Over 450 years of history has left its mark on a Jacksonville fishing village that sits on a busy, watery corner where the St. Johns River meets the ocean. … More Mayport Village: A glimpse of lost time
The road past the ranger station leads to a 2,366-acre park positioned on the Central Florida Ridge, an area filled with rolling pine sandhills. The ridge is all that remains of dunes that were formed over thousands of years by the rise and fall of sea levels. … More Gold Head: Finding peace in sandhills
The quiet breeze swept through the course as the golfer lined up for the shot — the short but challenging par-4 hole made for a nervous execution. With one solid kick, the ball flew into the water, ultimately causing a double bogey for the hole. … More Jacksonville footgolf: On its way up
The town’s unique flair and historic foundations make Micanopy, population 600, a perfect stop-over for visitors traveling down State Route 441 south of Gainesville or even a destination for Floridians. … More Micanopy: Where old meets new
Looking for a place to get away and enjoy a walk or a bike ride without having to dodge, dip and dive to avoid cars? The Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail Trail is a re-purposed railway that now serves as a 14.5 mile paved trail safe for feet, wheels and even hoofs. … More Baldwin Rail Trail: A place to get away
At the southern entrance of the Bayard Conservation Area, oak trees standing tall in the sky boast full leaves of light and dark greens. The forest’s verdant canopy screens bushes and creatures below from the midday sun, sparing just enough light on the forest floor for visitors to make their way through its trails. … More Bayard Conservation Area: Solitude on the busiest of days
The glossy black water of the Okefenokee Swamp resembled oil – black and calm enough to create a mirror image of the Spanish-moss-draped cypress trees that surrounded the entire swamp. It is a place of subtle but breathtaking beauty and one that can only be fully explored by boat as a companion. … More Okefenokee Swamp: “There’s no other place in the world like the Okefenokee.”
Just southeast of Gainesville is the same Florida scrub country American literary figure Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote about in “Cross Creek” and Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Yearling.” … More Chilling creekside in Florida cracker country
“I remember being so nervous, but calm at the same time,” Kimberly Layton says about that morning walk with a group of people she hadn’t ever met. “Nervous because I was about to meet people I had never met before, but calm because I already felt like I knew them.” … More Travel connections: Meet me at —
Death is absolute and as ancient as the stone slabs towering over a plot of graveyard green, especially in America’s oldest city. … More St. Augustine cemeteries: Rooted in history
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