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Exploring New Port Richey
With a downtown residential district straight out of the 1920s, New Port Richey grabbed the attention of the movie industry before “talkies” were invented.
Growing up along the shores of the Pithlachascotee River, it edged a vast Gulf Coast estuary where fishing was a livelihood.
Over the past half-century, the town sprawled out and spun off suburbs up and down busy US 19.
But wild spaces remain. The most notable of them are the wilderness areas along the Gulf Coast, including Pasco Palms Preserve and the Robert Crown Wilderness Area, both popular with paddlers.
At Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park, you can walk right up to a half dozen springs along their trail system, or follow the winding waterways by kayak up along a wild shore.
To the east, where ranchlands once dominated the vast floodplains of the Anclote and Pithlachascotee Rivers, water management lands create a corridor for wildlife.
Seranova Preserve, Starkey Wilderness, and other public lands buffer against the constant addition of subdivisions along the Suncoast Parkway.
Paralleling the Parkway, the Suncoast Trail is part of the statewide Florida Coast to Coast Trail.