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The 637-acre Robinson Preserve, bordered by the Manatee River, Tampa Bay and Perico Bayou, offers dog-friendly hiking, biking and kayak trails and tours of...

Perico Preserve is a former 176-acre farm that dated back to the 1930s. A vegetable stand operated into the 1970s at 11700 Manatee Ave....

Explore Leffis Key on the Intracoastal Waterway in Bradenton Beach for a pleasant walk in a variety of coastal landscapes, some delightfully hilly and...

  You can’t take it with you, but you can hold a piece of history thousands of years old at Neal Preserve by simply picking up...

Grassy Point Preserve in Holmes Beach offers mangrove tunnels on the bay side of Anna Maria Island on the Intracoastal Waterway and nearly 35...

While we’re partial to sunsets on Anna Maria Island, moonrises are pretty special too.

Least terns, pelicans, royal terns, snowy plovers, gulls, black skimmers and oystercatchers are some of the shorebirds that frequent Anna Maria Island.

Manatees, or sea cows - actually relatives of the elephant - frequent waters around Anna Maria Island. They are a federally threatened species.

Dolphins frequent the Gulf of Mexico, the Intracoastal Waterway, Sarasota Bay and the Manatee River near Anna Maria Island.

Loggerhead and green sea turtles nest and hatch on Anna Maria Island.

The FISH Preserve is nearly 100 acres east of 119th St. W. in the historic fishing village of Cortez, whose residents began raising money...

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