While camping in the Tampa area over Thanksgiving, we wanted to check out nearby nature places. We had been to Lettuce Lake Regional Park in Tampa before, but it had been years since we where there. This park offers a boardwalk trail that goes through the swamp and woods. It's... Read more →

On Thanksgiving day this year my family was camping in the Tampa area. We decided to check out Alafia River State Park. My husband and son wanted to hit the mountain biking trails there, so my daughter and I figured we would do some hiking at the same time. The... Read more →

While camping at Lazydays RV Resort in the Tampa area, we decided to go hiking at Hillsborough River State Park, located in Thonotosassa, Florida. The park offers numerous shorter hikes that you can take, some of which will take you by the river. We took the Hillsborough River via Baynard... Read more →

Over Thanksgiving week, we camped at Lazydays RV Resort in the Tampa area. We wanted to stay there so that we could do things in Tampa. One of the things we did was to take the sunset boat tour that is offered by Tampa Bay Fun Boat. We reserved our... Read more →

Let me say that when we go camping, we like to stay in state parks and other places that are nature oriented. However, we wanted to spend some time in Tampa over Thanksgiving, and it's hard to find something with a full hookup in the Tampa area. The state parks... Read more →