If you’ve ever taken the Loxhatchee River Queen tour, you’ve probably visited the "Trapper Nelson Camp." It’s a great adventure and will acquaint you with one of Jupiter's most well-known residents.

Hugging the western reach of the Indian River Lagoon, Jonathan Dickinson State Park is a diverse ecosystem that includes ancient sand dunes, habitat for threatened species, magnificent bird watching, ...

Readers: Sometimes we need to swallow our collective pride and do a reboot! For our July 26 column, marking the 50th anniversary of the death of “Trapper Nelson,” we used a 1997 article written for ...

Readers: Few characters in Palm Beach County history are as colorful as Victor Nostokovich, more commonly known as Trapper Nelson. Fifty years ago, on July 30, 1968, the recluse suffered a demise as ...

Jensen Beach has The Mansion. Port Salerno has Pirate's Cove. Hobe Sound has Trapper Nelson's. And Stuart has the Elliott Museum and the House of Refuge. The Treasure Coast — originally inhabited by ...

First, a little bit of history: Trapper Nelson lived in northern Palm Beach County during the early ’40s; his real name was Vincent Notokowski. He was a trapper who settled on a fork of the ...

A traffic crash with injuries is causing heavy delays on Okeechobee Boulevard, according to the West Palm Beach Police Department. 6-year-old girl killed, allegedly not wearing seat belt during ...

Jonathan Dickinson State Park's timeline begins with the native Ais, Jaega and Jobe Indian tribes who originally inhabited the area, but it was a storied shipwreck that would jumpstart its written ...

A hundred yards down a hand-hewn trail through the flatwoods, a small cypress tree is taking root. Planted by a combination of state park rangers, volunteers and a small work crew, the cypress is ...

“Pretty clear cut case. He was a sick man, and he knew it. Of course we gave the case special attention…but we were pretty satisfied all along he did himself in.”- Sheriff Slater Grose It had all the ...