When I started Play Outside Co., the vision was simple: make the shirt I couldn't find anywhere else. What I didn't anticipate was how many other families were looking for exactly the same thing. Here's where we are now and where we're headed.

People who don't live here assume South Florida is just beach and strip malls. People who do live here know it's one of the most ecologically strange and beautiful places in the country. Here are the spots worth knowing about, organized by what you're actually in the mood for.

Florida hiking has its own specific personality. There are no dramatic elevation changes, no crisp mountain mornings. What there is instead is an ecosystem unlike anywhere else, and heat that starts early and doesn't negotiate. Here's what we've figured out about doing it well.

I expected something scratchy and beige that smelled faintly of a health food store. What I found was the fabric I've been reaching for ever since. Here's what bamboo actually does, and why it works so well for families who spend real time outside.

I thought UPF was just the clothing version of SPF. Same idea, different surface. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out they measure completely different things — and once I did, our whole outdoor routine got a lot simpler.

Swim lessons teach swimming. Water confidence is its own thing. Here's what I figured out after packing too much, expecting too much, and eventually just getting in.

I had a pill organizer and everything. Then I figured out that the supplement I actually needed wasn't in a capsule, it was just the thing I kept putting off until the weekend.

We live somewhere people travel thousands of miles to visit, and most of us haven't actually been to the beach since March. Here's your excuse to change that.