After being “officially” closed during the government shutdown, Florida’s Gulf Islands National Seashore didn’t look too worse for wear when my husband and I visited over the weekend. Some sand had drifted over the road, and visitors were climbing the dunes (DON’T DO THAT), but otherwise both the beach and the shoreline along the sound…
Month: January 2019
National Parks Traveler – Legacy on the Land Book Review
“I saw a big connection between our disrespect for nature and the disrespect we show to ourselves and for each other” – Audrey Peterman. Many national park enthusiasts can recite the history of the system or their favorite site by memory. They laud the conservationists and leaders who knew we must protect precious natural landscapes…
National Parks Traveler – Running National Parks On Shoestrings Brought Varied Economic Results
Florida is home to two of the seven national seashores in the National Park System, and they are affected differently than traditional parks with road access. Because both Gulf Islands National Seashore in northwest Florida and Canaveral National Seashore in east-central Florida have miles of beach facing the water, it’s difficult if not impossible to…
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