Seminole County’s Spring Hammock Preserve isn’t far from urban Winter Springs and Lake Mary, but it’s possible for visitors to feel far removed from civilization when traversing the land’s flood plain ...

The world is in soft focus. Wind blows the snow sideways. Clouds cling low to the nearby hills. Yet to the east, the Absaroka Mountains rise as startling and steep as the hair on a mad dog's back.

According to Montana author Norman Maclean, the only pure way to catch a trout is on a dry fly. After all, in the first lines of his A River Runs Through It, one of MacLean’s characters says that “all ...