Community
Big Cypress Meetup
A full family meetup at Pinecrest Group Campground: guided rides, Parks on the Air radio activations, cookout lunch, kids activities and overnight camping for twelve registered vehicles.
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Volunteer led
Everyone welcome
Explore.
Connect.
Protect.
Adventure with purpose. The South Florida Overlanders Foundation reconnects people with the outdoors through responsible recreation, and turns that time outside into stewardship, education and service for Florida's wild places.
Who we are
Adventure brought us together. Stewardship gave us a purpose.
The Foundation grew out of a community of people who simply liked exploring. We traveled together through Florida's forests, wetlands, wildlife management areas and national preserves. Trips became friendships. Friendships became a community.
The more time we spent in these places, the more obvious one thing became: they cannot be taken for granted. Development, environmental pressure, irresponsible recreation and loss of public access all threaten the land we had come to love. So the community started asking a bigger question. What if our adventures could help protect the places that make those adventures possible?
That question became this Foundation. Overlanding is still how many of us got here, and it is one of the best on-ramps we know for introducing someone to the outdoors. It is not the reason we exist.
Our mission
To inspire individuals and families to reconnect with the outdoors through responsible recreation and adventure, while fostering community and promoting stewardship, conservation, education and the preservation of natural spaces for future generations.
What we do
Four ways the mission shows up
Every program the Foundation runs sits under one of these. Most of them sit under more than one.
01
Explore
Organized outdoor adventures, camping trips, trail rides, family days and beginner friendly outings that make a first trip outside easy to say yes to.
02
Educate
Outdoor preparedness, recovery, navigation, camping skills, GMRS and amateur radio, conservation education, trail etiquette and safety, taught free.
03
Serve
Volunteer projects, community outreach, disaster response support and partnerships with the organizations already serving South Florida.
04
Protect
Trail cleanups, stewardship projects, Leave No Trace education, responsible public land use and partnerships with the agencies that manage these places.
Events
Come out with us
Foundation events are free, family friendly and capped in size to protect the land. Announcements go out first on Instagram, with dates, meeting coordinates and current trail conditions.
2026 to 2027 season calendar in progress. Dates for the next round of community meetups, stewardship days and education workshops are being confirmed with land managers now. Follow the announcements, or tell us you want in and we will let you know first.
Stewardship
Public land cleanups
Half day cleanups on the trails and access points we use most, run with the agencies that manage them. Bring gloves and a truck bed. We supply the rest.
Education
Skills workshops
Recovery and winch safety, navigation, trip planning, radio communications and camp craft. Beginner sessions assume you have never done any of it.
Impact snapshot
What we can show you today
The Foundation is new. The community behind it is not. These are the figures we can actually stand behind right now, and the ones we are about to start reporting.
2,200+Miles of route documentedFlorida Adventure Trail and South Florida Adventure Trail combined.
95+Free educational videosPublished by the community that formed the Foundation.
7Public land units documentedFrom Big Cypress to J.W. Corbett WMA.
9Partner organizationsRadio clubs, rescue groups, overland communities and charities.
The outdoors belongs to all of us.
So does the responsibility to protect it.
You do not need a built vehicle, expensive equipment or any experience at all. You need a free Saturday and people who have your back. That part is on us.