Celebrate National Park Week
Enjoy a week-long nationwide celebration of America's National Parks in 2024, starting with fee-free admission on Saturday April 20. Get outdoors and explore Florida's National Parks.
Discovering the Florida Trail
A photographic journey across Florida, Discovering the Florida Trail is our new small format coffee table book with both panoramas and small wonders along the Florida National Scenic Trail. Hardcover, 192 pages.
Every Kid Outdoors
Got kids? If any of them are in fourth grade, they can get a free pass to ALL Federal public lands good for the whole family through the end of August. Here's how.
Florida Trail, Fort Pickens
Gulf Islands National Seashore 6.9 miles6.9 miles. At the westernmost tip of Santa Rosa Island, the Florida Trail comes to its Northern Terminus in the shadow of the most important historic sites in Northwest Florida, Fort Pickens.
Florida Trail, Seashore
Navarre to Pensacola Beach 32.3 milesIn addition to bike paths and the scenic UWF-SRIA Dunes Preserve, the 32-mile Seashore section of the Florida Trail walks you along a beach to the trail's Northern Terminus.
Fort Barrancas
Pensacola 2.2 milesPart of the Third System of coastal defenses built in the 1840s by the Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Barrancas is the showy centerpiece of a National Park unit inside Naval Air Station Pensacola.
Fort Barrancas Woodland Trail
NAS Pensacola 0.5 milesThe gentle Woodland Nature Trail loops a half mile through a patch of woodlands downhill from the promontory where Fort Barrancas stands above Pensacola Bay at Naval Air Station Pensacola.
Fort Pickens
With more than seven miles of beaches along Santa Rosa Island, the Fort Pickens Unit at Gulf Islands National Seashore is a compelling destination at Pensacola Beach.
Hiking Safely With Your Dog
While hiking with your dog can be very satisfying, Florida hiking has its own special perils for your best buddy. Here's a heads-up on what to look for and where it's best to take a hike.
Johnson Beach
As part of Gulf Islands National Seashore, the windswept tip of Perdido Key goes on for miles at Johnson Beach. Discover natural habitats and wild shores along its length.
Naval Live Oaks Area
Gulf Breeze 6.5 milesSpanning from Santa Rosa Sound to Pensacola Bay, Naval Live Oaks Area is one of America's oldest federally protected forests, now part of Gulf Islands National Seashore.
Naval Live Oaks Trails
Gulf Breeze 5.4 milesOne of the most compelling hiking destinations near Pensacola, the trails on the Pensacola Bay side of Naval Live Oaks Area offer outstanding scenery and surprisingly hilly terrain.