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- Great Outdoors in St. Petersburgh
FLORIDA
PARKS
A Guide to
Camping
and Nature
a book by Gerald Grow
7th edition
Longleaf Publications, � 2002
288 pages
14 maps
138 photographs
"Every visitor to Florida, and every resident or our state, should read Florida Parks. Buy, beg, borrow, or steal a copy of this book. Read it and use it. Your life will be greatly rewarded."
-- Florida Audubon Magazine
- Florida's largest parks offer wild places
- where you can find solitude and unspoiled nature.
- Bahia Honda--one of the glorious beaches
- in the Florida Keys.
Suggested retail price: $16.95
ISBN 0-939638-58-4 (item number for ordering)
Since 1981, Florida Parks has been recognized as the definitive guide to camping in Florida.
This 6 by 9-inch book's 288 pages cover nearly 350 parks and camping areas on public lands in Florida--including
- state parks
- state recreation areas
- national parks
- national forests
- state forests
- regional parks
- county parks
- preserves
- wilderness areas
and many other areas that offer either
- family camping, or
- an outstanding natural area
138 photographs give you a good sense of the range and variety of Florida's parks.
14 maps show you where the parks are located. Detailed directions accompany the description of each park.
There is an extensive 10-page index that makes it easy for you to find what you need. The index has special sections for locating parks with
- Archaeological sites
- Bicycling
- Birding
- Cabins
- Canoeing
- Hiking
- Historic sites
- Horse camping
- Horse trails
- Living history enactments
- Museums
Shelling after a storm.
If you know to sign up, you can take ranger-led hikes, like this one in Everglades National Park.
Florida Parks is the nature-lover's guide to the Florida outdoors.
With this book, you can enjoy nearly 350 of the best places to camp, hike, bike, canoe, swim, go tubing, fish, ride horseback, sunbathe, spot birds, discover wildlife, immerse yourself in nature, and participate in the great Florida outdoors.
This book describes all the finest public lands that encourage camping or give you access to an outstanding natural area.
An introduction of nearly 50 pages provides valuable information on
- types of parks
- climate
- camping facilities
- busy seasons
- fees
- pets
- road numbers
- phone numbers
- planning your trip
- how to talk to Southerners
- wildlife alert
- crime in parks
- what park rangers do
- how you can help parks
- threats to parks
- carrying capacity
- off the beaten track
- canoe trails
- hiking, biking, and horse trails
- birding and nature study
- pests and problems
- snakes
- experiencing nature
- an extensive section on natural habitats of Florida
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- One of the pleasures of visiting
- Florida parks is the wildlife you will see.
- Florida Parks describes many
- interesting living history programs,
- like this one at Fort Clinch State Park.
How to purchase
Florida Parks
(1) Many bookstores carry this book. Ask for it.
(2) Your bookstore can order it through Book Wholesalers in Hialeah, Great Outdoors Publishing in St. Petersburgh, or direct from the publisher.
(4) To order from the publisher:
- Longleaf Publications
- 1911 Gibbs Drive
- Tallahassee FL 32303
- For shipping at book rate, enclose a check or money order for $16.95, plus $2.47 for shipping by Media Mail, for a total of $19.42.
- For priority mail delivery, add $6.20, for a total of $23.15. (Sorry, no telephone or credit card orders.)
"Excellent. The author knew in great detail what he was talking about and was totally in love with his subject."--A.C., naturalist
"Our customers have been asking for a guide like this. It's long overdue."--Southface Wilderness
"Up-to-date. Comprehensive. Describes many fascinating places to visit."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"You can be sure this book will be with me when I go to Florida."--S.P., outdoor writer and photographer
"All the information you need for a thorough Florida experience-beaches, forests, rivers, swamps, marshes, wildlife, and other natural treasures."--B.M., ecologist
"I am the family camping and canoeing director of our church. The book is just great."--R.J., Clearwater, Fla.
"I can't tell you how helpful the book has been. Every park we are going to is covered in the book. I had all the other publications I could get my hands on, but yours is far and away the best."--C. H., Fort Lauderdale
"We want to teach out children about the 'real' land, and this book really helps. Thank you."--the M's, Vero Beach
"Thank you for a great book."--J.D., Margate
"Just what we have been looking for."--H.W., New York
"An extremely informative, accurate, and enjoyable book. Overview of natural habitats especially helpful, as were addresses for further information for each entry. Appreciate your concern for this, the 'real' Florida."--J.J., Bradenton
"An excellent guide with good organization which facilitates finding things quickly."--N.B., Tampa
"I find it very helpful as a newcomer to Florida."--R.G., Longwood
"Superb-It has really made our Florida trip a delightful experience."--B.P., Maine
"Highly readable-not just informative. A valuable addition to any nature-loving visitor's library."--D.V., Georgia
What readers and reviewers say
about Florida Parks: A Guide to Camping and Nature
"Every visitor to Florida, and every resident of our state, should read Florida Parks. Beg, buy, borrow, or steal a copy of this book. Read it and use it. Your life will be greatly rewarded."--Florida Audubon Magazine
"An excellent planning guide, and a testament bearing witness to the awesome power and silent consolation of vanishing natural Florida. --Tallahassee Democrat newspaper
"A complete, up-to-date, practical guide to camping in Florida. Recommended."--Herb Allen, Tampa Tribune
"Long needed for nature lovers in Florida."--Miami Herald
"A book for anyone who has ever thought about camping in the state of Florida. Covers nearly every angle. The book is a gem. Worth your time and money."--Dothan Eagle
"The real delight of the book is how well Grow details each site, what to do there, what to look forward to, and what to look for." --Apalachee Audubon Journal
"Definitely a must. Grab this book, head for the woods."--Florida Flambeau
"The 50-page introductory chapter is a masterpiece of practical information about Florida's ecosystems and sensible advice about getting out and exploring it. The remaining chapters give thorough reviews of where to go."--Spectrum
"Contains some of the most inspired recent nature writing in print."--ENFO
"Sure to become the classic camping guide to which all others will be compared."--Ney Landrum, while director of Florida State Parks
"Well done. Thoroughly detailed. Written with a fondness for nature that is rare in books today. Beautifully illustrated throughout."--New Hampshire News
"Gives you enough information so you can decide in advance which parks you really want to visit and how long you will want to stay. Once you begin reading it, you will want to drop everything and go camping."--Camp-O-Rama
"A complete, practical, and realistic guide. I am 81 years old and still camp."--H.S.
"We have visited 87 state parks and 26 national parks nationwide. I have been looking for a book like this for ten years and was delighted to find it."--T.B., Indiana
"What could have been a very dry compendium is instead an excellent guide in an engaging style."--D.M., Philadelphia
"The book is excellent, one of the best of its kind I have ever used. Reading it makes it hard to wait for the next trip. I have completed three trips using the book and am planning many more."--N.H., Gainesville