Bike Florida: Trail Boosts Sustainable Tourism
What better way to explore some of the country’s greatest natural treasures and historic sites than a bicycle tour through the back roads of Florida? And now, you can do it any time of the year! In an effort to help make Florida tourism greener, non-profit organization Bike Florida is bringing back year-round, long-distance bicycle touring for the first time in 25 years. To inaugurate the new initiative, Herb Hiller and Linda Crider , co-founders of the modern-day Florida bicycling movement, will lead a week-long bicycle tour this October 10-16, starting and ending at Palatka, a rural county seat by the St. Johns River in northeastern Florida. “For too long there’s been no organized comfortable cycling way to discover backroads Florida,” says Crider.
