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Water SNo Park Name County Size Year Remarks Body(s) Alafia River State 6,312 acres Former phosphorus strip mine 1 Hillsborough 1996 Alafia River Park (2,556 ha) unremediated Alfred B. Maclay 1,180 acres Originally named Killearn Gardens 2 Leon 1954 Lake Hall Gardens State Park (478 ha) State Park Allen David 8,065 acres unnamed 3 Broussard Catfish Polk 1991 Home to rare scrub habitat for wildlife (3,266 ha) ponds Creek Nassau Sound Amelia Island State 230 acres Horseback riding is permitted on the 4 Nassau 1983 Atlantic Park (93 ha) beach Ocean 1,600 acres Atlantic Hurricane Dora connected Anastasia 5 Anastasia State Park St. Johns 1949 (648 ha) Ocean Island and Conch Island in 1964 Anclote Key 403 acres Gulf of 6 Pasco 1997 Accessible only by ferry or boat Preserve State Park (163 ha) Mexico 650 acres Atlantic Used for Frogman training during 7 Avalon State Park St. Lucie 1987 (263 ha) Ocean World War II Atlantic Bahia Honda State 524 acres Ocean 8 Monroe 1961 An island in the lower Florida Keys Park (212 ha) Gulf of Mexico Bald Point State 4,065 acres Gulf of Amphibious landing exercises held 9 Wakulla 1999 Park (1,646 ha) Mexico during World War II Barnacle Historic 5 acres Oldest house in Coconut Grove; built 10 Miami-Dade 1973 Biscayne Bay State Park (2 ha) in 1891 Big Lagoon State 705 acres 11 Escambia 1977 Big Lagoon Start of the Great Florida Birding Trail Park (285 ha) Big Shoals State 3,772 acres Suwannee Largest whitewater Class III rapids in 12 Hamilton 1989 Park (1,528 ha) River Florida Big Talbot Island 1,600 acres Atlantic 13 Duval 1949 Part of Talbot Islands State Parks State Park (648 ha) Ocean Bill Baggs Cape 400 acres Atlantic Home to the Cape Florida Light on 14 Miami-Dade 1967 Florida State Park (162 ha) Ocean Key Biscayne Blackwater River 590 acres Blackwater Home to 1982 Florida Champion 15 Santa Rosa 1967 State Park (239 ha) River Atlantic white cedar tree Blue Spring State 2,600 acres St. Johns Largest spring on the St. Johns River 16 Volusia 1972 Park (1,053 ha) River and a designated Manatee Refuge Bulow Creek State 5,600 acres 400-year old Fairfield oak and 11 17 Volusia 1981 Bulow Creek Park (2,268 ha) plantation sites Bulow Plantation 150 acres 18 Ruins Historic State Volusia 1945 Bulow Creek Extensive stone ruins (61 ha) Park Caladesi Island State 2,450 acres Gulf of Accessible only by ferry or boat; 108 19 Pinellas 1966 Park (992 ha) Mexico slip marina Lake Powell Camp Helen State 185 acres Day use park formerly used as private 20 Bay 1996 Gulf of Park (75 ha) resort Mexico Cayo Costa State 2,426 acres Gulf of Accessible only by ferry or boat - 21 Lee 1976 Park (983 ha) Mexico primitive cabins Cedar Key Scrub 5,028 acres Gulf of 22 Levy 1978 Very limited facilities State Reserve (2,036 ha) Mexico Cedar Key Museum 19 acres Gulf of The St. Clair Whitman house depicts 23 Levy 1960 State Park (8 ha) Mexico life in Cedar Key circa 1920 Gasparilla Charlotte Harbor 42,518 acres Pass 24 Charlotte 1978 Very limited facilities Preserve State Park (17,220 ha) Charlotte Harbor National Historic Mechanical Collier-Seminole 6,430 acres Gulf of Engineering Landmark, the Bay City 25 Collier 1947 State Park (2,604 ha) Mexico Walking Dredge used to build the Tamiami Trail through the Everglades several small Colt Creek State 5,067 acres Part of the Green Swamp Wilderness 26 Polk 2007 lakes and Park (2,052 ha) Preserve creeks Constitution 13 acres Site where first Florida constitution 27 Convention Museum Gulf 1956 none (5 ha) was drafted in 1838 State Park Crystal River National Historic Landmark and one of 61 acres 28 Archaeological State Citrus 1965 Crystal River the oldest continuously occupied pre- (25 ha) Park Columbian sites in Florida Crystal River 30,000 acres 29 Citrus 2004 Crystal River Rare spring-fed estuary Preserve State Park (12,150 ha) Atlantic Curry Hammock 1,000 acres Ocean Named for a Miami teacher whose 30 Monroe 1991 State Park (405 ha) Gulf of family owned key land Mexico Second Seminole War battle where Dade Battlefield 80 acres 31 Sumter 1921 none 105 of 108 troops were massacred by Historic State Park (32 ha) 180 Native Americans Dagny Johnson Key 2,421 acres Atlantic Park's name changed in 2001 to honor 32 Largo Hammock Monroe 1982 (981 ha) Ocean park activist Botanical State Park "Old Methuselah" is a 500-year old bald cypress; previously a private park De Leon Springs 600 acres 33 Volusia 1982 Crystal River with Jungle Cruise; 19 million gallons State Park (243 ha) (72 million liters) of 72 °F (22 °C) water daily Site of Hernando de Soto 1839 DeSoto Site Historic 5 acres 34 Leon 2003 none encampment and Gov. John W. Martin State Park (2 ha) House Gulf of 1,995 acres Very rare freshwater lake among 35 Deer Lake State Park Walton 1996 Mexico (808 ha) coastal dunes Deer Lake Cocohatchee Delnor-Wiggins 166 acres River Barrier island with white sugar sand 36 Collier 1981 Pass State Park (67 ha) Gulf of beach Mexico Devil's Millhopper 120-foot (36.6 m) deep, 500-foot 67 acres 37 Geological State Alachua 1974 sinkhole pond (152.4 m) wide sinkhole accessed by (27 ha) Park 232 step stairway Don Pedro Island 230 acres Gulf of Barrier island accessible only by boat 38 Charlotte 1985 State Park (93 ha) Mexico or ferry Dr. Julian G. Bruce Named "6th Best Beach in America" 1,962 acres Gulf of 39 St. George Island Franklin 1963 for 2011 after Hurricane Dennis (795 ha) Mexico State Park destroyed the facilities in 2005 Shows agricultural development in Dudley Farm 325 acres 40 Alachua 1989 none Florida from the 1850s through the Historic State Park (132 ha) mid-1940s St. Johns Dunns Creek State 6,000 acres 41 Putnam 2001 River Steamboat stop during the 1920s Park (2,430 ha) Dunns Creek Confederate deserters camped here and Econfina River State 4,543 acres Econfina 42 Taylor 1989 assisted Union blockcade ships during Park (1,840 ha) River the Civil War Eden Gardens State 163 acres Restored plantation home with Louis 43 Walton 1968 Tucker Bayou Park (66 ha) XVI style furniture Edward Ball 6,000 acres One of the largest and deepest 44 Wakulla Springs Wakulla 1968 Wakulla River (2,430 ha) freshwater springs in the world State Park Egmont Key State 328 acres The ruins of Fort Dade and Egmont 45 Hillsborough 1974 Tampa Bay Park (133 ha) Key Light are inside the park Ellie Schiller 210 acres Homosassa 46 Homosassa Springs Citrus 1984 Home to numerous manatees (85 ha) River Wildlife State Park Estero Bay Preserve 10,000 acres The first aquatic nature preserve 47 Lee 1974 Estero Bay State Park (4,050 ha) established in Florida Fakahatchee Strand 75,000 acres Part of the Big Cypress National 48 Collier 1975 none Preserve State Park (30,375 ha) Preserve in the Everglades Falling Waters State 171 acres Contains a 73-foot (22.3 m) waterfall, 49 Washington 1962 2-acre pond Park (69 ha) tallest in Florida Fanning Fanning Springs 1,427 acres Springs A first magnitude spring purchased by 50 Gilchrist 1997 State Park (578 ha) Suwannee the state in 1993 River Faver-Dykes State 6,045 acres 51 St. Johns 1950 Pellicer Creek A wilderness area Park (2,448 ha) Florida Caverns 1,300 acres The only Florida state park with public 52 Jackson 1942 Chipola River State Park (527 ha) cave tours Forest Capital 14 acres Includes a late 1800s Florida Cracker 53 Taylor 1967 none Museum State Park (6 ha) homestead Fort Clinch State 1,427 acres Construction of Fort Clinch began in 54 Nassau 1935 Amelia River Park (578 ha) 1847 Lake Fort Cooper State 710 acres Holathlikaha 55 Citrus 1977 On the Withlacoochee State Trail Park (287 ha) (dried up in 2010) Fort Foster Historic 30 acres Part of Hillsborough River State Park; 56 Hillsborough 1935 none Site (12 ha) replica fort built in 1972 Fort George Island 1,600 acres Atlantic Hurricane Dora connected Anastasia 57 Duval 1949 Cultural State Park (648 ha) Ocean Island and Conch Island in 1964 National Historic Landmark originally Fort Mose Historic 24 acres 58 St. Johns 2005 none known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa State Park (10 ha) de Mosé Tucker Cove Fort Pierce Inlet 340 acres Used for Frogman training during 59 St. Lucie 1973 Atlantic State Park (138 ha) World War II Ocean Pre-civil war fort abandoned, Fort Zachary Taylor 87 acres Straits of 60 Monroe 1974 restoration began in the late 1960s by Historic State Park (35 ha) Florida volunteers Fred Gannon Rocky 357 acres Named in honor of United States Air 61 Okaloosa 1966 Rocky Bayou Bayou State Park (145 ha) Force Colonel who preserved site Gainesville- 16 miles Boulware 62 Hawthorne State Alachua 1989 Passes through Paynes Prairie (26 km) Springs Trail Sole surviving antebellum mansion in Gamble Plantation 87 acres 63 Manatee 1927 Manatee River south Florida, once a 3,500-acre (1,416 Historic State Park (35 ha) ha) sugarcane plantation Gamble Rogers 144 acres Atlantic Renamed from Flagler Beach State 64 Flagler 1961 Memorial State Park (58 ha) Ocean Recreation Area in 1992 Gasparilla Island Charlotte 128 acres Charlotte Gasparilla Island Lights were lit in 65 1983 State Park Lee (52 ha) Harbor 1890 George Crady Nassau Sound 8,000 ft 66 Bridge Fishing Pier Duval 1999 Atlantic Pedestrian-only fishing bridge (2,440 m) State Park Ocean Western Lake Grayton Beach State 2,200 acres Popular pristine beach offers cabins & 67 Walton 1968 Gulf of Park (891 ha) camping, boating, fishing and trails Mexico Henderson Beach 222 acres Gulf of U.S.
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