Hike Bike Paddle Camp Florida with authors Sandra Friend and John Keatley as your guides
Sitting between the St. Johns River and the Indian River Lagoon, Titusville is a gateway to nature, trails, and space
148.0 miles. Spanning from the Ocala National Forest south through the prairies of Osceola County, the Orlando section of the Florida Trail encompasses the eastern suburbs of the Orlando metro
At Seminole Ranch Conservation Area in Christmas, the Florida Trail follows a linear 4.9 mile route through a string of hydric hammocks in the St. Johns River floodplain
The paved ECRRT ends at Draa Rd in Titusville, but the plans for the Coast to Coast Connector take it right downtown. Here’s what we found along the route.
Looping between Fox Lake and South Lake, the North Loop at Fox Lake Sanctuary circles 3.6 miles through bayheads, flatwoods, and scrub to a showy peninsula at Moss Point
Protecting more than 2,500 acres along the western edge of Titusville, Fox Lake Sanctuary provides an immense landscape for exploration
On the south side of Fox Lake Sanctuary, the Wetland Extension Trail leads you on a 1.7-mile soggy slog through wet pine flatwoods, wet prairies, and bayheads
One of Brevard County’s newer trail systems, the loops at Fox Lake Sanctuary offer more than 6 miles of traversing rugged terrain amid bayheads, prairies, and pine flatwoods.
Where Haulover Canal connects the Indian River Lagoon and Mosquito Lagoon in Merritt Island NWR, a manatee observation deck makes it easy to watch for manatees drifting by
A serendipitous stop during a bike ride on the Coast to Coast Trail in Mims leads to a tasty lunch at the Family Meat Market, a local institution just a block from the trail.
With recreational activities ranging from hiking to biking, boating, fishing, and bioluminscent kayaking, Florida’s top destination for birding is also home to Kennedy Space Center
Riding through Titusville to the Coast to Coast Trail, which terminates here, I can ship our books and get a good bit of exercise in while social distancing
A bike ride through the northern part of Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge from Titusville to the Haulover Canal and back.
