This is a hiking trail like walking the 20 yards to my mailbox is an undue burden on my endurance…read more The entire trail is only about 1/2 mile long, yet it is pretty nice. It's more like an unpaved road that hasn't been driven on in many years...probably because that is exactly what it is. River Road was a frequent hang-out on weekend nights when I was in high school. It was nothing but dirt, mud, bonfires, beer, and making out with chicks. Now it is actually quite a serene and nice park, with paved roads, pavilions, benches, etc. The new addition farther in has even nicer views of the river, with older trees and great landscaping. You'll find the trailhead at the end of the road, where the road circles around a parking island. The first half is very straight and there isn't much to look at. Immediately before the first turn, there is a short side trail (and when I say "short," I mean about 15 yards) to a small landing where you can peep the bayou and try to avoid being gnawed upon by gators and skeeters. I didn't see any of either, but it's still fairly chilly. Get past the first right-hand turn in the trail and you'll have the water on your left. Good views, if you like fresh water stuff. It's called the Blackwater River due to all of the tannins in it, which make the water very dark. The Loch Ness monster could be a foot under the surface and you'd never know it. I used to swim in that water 30 years ago, but if you started throwing handfuls of $100 bills in it today, I'd wish them bon voyage...no way I'd get in that soup. A couple of minutes later, you are at the end of the trail, met with a steel gate at the road and entrance to Whiting Landing, the Navy boat and recreation park. If you don't have military ID, you can't enter here, so turn around and walk back to your vehicle. It's not a sweat-inducing struggle or a cardio workout, but it was a break in my day to reflect on life and commune with nature. I saw only one other person, a lady walking her wet dog. There are several nice covered benches on which to rest, but if you are so thoroughly out of shape that you need to sit down more than once, you probably shouldn't be risking heart failure in such a secluded place. Although...I had strong cell coverage during the stroll (Verizon). This would be a great place to walk your dog(s), BTW. I didn't see any wildlife, nor did I see any signs of wildlife, but I'd wager that there are critters in them woods and marshes. If you are looking for a brief respite from the fast-paced life of downtown Milton, hop over the bridge, turn left onto River Road, and earn your notch for strolling the Old River Trail.

This is a beautiful park right off of the ocean front. There are ponds with the docs and various…read morestatues and walking trails to use and everything was very clean and well-maintained. Come and sit on a bench and watch the little ducks swim or a walk around. There is plenty of parking in a nice parking lot off of the main street.

Nice park to take a walk! We came here while in Pensacola, Florida. We took pictures and came it…read morefor a walk.

This very small park is located at the southeast portion of Pensacola Regional Airport. to the…read morePensacola International Airport property! It is set way back along a somewhat secluded road called Jerry L Maygarden Road. It may seem like you're going onto private property, but you're not! The park is between the SkyWarrior Flight Training & Pensacola Aviation Center to the left and the Pensacola Air Flight School & the Pensacola Navy Flying Club to the right. There's a gate at the entrance of this park. It is free to the public. The park is open from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM daily. There are picnic tables of which one has shade. It rained a lot while I was visiting Pensacola in August. The park looks like a mini airport with runways, control tower, and airplanes! Although there is a mini Control Tower (observation tower) at this park, I could not get to the stairs without stepping into a very large pool of water! I really wanted to go up there, but I didn't want to get my shoes soaking wet! The main walkway is a mock runway. The smiling red, blue, and yellow airplane toys are off to the side. Too cute!!! This discovery park is also known as the General Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. Aviation Discovery Park. General "Chappie" was a Pensacola native who became the first African American four-star general to serve in the U.S. military. There are tribute plaques to him and other individuals important to aviation. I stayed here for about a half hour and watched the planes land & take off at the Pensacola Regional Airport. Hubby & I used to park near the Los Angeles Airport (LAX) way back in the day before the road was barricaded and closed to the public. We'd watch the planes take off! I miss that and it was nice to be able to do that here for a bit!

Great area to take a kid for snack and out door time! You can hear the control towerread more

Great park tucked away. Nice pavilions to have your gatherings at. Enjoyed the water and watching…read morethe boats go past. The one thing was the port a potty's were not very clean. But overall a nice experience and will go back.

PLEASE READ THE REVIEWS AT THE BOTTOM. The reviews at the top are misleading…read more If you are looking up this place on Yelp, I would highly recommend that you turn around and go somewhere else if you value your life. This establishment is run by a shady couple who are racist and just want your money. A group of us went to kayak with this company because we found a good deal on groupon. A woman by the name of Hannah (Finnish accent) who we contacted by phone told us to meet her on the side of the highway and that she would take us to the kayaking site. After we got to the site we had to unload the kayaks from the trucks by ourselves and carry it to the river. Her husband, Will, showed up with the remaining kayaks 45 minutes later. They didn't know any of our names. They didn't have us fill out any personal information or emergency contact numbers in the event of an emergency. They handed us life jackets and told us that we didn't have to wear them if we didn't want to. Before we started kayaking, Will decided to lecture us on his Christian beliefs and how Hinduism & Buddhism were wrong. He kept insisting that the christian in our group should educate the hindus in our group about christianity. He then kept continuing this tirade about Jews, Evolution, 7 headed dragon ? We didn't receive any information regarding what to do in an emergency or how the water was in the river or what to expect. He just kept saying to stick to the florida side on the left. When we started kayaking, we found out that there was a strong current which lead our boat capsizing in the middle of the river. We were stuck in the middle of river perdido with no cell phone reception and hanging on to a tree stump for our dear lives hoping help would arrive. After 30 minutes, a couple who were hiking on the Alabama side of the river (Chelsea and Billy) risked their lives and their 2 dogs to help us ashore. When we called Will and told him what happened, he told us to get back on the kayak and to keep going despite the strong current. Whenever we called him he didn't know who we were or our names because he was bringing many people to kayak. These people have no idea how to run a kayak company and they really don't care about you. For all the troubles we went through he said he would give us a discount for our next trip and gave us sprite as consolation. NO THANK YOU. They use the low price on groupon to lure beginner level kayakers. BEWARE.

Truly an absurd (and, by the end, surreal) experience. I called the day before, was asked a quick…read morebarrage of questions (Kayaks, canoes, or tubes? What time? You know where it's at?), and found myself wondering why the person answering the phone had not asked for my name or phone number. It turns out that these details are trivial to a man with so much on his mind. Cut to the next day. My girlfriend and I are excited (we'd been looking forward to this for a month) as we hurriedly assemble our waterproofed supplies, sunscreen, bathing suits, etc. We make it to Fran's Country Grill (that is the address found above; the official address is a P.O. Box) at 12 P.M. sharp and... nothing. 20 minutes pass, so I give the number another call. "Oh, yep, I'll be there in 10 minutes." Still no inquiry regarding my name or phone number, which still had me scratching my head. I was still scratching my head 35 minutes later (don't overscratch those heads, kids), when we finally see a truck with the company name pull up. By this time we were both pretty steamed, and had been almost ready to cut our losses and spend our day off doing something else. If only he had taken 5 minutes longer, the rest of this... event could have been avoided. We have a bewildering 10 minute talk with a man who did not seem to introduce himself (and who did not ask my name), but who would later turn out to be named Will. This part is kind of a blur, but he apologizes for being late (he had, apparently, been left waiting by another group... understandable, though a phone call would have been nice), gives us directions to a parking area near the Perdido River, and tells us that he will meet us there in ten minutes. 25 minutes later (it is now nearing 1:30 P.M.), he shows up with a canoe, and this part is kind of a blur too. Let me explain: he seems like a personable fellow, but he talks. And talks. He told us about this particular landing, and then about the landing a mile down the river, about the nature trail leading there, and then about the local government agency which was cleaning things up, and then about how there is a place that we can reserve for up to 25 people at the landing down the river, and how we can make these reservations online, all the while occasionally veering back to the issue at hand: the river, how long the trip will take, etc. Imagine all of this delivered very rapidly, with 5 discrete ideas touched upon each minute. Dizzying and time consuming. I think that about 15 minutes passed. We finally get into the car, and something a bit traumatic happened. Will, upon getting a captive audience, becomes part bible scholar and part conspiracy theorist. Ignoring all social cues, he started in on a rich, savory stew of the following topics: the dead sea scrolls; how Jews influenced Google to replace "Yahweh" with "The Name" (these two topics took up much of our time); how the Jews prefer Elohim to YHWH, the former referring to many gods (Ra was one example), which Christians think refers to the trinity (but apparently doesn't); something about how Muslims consider Christians infidels for believing in a trinity, and how Jews consider both groups infidels... I'm going to stop here. I want to emphasize that I showed no interest whatsoever in any of these topics, except that I thought it was interesting that Google had indexed the dead sea scrolls. All he got from me otherwise were a variety of guttural sounds along the lines of "hm." Moving forward (my apologies, gentle reader, but I want you to be prepared): the Mayan calendar, 2012, and how it's going to be a catastrophe. This was all said with a gleam of zealotry that was not present in any of his previous intimations, as I believe that he was genuinely trying to keep us from harm. That did not stop this part from making me feel slightly used and trod upon. Apparently my girlfriend and I were just as "in the dark" as the last couple, as we did not know about the following: that the planets will line up in 2012, and that it will do "all sorts of stuff" to the tides; that not only the planets will lines up, but the SUN will line up, causing who knows what calamity; that astronomers are either ignoring or covering these phenomena up (look up 2012 on wikipedia... there's nothing to cover up, of course); interspersed with these grave admonitions was something about the Antikythera mechanism, an archaeological find that... I'm going to stop again, just because I'm tired, and you must be too. Suffice it to say that we didn't get in the water until about 2:15, and that all we could talk about was Will. We both felt uneasy, slightly disturbed, and more than a little upset. It's no fun to be held captive to social niceties (which I have since discarded, being on the internet) in a moving car with a stranger. We didn't know what, exactly, to be offended about, as his hour of speaking seemed to have no central thesis or upshot. We left the experience feeling drained. The river was nice.

The staff running this river operation are super nice and accommodating. We had a group of 16. If…read moreYou bring your own tube, you have to pay $6.00 per person and they will take you to the river drop off. This tubing run is longer than most.

Adventures Perdido River is the best kayaking/ canoeing experience of all the rivers and staff in…read moreNW FL.

Beautiful park and you can cross over to a look-out viewing station of the inter-coast. Great for a…read morewalk and to touch some grass. Every time I go to this park, I remember my uncle that migrated from Cuba in 61 and went to the Vietnam war.

What a great location and memorial for Veterans!…read more The first thing I noticed when I was parking, was the special purple space reserved for Combat Wounded Veterans. That's awesome! Veterans Memorial Park is adjacent to Admiral Mason Park. They share the 5.5 acres of land. The Veterans Memorial Park pays tribute to the American Revolution, Korean War, WWI, WWII, Marine Aviation, Submarine Vets, Purple Heart, Minuteman, Persian Gulf War, Gold Star Families, and Global War on Terror. They have reserved a spot for the future home for the Military War Dog Memorial. Veterans Memorial Park has been here since 1992. At the main entrance is a flag court with flags from each of the branches of our Military. There's a UH-1 Cobra Helicopter near Wall South. It's placement is visible from the road, but what is really cool is that when you are facing Wall South, the helicopter is high enough that it seems like it is hovering nearby! Wall South is a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. This wall has 58,315 names of the dead and missing. There's a lake in the Admiral Mason Park with walking trails and benches. It seems like a great place to hang out at. It was hot out, so I just took a quick look from the Veterans Memorial Park area. Something else to see nearby - just across Bayfront Parkway is Hawkshaw Lagoon Memorial Park, which has a sculpture called "The Sanctuary" by Sam Nettles. This is a National Memorial for Missing Children. Might be worth a little walk across the street to see. Be careful crossing the busy street because cars may not stop even though there is a marked pedestrian walkway. Thank you to all the veterans who have served our country and to those who are currently serving!

Hawkshaw Lagoon Memorial Park, completed in 1996, is the only National Memorial for Missing…read moreChildren. You walk across the pedestrian bridge which is over part of the lagoon. On the observation deck is a bronze statue called "The Sanctuary" created by Sam Nettles. On the plaque: "The Sanctuary" is both a shelter and a memorial. The arms and hands form a shelter and represent protection, our gift to our children. The shelter also forms a memorial in which resides a sacred spiritualism that is universal and primal. / In the family grouping, the child completes the circle, making the couple a family. The parents focus on their child and in turn, the child focuses its love and trust on the parents. This simple exchange is one of the essential truths of life. We all love our children and want to protect them. / Let us hope that we can begin to try to understand and appreciate that which we memorialize - the families, parents, and friends of lost and missing children. The view is serene and overlooks Pensacola Bay. You can get a good view of the Pensacola Bay Bridge from here. Something else to see nearby - just across Bayfront Parkway is Veterans Memorial Park. It's really worth walking across the street to see. Be careful crossing the busy street because cars may not stop even though there is a marked pedestrian walkway. Chances are you've parked over at the memorial and have walked here since there's really no parking where this memorial is.

The missing children's memorial is beautiful. It is a touching memorial that I still think about…read moreoccasionally out of the blue, and we visited over ten years ago. Perhaps most memorable, aside from the statue, was the fact that there were happy birthday balloons tied to the fence the day we went. This is an important and well thought out memorial, and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.