Family Destinations Guide

The Middle-Of-Nowhere State Park In Delaware You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

That’s Trap Pond State Park in Laurel, Delaware for you – the woodsy equivalent of finding a twenty-dollar bill in your winter coat pocket.
Family Destinations Guide

This Stunning State Park In Texas Is So Little Known, You’ll Have It All To Yourself

Caddo Lake State Park in Karnack, Texas is that fairytale setting come to life—minus the talking animals (though the wildlife here has plenty to say). Texas is known for many things—barbecue that ...
Marco Eagle

Marking a milestone: Big Cypress National Preserve, the nation's first, turns 51

Big Cypress National Preserve grabbed national headlines for a detention center commonly called “Alligator Alcatraz.” ...
Newseria BIZNES

From Cypress Trees to Streetcars: How Louisiana’s Dual Tours Capture Its Dual Spirit

The same land that grows ancient cypress trees also hums with brass bands and streetcar bells. In one direction lie quiet wetlands where time moves with the tide. In the other, a city alive with music ...
Marco Eagle

3 To Do: Bonita, Cape Coral and Marco Island – Wet Walk, punk and reggae, artist talk

From 8 a.m. until 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 8, at CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails, Pinewoods Parking Lot, 16470 Harrell Road, ...
The Berkeley Observer

Ticketing Glitch Delays Cypress Gardens’ ‘Halloween in the Swamp’ Online Sales; Site to Reopen Monday

Tickets for Cypress Gardens’ popular “Halloween in the Swamp” event were expected to go on sale Wednesday, October 1, but a ...

Florida Alligator Festival celebrates tradition of alligator wrestling and ‘Old Florida’ spirit

The second annual Florida Alligator Festival was held near the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida on Sunday.
WUSF Public Media

Sunflowers blooming big at Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a destination for the environmentally excitable whether to see the super ghost orchid ...

‘Halloween in the Swamp’ at Cypress Gardens offers 3 nights of spooky fun

Cypress Gardens will host its annual Halloween in the Swamp over three nights this October. Attendees can take a haunted boat ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Images of the Everglades speak loudly, as does advocate photographer Clyde Butcher

Clyde Butcher leaned forward in a chair under the bright lights of his photo gallery along the Tamiami Trail in Big Cypress National Preserve. Like a history exhibit come to life, Butcher wrangled his ...