By Susan Seliger
Get outside and enjoy the beauty of nature on Earth Day. Are you willing to venture further than your backyard, but you don’t know where to go? Here are some cool tools and great resources to help you rediscover the wonder of it all.
1. Visit a nature preserve: The Nature Conservancy has a cool tool – just click on their map or the state-by-state listing and discover a nature preserve near you.
2. Take a hike: The Localhikes web site provides information on local hiking opportunities near both large and small metropolitan areas in the United States.
3. Go hiking, biking and backpacking: Trails.com will help you find the places to go whether you travel on two legs or two wheels.
4. Biking and/or horsebackriding in the US: Rails to trails Conservancy is a great resource for biking trails and an organization devoted to converting old, unused rail lines into wonderful biking, hiking and horsebackriding trails. Check out Trail Link.
5. Scenic Drives: If you have elderly relatives who are not up to a strenuous walk, but still want to enjoy the beauty of nature, take a look at these lists of scenic drives and scenic byways will help. Get into that electric vehicle or hybrid (we know you have one), roll down the windows and see what nature has to offer.
Photo credit: www.BecomeNatural.com