Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
While its broad hard-packed beaches have attracted millions of visitors since 1870, Daytona Beach doesn’t skimp on opportunities for you to enjoy forests and estuaries on its trails
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Beneath a dense canopy of cabbage palms and live oaks, the remains of a 19th century plantation rise from the forest floor at Addison Blockhouse State Park.
Walk among the ancients in Bulow Hammock, starting with the imposing Fairchild Oak, one of Florida’s largest live oak trees
History and natural beauty meet under a dense oak canopy at the ruins of one of Florida’s oldest sugar mills
Stretching 5.2 miles through an primordial forest of sluggish, fern-lined waterways, ancient live oaks, magnolias, and cabbage palms, the Bulow Woods Loop is one of North Florida’s most scenic hikes
A linear connector between Bulow Creek State Park and Bulow Plantation Ruins, the Bulow Woods Trail parallels the flow of this freshwater creek near the sea.
Established in 1908 as the first National Forest east of the Mississippi, the Ocala National Forest is a mecca for hikers and campers, and the birthplace of the Florida Trail
Spilling across the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, Ormond Memorial Gardens leads you into a contemplative world mere steps from a major highway
Just south of Daytona Beach, Ponce Preserve protects a cross-section of barrier island habitats, with more than 2 miles of trails connecting the beach and the Halifax River.
Within sight of the third Westy that looked just like Primrose, we were looking through an array of tie-dyed t-shirts, trying to find a matching pair. Unfortunately, they had sold out of the ones with the VW design swirled through the middle, or we would have bought some on the spot. We were at the …
At Smyrna Dunes Park in New Smyrna Beach, the 2-mile hiking trail is a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk, with side trips off to the sea via more rugged approaches.
Yep, that’s a stegosaurus hiding in the bushes. Sugar Mill Botanical Gardens has had a lot of faces over the ages, including a stint in the 1950s as Bongoland, a roadside attraction full of not-so-scary dinosaurs.
We launched a new full-color edition of 50 Hikes in Central Florida at the National Trails Festival in Deland the first weekend of October. Take a peek inside.
