{"id":231687,"date":"2026-04-14T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:42:10","slug":"wild-trails-club-opens-floridas-outdoors-to-eckerd-students-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231687\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Trails Club opens Florida\u2019s outdoors to Eckerd students &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accessibility remains central to the club\u2014trips are designed to be low-cost or free with transportation, campsites, and some gear provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done guided tours at a lot of restoration preserves,\u201d Hazel explains. \u201cOne of the more impressive ones that\u2019s pretty close is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymanatee.org\/connect\/locations\/location-details\/robinson-preserve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robinson Preserve<\/a>. It used to be farmland, and they totally restructured it to allow for the growth of mangroves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group has also toured with Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tbep.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Estuary Program<\/a> Maya Burke, an experience that allowed students to see conservation efforts happening close to campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our newest club leaders had never really camped or hiked before,\u201d Mary says, \u201cNow she\u2019s been on basically every single trip we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accessibility remains central to the club\u2014trips are designed to be low-cost or free with transportation, campsites, and some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,5724,28673,103663],"class_list":["post-231687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-travel","tag-hiking","tag-wild-trails-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}