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The Everglades Back Country — A Day Trip Most Floridians Never Take
There's the Everglades you've heard about — the airboats, the gift shop, the boardwalk with the alligator at the end. And there's the Everglades you walk into, 90 minutes from where the buses turn around. The second one is the one worth your day.
Florida Trail — Aucilla Sinks Section: Hiking the River That Keeps Disappearing
Four miles of Florida National Scenic Trail through Jefferson County where the Aucilla River dives into limestone, runs underground, surfaces in a gin-clear sink pool, and vanishes again — thirty-plus times. The strangest single-day hike east of the Mississippi, and most of the year you'll have it to yourself.
Florida Trail (Ocala Section) — 67 Miles Through Sand Pine, Springs, and Black Bear Country
The Florida National Scenic Trail runs 1,100 miles from the Big Cypress to Pensacola. The 67-mile Ocala section is the most scenic third of the whole thing — sand-pine scrub, longleaf pine, three first-magnitude springs on the route, and the densest black bear population in the state. Section…