Jacksonville has a hidden secret in Arlington Lions Club Park - a nice long boardwalk along the St. Johns River, perfect for manatee watching. Pack a picnic or bring your fishing pole! It doesn’t hurt that there’s over a mile of boardwalks and trails to explore, too. Give this park a thought as you GO! [...]

Oscar Scherer State Park south of Sarasota will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new accessible Osprey Trail around Lake Osprey. This is the second trail within this expansive state park to provide comfortable access to a forest setting for visitors with limited mobility, wheelchair-bound visitors, and families with strollers. The ribbon-cutting celebration is set [...]

From our friends at Oscar Scherer State Park:
A low-key groundbreaking on April 15 marked the official start of the second ADA-compliant trail at Oscar Scherer State Park, according to Russell Delaney, president of the Friends of Oscar Scherer Park, Inc. One of 100 citizen support organizations (CSO) in Florida’s park system, the Friends are creating [...]

It’s summer, but that shouldn’t stop you from playing outdoors. Down in the quiet town of Osprey between Sarasota and Venice, you can see their namesake bird along South Creek at Oscar Scherer State Park. The extensive trail system gets you deep into Florida scrub-jay habitat, but a summer morning is best enjoyed with a [...]

Within just a few miles of the Fort Lauderdale Airport, I-95, the Florida Turnpike, and the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, there’s a Secret Woods right under Fort Lauderdale’s nose. That’s Secret Woods Nature Center, the first-ever designated urban wilderness in Florida, established in 1978.  With a little over a mile’s worth of trails [...]