The Fresh-Air Guide to Gainesville, Florida
What to See in Gainesville: A Local's Guide to the City's Best Spots Gainesville often gets reduced to one thing: the University of Florida. And yes, the orange and blue runs deep here. But locals know that the real Gainesville lives in the spaces between campus and the ordinary—a 120-foot sinkhole hiding a miniature rainforest, a prairie where bison and wild horses roam, and a bat colony that puts on a nightly show for half a million winged performers. This isn't a t
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What to See in Gainesville: A Local's Guide to the City's Best Spots Gainesville often gets reduced to one thing: the University of Florida. And yes, the orange and blue runs deep here. But locals know that the real Gainesville lives in the spaces between campus and the ordinary—a 120-foot sinkhole hiding a miniature rainforest, a prairie where bison and wild horses roam, and a bat colony that puts on a nightly show for half a million winged performers. This isn't a t
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