Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
A farming community in eastern Hillsborough County, Plant City is best known for its strawberries, picked fresh and sold around the state.
An easy loop at Alderman’s Ford Park, the Nature Trail slips behind the nature center for a walk in under ancient trees along the river’s floodplain corridor
Alderman’s Ford Preserve offers a surprising treat for a Central Florida hike: whitewater, showcasing the Alafia River churning as it winds through a deeply eroded channel
A dip into a corner of the Green Swamp, Gator Creek Preserve north of Lakeland offers 2.5 miles of easy loop trails for the whole family to explore
It was the lack of blazes that caught my eye. Especially at intersections. Here and there, we’d find a diamond marking the route that the equestrian trails followed. But with Lenny leading the way, we simply followed. The Oak Ridge Tract of Lower Hillsborough River Wilderness Area is another in a vast patchwork of lands …
By 2009, Southwest Florida Water Management District will have new recreational facilities in place at 5,500 acres of public land around the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir off CR 39 near Plant City. Trails for hiking, biking, and equestrian use are in the plans. More details in the Tampa Tribune…
