Scenic and Historic Florida Year Around Attractions
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Whether you are a visitor or a resident, you will want to know more about Florida’s State Park System which preserves the tropic lure of primitive Florida and perpetuates memorials of Florida’s absorbing history.
This system of parks and historic memorials, in areas ranging from a few hundred to 26,000 acres, embraces more than 71,000 acres of the most wonderful land in Florida.
These parks in their varied appeals offer recreation possibilities extending from a few hours diversion to extended vacations.
STATE PARKS IN OPERATION (Acreage shown in parentheses)
Hugh Taylor Birch (180) Ft. Lauderdale
Florida Caverns (1,131) Marianna
Fort Clinch (1,086) Fernandina
Gold Head Branch (1,338) Keystone Heights
Highlands Hammock (3,800) Sebring
Hillsborough River (2,777) Zephyrhills
Little Talbot Island (2,500) Jacksonville
Myakka River (26,747) Sarasota
O’Leno (1,388) High Springs
Killearn Gardens (306) Tallahassee
SCIENTIFIC AREA
John F. Rollins Bird and Plant Sanctuary (120) Ft. George Island
STATE PARKS PARTIALLY DEVELOPED
Fort Pickens (1,659) Pensacola
Manatee Springs (1,381) Chiefland
Collier-Seminole (6,423) Royal Palm Hammock
Tomoka (712) Ormond
Torreya (1,138) Rock Bluff
UNDEVELOPED STATE PARKS
Anastasia (852) St. Augustine
DeSoto (216) Titusville
Jonathan Dickinson (11,124) Hobe Sound
Lake Griffin (726) Leesburg
Pellicer Creek (729) St. Augustine
Ribaut Refuge (139) Flagler Beach
St. Andrews (1,000) Panama City
Santa Rosa (1,339) Pensacola
Suwannee River (1,831) Ellaville
HISTORIC MEMORIALS
Olustee Battlefield (5) Olustee
Battle of Marianna Marianna
Constitution Convention (12) Port St. Joe
Dade Memorial Park (40) Bushnell
Battle of Natural Bridge (6) Woodville
Confederate Monument DeFuniak Springs
Madira Bickel Mound (10) Terra Ceia Island
Yellow Bluff (2) Jacksonville
Gorrie State Park Apalachicola
Bulow Ruins and Plantation (109) Bunnell
Ormond Tomb (9.3) Korona
Addison Blockhouse (5) Ormond
Turtle Mound (10) Coronado Beach
Historic Sugar Mill (17) New Smyrna Beach
Green Mound (6) Wilbur-by-the-Sea
Yulee Sugar Mill Homosassa
Huguenot Historic Site (104) Jacksonville
Gamble Mansion—Judah P. Benjamin Memorial (5) Ellenton
PARKWAY
Florida Overseas Parkway Monroe County
(Internal Improvement Fund Lands)