Anclote Key State Park is only accessed by a boat. You can take your own personal boat or you can hop on a ferry that will take you out there. Since I do not have a personal boat, the ferry was my only option. I consulted the internet to find out where I would need to...

Camp Helen State Park was such a nice treat for me. I loved walking around the grounds learning about the history. Before it was a state park the camp was used by the Avondale Textile Mills Company for their employee retreat. I think everyone in Alabama wanted to work...

When traveling with a dog the chances of you being able to take them on a beach are very slim. It gets frustrating but that is how things go so adjusting to this is your best option. For me it was not really a big deal, most of the time, because I do not go in the...

When I heard that Florida had caverns a few years ago, I was in disbelief. I knew right away I had to see that with my own eyes, I just wasn't sure when I would find the time to get up to the top of the state. I was thrilled when I found out the caverns were in...

I was super excited to see Falling Waters State Park. Honestly, I had no idea Florida even had waterfalls and that park housed the state's highest waterfall. According to the state parks website, Falling Waters Sink is a 100-foot-deep, 20-foot-wide cylindrical pit...

I am a gardener by trade because I am obsessed with plants, all plants, so when a state park has gardens in its name I get a bit excited. When I arrived at Alfred B McClay Gardens I discovered Casey was not allowed on the garden grounds and I immediately felt...

Waking up before the sun is easy to do when you have a State Parking goal to accomplish! As the time dwindled down on my State Parking year I found myself doing it more and more because the parks were further away and most of them required sometime of watercraft to...

Ok, I am going to be painfully honest about my trip to Estero Bay Preserve State Park. I woke up very early that day, after spending a very late night visiting with my friend George, at his favorite watering holes in Siesta Key. Casey and I woke up, watched the...

George and I drove into Collier-Seminole State park and knew right away it was a park best explored on a kayak or canoe. It is within one of the largest mangrove swamps in the world. If we did not have Casey with us we may have considered renting a vessel to paddle...

It was getting down to the wire on the state park challenge I have bestowed upon myself and after reviewing the parks I had traveled to, I noticed I missed this park in the Jacksonville area when I went State Parking with my Uncle Barry. When Brian Scott informed that...

About a year after my first visit to that park I heard they did a full moon rising event. I asked Amanda if she wanted to take her boys out there to hear about the full moon and watch it come up over the water. The night we decided to go was very cloudy so we didn’t...

Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach was a nice park with two sides to it. I pulled off of A1A and went right over to the oceanside to take a look. It was a pretty, breezy day and the area was very active. I got out of the car and I walked...