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I’m not sure how we decided to visit Ravine Gardens State Park, but it’s one of the places I went with my parents when they were visiting.
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This isn’t quite like my regular hiking posts because this wasn’t really an official hike or anything.
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Another place I wanted to go while my parents were visiting was Dudley Farm Historic State Park, just outside of Gainesville.
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I feel like whenever I talk about Paynes Prairie I just talk about La Chua Trail, but the observation tower, Lake Wauburg, and Wacahoota Trail are all so good, too!
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I’ve been to Ichetucknee Springs State Park a couple of times over the years, once to the Blue Hole and part of the Trestle Trail (which we’re covering today) and once to kayak the Ichetucknee river.
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Last spring (2022) we made the trek up to Big Shoals State Park from Gainesville.
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The Devil’s Millhopper in Gainesville (Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park) is something I always wanted to see but didn’t get to until 2022!
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When my parents were visiting in the spring of 2023, we made a couple of trips to Micanopy and on one of those we also went over to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park!
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The hike to the Santa Fe river rise (the River Rise Preserve Yellow Trail) is a unique hike in High Springs.
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The day after hiking the Tumbled Rocks Trail at Devil’s Lake State Park we decided to do the Devil’s Doorway/Balanced Rock trail.
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I’m back to posts from my visit home back in October and today is the first of a few posts about Devil’s Lake State Park in Baraboo, Wisconsin, not far from Wisconsin Dells.
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In January, about a month before we left, we had to go down to Phoenix for something and wanted to do at least one hike while we were there. I had a few picked out and we ended up at neither of them, but that’s ok!
Continue reading “See The Flying Dutchman’s Brother at Lost Dutchman State Park On The Treasure Loop Trail”
After spending a lot of winter time in Gainesville , I finally kayaked the Ichetucknee River. At the end of 2020. As I write this over a year later.
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One of the things I knew I would be doing when my parents came to visit Florida this year was seeing the Alfred B. Maclay Garden State Park which just happened to be during the blooming season!
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