With the addition of a new brewery on Stock Island, the Florida Keys are up to five craft breweries. They’re great places to experience Keys style and ambiance. The beer’s good, too!
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Topsail Hill Preserve State Park: Towering dunes, perfect beach, rare lakes
Topsail Hill State Park preserves 3 miles of pristine beach, magnificent white sand dunes and sparkling coastal lakes. With lots of camping and cabin sites, it’s a gem in the Panhandle. The park is one targeted for development by the state with the addition of a 350-room hotel.
Lake Placid Caladium Festival, July 24-26, 2026.
This small town festival celebrates a uniquely Lake Placid product: caladiums, a colorful plant grown commercially almost nowhere else. There’ll be music, food, a car show, arts and crafts and tours bus of caladium fields.
Paddle Florida: 2025-26 kayak trips explore Florida’s top waterways
Paddle Florida is a non-profit that organizes paddling trips each fall to spring on Florida’s greatest waterways. Carefully researched, these trips are a great source of paddling destinations. Get inspired to plan a trip!
Circle B Bar Reserve: Lakeland preserve with shady trails reopens a favorite trail
All trails closed for months from last year’s hurricanes reopened this week. Twenty minutes off I-4 between Orlando and Tampa, this little-known wildlife preserve has been called “a free safari.” There are several shady trails for summer visitors.
Crystal River is making a comeback, and the manatees are loving it
Crystal River is the only river in Florida where you are allowed to swim with the manatees, and it’s undergoing a remarkable restoration.
On a budget? Key West on the cheap isn’t easy, but here are tips
It is possible to go to Key West on a budget. Here are some frugal tips on lodging, interesting budget restaurants and free places to go.
Chill spring anchors this shady park with swimming, campground, kayaking near Tampa Bay
Tucked into a corner of Hillsborough County is a small 160-acre preserve with a fabulous swimming hole and shady campground along the Alafia River.
Charlotte Harbor Freedom Swim and Vero Beach Swim to the Wreck: Unusual July 4th traditions
Elsewhere, picnics and lawn games may be a perfect Fourth of July tradition. In steamy Florida, we like to stay wet, and these two exuberant saltwater adventures have become traditions for a good reason.
Swimming and tubing is back at Blue Spring State Park in Central Florida
Just in time for summer, this clear cool spring has reopened for swimming, diving and tubing after more than a year. The park is home to hundreds of manatees in the winter.