Gimme three steps and a whole lot more hiking 1.2 miles around a park established to honor the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, northwest of Green Cove Springs where he grew up and played as a kid.| Florida Hikes
With elevation changes, streams, and cascades, the 12.8-mile Pioneer Trail at Jennings State Forest is about as close as you can get an Appalachian Trail hike without leaving the Florida peninsula.| Florida Hikes
Hike to Up & Down Lake on a beautiful loop of 1.2 miles through sandhills and oak hammocks west of Palatka on the northern tract of Carl Duval Moore State Forest.| Florida Hikes
Explore Camp Chowenwaw Park on a 3.1 mile network of trails into an old-growth hardwood hammock and floodplain swamps near where Black Creek empties into the St. Johns River south of Fleming Island.| Florida Hikes
Loop a mile along a scenic shoreline on Upper Tampa Bay, where Safety Harbor Waterfront Park has an outstanding boardwalk through a mangrove forest and the eastern end of the Ream Wilson Trail.| Florida Hikes
North of downtown Dunedin, Hammock Park is a 90-acre oasis of green, a wonderland of botanical diversity with a surprising array of habitats along a 2.8 mile circuit of its trail network.| Florida Hikes
On high ground above Black Creek in Middleburg, this 6.5 mile hike at Black Creek Ravines showcases upland forests, seepage slopes, bluffs and the transitional habitats between them.| Florida Hikes
Author of over 40 books, Sandra Friend established FloridaHikes.com in 2016 to expand on the field research she'd completed for her first six hiking guides. She has been honored with lifetime achievement awards from the Florida Trail Association and the Florida Outdoor Writers Association.| floridahikes.com