Welcome to the Friday Waypoint where you'll find the latest updates about opportunities & activities with the Florida Trail Association.

Our Executive Director Royce Gibson was recently featured on the Orange Blaze podcast!

Tune in to learn more about the Florida Trail Association and our Close the Gaps campaign that strives to eliminate 300 miles of gaps in the Florida Trail.

The podcast is available on streaming platforms and the Orange Blaze podcast website, linked below.

Thank you, Misti Little, for this great conversation.

Join the Florida Trail Association to support our work to keep the trail maintained and accessible to hikers.

Only one more week to submit your artwork to the 2023 Gateway Community Postcard Contest!

Help us create a postcard for each of our 16 Gateway Communities and submit an artwork depicting your favorite Gateway Community or the Trail surrounding it (a landmark, a community event, landscape, wildlife, candid photos of people). Selfies and close up compositions of plants and animals will be admired but not selected. The contest is open to photos, digital art, scans of drawings, paintings, or other visual art forms.

Be sure to tell us which Gateway Community your image represents! Applications are open until August 18, 2023. Winners of the contest will be notified by early September and will receive 3 16-postcard sets and a framed photo of their winning submission.