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Mitchell Hill Lake Trail, Jefferson Memorial Forest – Fairdale, Kentucky
At over 6,600 acres, Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest municipally-owned urban forest in the United States, and is managed by Louisville Metro Parks. It was established in 1948 to honor the area’s dead WWII servicemen. Since then it has been enlarged and has been rededicated to honor all who have served in the military.…
Allegheny Mound Trail, Plum Run Prairie Preserve – Peebles, Ohio
For reasons that are not clear to me, we did a terrible job getting ourselves out to the prairies during their peak earlier this summer. With time running out on August, on a surprisingly temperate day with a nice breeze, we decided to return to Plum Run Prairie Preserve to capture a part of what…
The Blue Hole and Jack Watson Trails, National Key Deer Refuge – Big Pine Key, Florida
Our trip to southernmost Florida and Key West was peppered with nature – a two day stay in Everglades National Park to start the trip, a cruise out to the Dry Tortugus National Park mid-trip, and a jaunt up the Keys to Big Pine Key to hike at the National Key Deer Refuge to close…