After a bipartisan uproar last year about a proposal dubbed the “Great Outdoors Initiative,” the Florida Senate on Tuesday ...

The "Great Outdoors Initiative" would only affect state parks, but South Florida is home to three national parks. The biggest difference is the governing body that oversees them. State parks are ...

A move by Florida lawmakers to protect state parks from development like golf courses and tennis courts cleared its first ...

A bill filed by a Republican state senator would put big guardrails around any future plans by the state to develop state ...

One of the original Florida state parks, opened to the public in 1935 ... Use the exit for Bristol to get on SR 12 south to NW Torreya Park Road, and follow it to the end. From eastern cities ...

Each of these South Florida parks is within a day's drive of the Miami ... Flamingo and Long Pine Key campsites Park Address ...

"I want to make sure we are protecting our parks," state Sen. Gayle Harrell told POLITICO. "But I also want to make sure ...

A House Republican on Thursday filed a proposal that would prevent the development of such things as golf courses, pickleball courts and lodges in state parks. The proposal (HB 209), filed by Rep.

This southeastern state is chock-full of national forests, state parks and wilderness ... this north-central Florida state park (about 45 miles south of Gainesville) has developed attractions ...

A House Republican Thursday filed a proposal to prevent development of things like golf courses, pickleball courts, and lodges at Florida’s state parks ... of the park south of the main entrance ...