gang! We returned from Apalachicola today in a driving rain, the Gulf of Mexico so dark and silvery it felt like driving through a Clyde Butcher photograph. Rob and I just celebrated our third wedding anniversary AND my latest book, “Orlando & Central Florida: An Explorer’s Guide” is turned in, AND the Florida Hiking …
Behind the Wakulla County Visitor Center or at the end of Buttons Rd, get up close with the estuary in Panacea along the shores of Dickerson Bay
On Feb 2, I was pumped to get outdoors – too many days spent indoors of late – and to celebrate both Florida Hiking Trails Month and a morning spent with my good friends Joan Jarvis and Jon Phipps, plus guest and fellow F-Trooper John Mahoney, Joan drove us to a Seminole County wilderness area …
