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By: Jennifer Wagner, Land Planning & Design Project Manager Parks as the Great Equalizer Parks and playgrounds have the ability to change the health

The county's string of parks along with golf courses and trails may soon be maintained without glyphosate.

It’s a piece of furniture, but it is helping create an environment where everyone is included, kindness is key and all you’ve got to do is take a seat. It’s called the Buddy Bench and a Boca Raton-based catalog company is sending it all over the country to parks and school playgrounds. In South Florida, kids are embracing the mission of the Buddy Bench. It’s the easiest thing to do. If a kid feels lonely, left out, they sit on the bench.

Reality check: Not everyone can quit their jobs to hike the Pacific Crest Trail or Appalachian Trail. But if you have a week or two of vacation, you can complete one of these long trails.

When you think about harnessing the power of solar energy for your home, the cost point of solar panels may be intimidating. But, what about a low-cost way to use solar power? With solar powered landscape lights, it’s possible to illuminate your outdoor space without connection to a power source—oth

If you remember proudly displaying your stitches or plaster cast as a badge of honor after suffering a fall from the monkey bars, then you may also remember playing on some of this other equipment that is slowly disappearing from our public playscapes.

Fun and unexpected features like slides, pirate ship forts, indoor skate parks, tree houses and trap doors turn these 13 homes into private playgrounds.

iOS: Navigating along roads is easy—just start up Google Maps or Waze—but finding your way on a trail in the woods tends to require a patchwork of PDFs, paper maps, and apps that only work for one park or system. Hikepack aims to change that.

The perfect dozen: Embark on one of these 12 treks, and turn America's most iconic preserves into your own private paradise.