For an outdoorsy getaway where you can spend the whole day exploring the beach, check out Carpinteria State Beach in California. Just a 20-minute drive from Santa Barbara, this campground will ...

The Western New York Land Conservancy has created yet another nature preserve on Grand Island. With the newly named 38.3-acre Jim and Edna Braddell Preserve, the nonprofit land trust says they ...

Poems, speeches and music christened the new $600,000 amphitheater at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve in Liberty Township on Thursday. Shirley Heinze Lane Trust board member Dale Nichols read a few of ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – The Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve off Como Park Boulevard in Cheektowaga is 292 acres of forests, ponds, and wetlands – right in the middle of a busy suburb.

Lorain County Metro Parks hosted the inaugural Spring Green Market event May 17 at Miller Nature Preserve, 2739 Center Road in Avon. The event merged outdoor shopping with an educational ...

“It really looks like a hurricane came through.” The microburst storm left extensive damage across the 10-acre free nature preserve. While touring a small part of the preserve on ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Exploring the Sunshine State's wild places can be tough if you live in one of its major cities or suburbs. But that’s not the case in St. Petersburg, and that’s thanks ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman attacked a 12-year-old girl with a knife at a Florida nature preserve and tried to conceal her under some brush before fleeing, authorities said. Law enforcement ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — Police have released a photograph of “persons of interest” in the vandalism of machinery at a nature preserve. Police want to identify and talk to three people shown in a ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. CARPINTERIA, CA (May 29, 2025) – Girls Inc. of Carpinteria is proud to announce that its ninth cohort of Eureka! program ...