Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
Deeply steeped in history, Port St. Joe is a coastal city in Gulf County on the shores of St. Joseph Bay with bike paths, beaches, and hiking trails.
Learn about frontier days on the Forgotten Coast at this small museum that commemorates the steps taken to establish Florida statehood.
Centered around a mysterious 6,700-acre swamp forest with open waters and shrunken bald cypresses, Dead Lakes Recreation Area provides paddlers, hikers, and campers with a place to play.
An unexpected eye-to-eye encounter with a bald eagle from the top of the Cape San Blas Lighthouse in 2011, before it closed due to hurricane damage.
Combining a boardwalk and a loop through a maritime hammock, this easy nature trail leads to the bluffs and shoreline along St. Joseph’s Bay.
One of Florida’s most unusual and beautiful places to paddle, the Dead Lakes include 6,700 acres of mazy cypress and tupelo swamps in the Chipola River floodplain.
With a boardwalk over a beautiful coastal scrub to a beach on the sparkling waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Salinas Park provides a picnic grove in a pine forest.
Home to a diminutive scrub forest, the interpretive St. Joseph Bay Trail scrambles along dunes with views of the expansive bay.
Protecting fragile coastal habitats on the tip of Cape San Blas as it curves around to shelter St. Joseph Bay, T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park provides a sweep of beachfront on both bay and Gulf to enjoy.
If you’ve dreamed of camping on a deserted beach, here’s your chance. Spend a night under the stars along the Gulf of Mexico amid the quiet of the Wilderness Preserve.
