Both of our places sit on protected water, and the county has mapped the whole coast into an official paddling trail system. You can be in a mangrove tunnel twenty minutes after leaving the door — or have a kayak delivered to the driveway and never load a roof rack at all.
You can fish four completely different ways from our doorstep — a deep-sea charter out of John’s Pass, a pier where no licence is needed, the surf a few hundred yards from the house, or a freshwater lake full of bass. Here’s how each works, and what licence you actually need.
A trap and skeet club fifteen minutes from our Seminole place, a multi-discipline club that’s been running since 1966, two well-run indoor ranges, and one of Florida’s best sporting clays courses about forty-five minutes north. All of them rent guns and teach beginners, so you don’t need to travel with anything.
There’s a PGA Tour course twenty-five minutes north of us and a municipal course two miles from our Largo door. In between sits a dozen more — some of the best value public golf in Florida, playable year round. Here’s how to pick.
Two shaded miles of paved trail through pine flatwoods, a lake full of bass, thirteen picnic shelters — and, unusually, a bike rental concession right inside the park. If you’re staying with us and didn’t bring bikes, this is the easiest fix there is.
A 35-foot tower at the end of an elevated boardwalk, with Boca Ciega Bay and the barrier islands laid out in front of you. Add 186 acres of seven different habitats, a bird list of 175-plus species, a 1.5-acre dog park, and Ice Age fossils under your feet — all about two miles from our Seminole rental.
Three miles of shaded paved loops around two lakes, a dog park, boardwalks over the wetlands, and a playground — twelve minutes from our door. If you’ve got young kids, a rented cruiser, or an hour before dinner, this is the one.
Four and a half shaded miles linking a string of Clearwater parks to the waterfront in Safety Harbor — and the hinge that connects every other trail in the county to every other one. Short, easy, and it ends in the nicest small downtown on this side of the bay.
Twelve miles down the quiet east side of Pinellas County, mostly under power lines. It isn’t the prettiest ride on this coast and we won’t pretend otherwise — but it’s the piece that makes everything else connect, and the park at its northern end is worth the drive on its own.
Nine and a half miles of car-free path straight across open water, with a 45-foot bridge in the middle that gives you Tampa Bay on both sides at once. If you ride one thing while you’re here that isn’t on Pinellas soil, make it this.