This park, 63 miles from Ft. Lauderdale International Airport, is yet another reason to visit Florida in the Spring. Here you can escape the chill still hanging in the air elsewhere, and spend your time boating, snorkeling, or swimming in the comparatively warm water. Although it is open all year, in the spring weather is neither too hot nor too cold.
The average temperature ranges from 66 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Be sure to visit the popular Boca Chita Key. It’s one of the park’s official “most visited places.”
Hike to the lovely lighthouse there. Hike the trail there and explore the scenery on this island too. You can also take a boat tour and do a little snorkeling around the world’s third-largest barrier reef there too. Admission to the park is free.
Visit Utah’s Capitol Reef in spring and enjoy the cooler but comfortable temperature and the newly-blooming desert wildflowers. You can hike the trails here and avoid the summer crowds. In fact, veteran visitors say you have a very good chance of having most of the hiking trail here all to yourself.
This place offers visitors a unique and active getaway. It is famous for its rugged rock formations due to its location on a water pocket fold that’s 100 miles in length. Here you can explore these colored rocks a.k.a. reefs created by many, many years of erosion.
Hike to Sunset Point as well and enjoy the incredible views. Visit Cassidy Arch and climb to the top of this 666-foot, natural arch of sandstone. Stop at the historic town of Fruita on your way home too.