Banana Slug at Portola Redwoods State Park, CA [Video]

Just your daily reminder that it's okay to get down on your stomach in the middle of a forest, and hang out with an infamous banana slug. Nature is nothing short of perfect, and intimate moments like this prove just how fascinating animals can be. Here's a video I grabbed off of my camera while hiking in Cali…

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Havenwoods State Forest, WI

This is Milwaukee's best-kept outdoors secret. The Mil' is already home to a plethora of excellent county parks but it’s also where two state park properties sit- Havenwoods State Forest and Lakeshore State Park. Have you ever explored Havenwoods? It's the most important property in our state park system …

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Portola Redwoods State Park, CA

I love trees. So much to the level that I even got an inked caricature of a cottonwood, tattooed on my left forearm. This strong admiration for these towering arbor beauts is the reason I had to get out to Portola Redwoods State Park , because I've never seen a sky-high redwood tree before. And that needed to chan…

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New Glarus Woods State Park, WI

In the mid-1800s, flocks of Swiss immigrants settled in New Glarus. Now proudly wearing the title of “America’s Little Switzerland,” it’s a town of 2,166 people, built on Swiss heritage and spirit with nearly every building donning a Swiss look appearing each came right out of Zermatt or Geneva. Even the chiropractor…

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