| Florida State Parks | |
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Logo of the Florida State Parks | |
| Area | More than 819,000 acres (331,000 ha) |
| Established | 1935 |
| Visitors | 28 million (in 2024–25) |
| Governing body | Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Recreation and Parks |
| Website | www |
The Florida state park system consists of 176 units managed by the Florida Park Service (FPS), a division of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. It encompasses more than 819,000 acres (331,000 ha) distributed across 63 of Florida's 67 counties.
Established in 1935, the system ranges from pre-Columbian archaeological sites to first-magnitude springs, coral reefs, and roadless barrier islands accessible only by boat. Thirteen units contain National Natural Landmarks. Several parks began as private tourist attractions: Homosassa Springs and Rainbow Springs became state parks around 1990, Weeki Wachee Springs in 2008, and Silver Springs in 2013. The newest unit in the Florida park system is Shoal River Headwaters State Park in Walton County, which was acquired on October 7, 2025, and opened to the public on January 23, 2026.
In fiscal year 2024–25, more than 28 million people visited the state parks and trails, generating over $75 million in revenue from user fees and concessions. The division had about 1,040 full-time-equivalent positions and was supported by 30,880 volunteers, while 80 citizen support organizations contributed $5.3 million in capital improvements, equipment, and maintenance. The Florida Park Service was the first state park system to win the National Recreation and Park Association's National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management four times, in 1999, 2005, 2013, and 2019.
As of the Florida Park Service's July 2026 jurisdiction report, the system has 57 state parks, 34 state recreation areas, 28 state preserves, 20 historic sites, 10 state trails, and 27 units in smaller classifications such as museums, archaeological sites, and ornamental gardens. The system's history, including the racial segregation of its parks until the mid-1960s, is covered at Florida Park Service. That article also covers Royal Palm State Park, which was never run by the park service: the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs ran it from 1916 until 1947, when it became part of Everglades National Park.

| Park name | Image | Acquired | County and location | Area | Notable feature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison Blockhouse Historic State Park | January 12, 1945 | Volusia 29°19′56″N 81°05′44″W / 29.3322°N 81.0956°W | 147.93 acres (59.9 ha) | Coquina ruins of an 1816 plantation kitchen fortified as "Camp M'Rae" during the Second Seminole War; the park is not open to the public: 84, 117 | |
| Alafia River State Park | December 19, 1996 | Hillsborough 27°46′25″N 82°07′12″W / 27.7735°N 82.1201°W | 7,717.8 acres (3,123 ha) | A reclaimed phosphate mine whose mining left some of the most radical elevation changes in Florida, making it a hot spot for mountain biking | |
| Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park | March 31, 1953 | Leon 30°31′43″N 84°15′37″W / 30.5286°N 84.2602°W | 1,170.19 acres (474 ha) | Ornamental gardens of azaleas, camellias, and other plants designed and built by Alfred B. Maclay, who bought the plantation in 1923 and used it mainly as a winter retreat; the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 as the Killearn Plantation Archeological and Historic District | |
| Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park | December 20, 1991 | Polk 27°58′39″N 81°27′10″W / 27.9775°N 81.4528°W | 8,403.66 acres (3,401 ha) | Part of the Florida Forever Catfish Creek project, which protects Lake Wales Ridge scrub; imperiled species include the Florida scrub jay, Florida sand skink, and blue calamintha bee | |
| Amelia Island State Park | July 15, 1983 | Nassau 30°31′13″N 81°26′21″W / 30.5204°N 81.4393°W | 235.68 acres (95.4 ha) | South end of Amelia Island, Florida's northernmost barrier island, preserving beach dune, maritime hammock, flatwoods, and wetlands; a stable concession leads horseback tours along the Atlantic beach: park summary, 21 | |
| Anastasia State Park | March 31, 1949 | St. Johns 29°53′08″N 81°16′45″W / 29.8856°N 81.2791°W | 1,593.17 acres (645 ha) | Contains the NRHP-listed Spanish Coquina Quarries, the main source of the coquina used to build the Castillo de San Marcos (begun in 1672) and other buildings in Spanish colonial St. Augustine | |
| Anclote Key Preserve State Park | April 1, 1960 | Pasco, Pinellas 28°10′39″N 82°50′25″W / 28.1776°N 82.8402°W | 12,209.61 acres (4,941 ha) | Barrier islands 3 miles (4.8 km) offshore near Tarpon Springs; the 110-foot (34 m) Anclote Key Lighthouse was first built in 1887, and Three Rooker Island is a nesting site for the American oystercatcher and a wintering site for the piping plover | |
| Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park | December 6, 2000 | Martin 27°05′37″N 80°12′47″W / 27.0935°N 80.2131°W | 4,886.06 acres (1,977 ha) | Mostly mesic flatwoods and depression marsh, with hydric hammock lining a blackwater stream in the St. Lucie River system; habitat for the Florida sandhill crane and wood stork | |
| Avalon State Park | December 12, 1985 | St. Lucie 27°32′38″N 80°19′29″W / 27.5439°N 80.3248°W | 657.58 acres (266.1 ha) | Atlantic beach where the U.S. Navy trained landing craft crews and its new frogmen, forerunners of the Navy SEALs, during World War II; submerged obstacles built for the training remain along the shore | |
| Bahia Honda State Park | September 21, 1961 | Monroe 24°39′59″N 81°15′44″W / 24.6664°N 81.2623°W | 496.74 acres (201.0 ha) | Site of the 1999 discovery of a Miami blue butterfly population, after the species was believed extirpated from the Keys; the Old Bahia Honda Bridge, built for Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad, is listed on the NRHP | |
| Bald Point State Park | September 2, 1999 | Franklin 29°56′53″N 84°24′17″W / 29.9480°N 84.4046°W | 12,154.21 acres (4,919 ha) | Protects 31 recorded archaeological sites, among them the Tucker site midden (8FR4), occupied from the Deptford through the Fort Walton periods and containing 70 human burials: 96 | |
| The Barnacle Historic State Park | June 8, 1973 | Miami-Dade 25°43′26″N 80°14′31″W / 25.7238°N 80.2420°W | 9.59 acres (3.88 ha) | Waterfront home that yacht designer Ralph Middleton Munroe built in 1891 and named The Barnacle, furnished to show his family's life there from 1887 to 1933; listed on the NRHP as the Ralph M. Munroe House | |
| Big Lagoon State Park | March 1, 1943 | Escambia 30°18′55″N 87°24′39″W / 30.3153°N 87.4107°W | 706.77 acres (286.0 ha) | A gateway site on the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail; seabirds and shorebirds including the least tern, sandwich tern, and Caspian tern use the park during migration: 79 | |
| Big Shoals State Park | November 19, 1986 | Hamilton, Columbia 30°20′20″N 82°42′31″W / 30.3390°N 82.7086°W | 1,681.01 acres (680 ha) | Contains the largest whitewater rapids in Florida, where the Suwannee River crosses a limestone outcrop; the shoals are the state's only Class III rapids | |
| Big Talbot Island State Park | August 20, 1982 | Duval 30°28′50″N 81°26′44″W / 30.4805°N 81.4456°W | 2,679.39 acres (1,084 ha) | A barrier island preserved from development, known for the sun-bleached skeletons of fallen trees on Boneyard Beach and the exposed hardpan formations of Blackrock Beach: 2, 54 | |
| Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park | March 31, 1966 | Miami-Dade 25°40′32″N 80°09′33″W / 25.6755°N 80.1591°W | 506.37 acres (204.9 ha) | Site of the Cape Florida Lighthouse, first built in 1825; the tower is one of the oldest standing structures in South Florida and is listed on the NRHP | |
| Blackwater River State Park | June 14, 1968 | Santa Rosa 30°42′27″N 86°52′32″W / 30.7074°N 86.8756°W | 635.82 acres (257.3 ha) | Certified a Registered State Natural Feature in 1980 for its exceptional illustration of Florida's natural history; one of the largest and oldest Atlantic white cedars grows beside the river and was recognized as a Florida Champion tree in 1982 | |
| Blue Spring State Park | August 14, 1972 | Volusia 28°56′53″N 81°20′28″W / 28.9480°N 81.3411°W | 2,659.05 acres (1,076 ha) | Spring run that serves as a winter refuge for the Florida manatee, given legal protection by the Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978; park staff and researchers count and identify the individual manatees that winter there: 26, 47 | |
| Bulow Creek State Park | May 20, 1981 | Flagler, Volusia 29°22′43″N 81°06′56″W / 29.3787°N 81.1155°W | 5,698.14 acres (2,306 ha) | Home to the Fairchild Oak, an old-growth live oak estimated to be almost 500 years old, with a trunk circumference of more than 25 feet (7.6 m): 2, 120 | |
| Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park | January 12, 1945 | Flagler 29°26′05″N 81°08′34″W / 29.4346°N 81.1427°W | 147.97 acres (59.9 ha) | Coquina ruins of the sugar mill of the Bulow family's plantation (1821–1836), destroyed when raids at the outbreak of the Second Seminole War wiped out the area's plantations: 2, 92, 110 | |
| Caladesi Island State Park | April 18, 1966 | Pinellas 28°01′16″N 82°48′51″W / 28.0210°N 82.8141°W | 2,420.04 acres (979 ha) | Undeveloped barrier island reached only by boat, including a ferry from Honeymoon Island State Park; named America's best beach in 2008 by Stephen Leatherman ("Dr. Beach") | |
| Camp Helen State Park | June 7, 1996 | Bay 30°16′23″N 85°59′32″W / 30.2730°N 85.9923°W | 223.33 acres (90.4 ha) | Contains the NRHP-listed Camp Helen Historic District, the buildings of a former Avondale Mills employee retreat | |
| Cayo Costa State Park | December 21, 1976 | Lee 26°39′37″N 82°14′25″W / 26.6604°N 82.2402°W | 2,666.87 acres (1,079 ha) | Barrier island reached only by boat; contains the NRHP-listed Mark Pardo Shellworks, a shell works and midden of the Caloosahatchee culture dating from about 500 to 1500 | |
| Cedar Key Museum State Park | June 19, 1960 | Levy 29°09′08″N 83°02′56″W / 29.1522°N 83.0490°W | 18.63 acres (7.54 ha) | Museum displaying the shells, butterflies, prehistoric artifacts, and documents collected by Cedar Key resident St. Clair Whitman, whose house also stands on the grounds; a historic marker commemorates naturalist John Muir's 1867 arrival at Cedar Key at the end of his A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf | |
| Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve | December 27, 1978 | Levy 29°12′01″N 83°01′49″W / 29.2003°N 83.0302°W | 6,784.31 acres (2,746 ha) | Scrub on ancient sand dunes, among the rarest natural communities in Florida; its Florida scrub jays are a declining population at the northern limit of the species' range | |
| Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park | December 19, 1974 | Charlotte, Lee 26°47′09″N 82°08′12″W / 26.7858°N 82.1368°W | 45,507.16 acres (18,416 ha) | Islands and more than 70 miles (110 km) of shoreline around Charlotte Harbor, within or next to four aquatic preserves (Gasparilla Sound-Charlotte Harbor, Cape Haze, Pine Island Sound, and Matlacha Pass); some of its trails are on the south section of the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail | |
| Cockroach Bay Preserve State Park | January 24, 1997 | Hillsborough 27°42′08″N 82°29′34″W / 27.7023°N 82.4928°W | 617.89 acres (250.1 ha) | Protects the Little Cockroach Key shell mound and the Cockroach Key Shell Midden, which with nearby Big Cockroach Mound may mark the northernmost extent of the Glades culture, generally found no farther north than Collier County | |
| Collier–Seminole State Park | March 8, 1944 | Collier 25°58′32″N 81°36′01″W / 25.9756°N 81.6004°W | 7,270.8 acres (2,942 ha) | Home to a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark: the Bay City Walking Dredge used to build the Tamiami Trail | |
| Colt Creek State Park | May 31, 2006 | Polk 28°17′07″N 82°02′21″W / 28.2853°N 82.0391°W | 5,067.01 acres (2,051 ha) | Lies in the Green Swamp south of the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve; cypress domes set in pine flatwoods, with improved pastures still grazed by cattle | |
| Constitution Convention Museum State Park | May 12, 1922 | Gulf 29°47′36″N 85°17′55″W / 29.7932°N 85.2985°W | 13.22 acres (5.35 ha) | Museum on the site of the former town of St. Joseph commemorating Florida's first Constitutional Convention (1838–1839), which drafted the constitution admitting Florida to statehood | |
| Crystal River Archaeological State Park | August 6, 1962 | Citrus 28°54′28″N 82°38′12″W / 28.9079°N 82.6367°W | 61.48 acres (24.88 ha) | Preserves the Crystal River Site (8CI1), a pre-Columbian ceremonial and burial mound complex designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990 and believed to be one of the longest continuously occupied sites in Florida, with about 2,000 years of settlement | |
| Crystal River Preserve State Park | August 20, 1974 | Citrus 28°51′30″N 82°38′56″W / 28.8584°N 82.6489°W | 27,718.15 acres (11,217 ha) | Protects the lower Crystal River where it mixes with Gulf water, one of Florida's most productive estuaries, with salt marsh, hydric hammock, tidal wetlands, mangroves, and pine flatwoods; Florida manatees live year-round in neighboring Kings Bay | |
| Curry Hammock State Park | September 10, 1991 | Monroe 24°44′39″N 80°59′20″W / 24.7442°N 80.9890°W | 1,055.78 acres (427 ha) | The largest undeveloped parcel in its area of the Keys, with one of the largest rockland hammocks in the middle Florida Keys; hosts the Florida Keys Hawkwatch, which studies the migration of birds of prey over the park | |
| Dade Battlefield Historic State Park | September 29, 1921 | Sumter 28°39′08″N 82°07′37″W / 28.6522°N 82.1270°W | 120.85 acres (48.9 ha) | Preserves the site of Dade's Battle of 1835, which began the Second Seminole War, the longest and costliest American Indian war in U.S. history; a reenactment of the battle is held each January | |
| Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park | July 26, 1982 | Monroe 25°14′54″N 80°19′04″W / 25.2484°N 80.3177°W | 2,601.45 acres (1,053 ha) | Protects the largest remaining contiguous rockland hammock in the continental United States, home to 84 protected plant and animal species, including the Schaus' swallowtail butterfly and the Key Largo woodrat | |
| De Leon Springs State Park | June 1, 1982 | Volusia 29°08′28″N 81°22′20″W / 29.1410°N 81.3722°W | 624.79 acres (252.8 ha) | Spring discharging an average of 16.8 million US gallons (64,000,000 litres) a day into a run that flows west to Lake Woodruff and the Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge; a reconstruction of the 1830s sugar mill, built about 1900 on the original footprint, now houses the Sugar Mill Restaurant | |
| Deer Lake State Park | February 6, 1996 | Walton 30°18′38″N 86°03′54″W / 30.3106°N 86.0651°W | 2,009.44 acres (813 ha) | Protects Deer Lake, one of three coastal dune lakes in the park, a lake type the Florida Natural Areas Inventory considers globally rare and imperiled; part of the Emerald Coast | |
| Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park | September 8, 1970 | Collier 26°16′53″N 81°49′42″W / 26.2815°N 81.8284°W | 199.73 acres (80.8 ha) | One of the few undeveloped barrier islands in the area, with a subtidal hard-bottom reef just offshore; the beach is an index nesting site used to track Florida's sea turtle nesting population | |
| Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park | December 5, 1973 | Alachua 29°42′25″N 82°23′43″W / 29.7070°N 82.3952°W | 67.24 acres (27.21 ha) | A solution-collapse sinkhole designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974; its exposed limestone layers record north Florida's geology and fossil history, and its cool, waterfall-fed microclimate supports plants more typical of Appalachian ravines | |
| Don Pedro Island State Park | February 15, 1985 | Charlotte 26°51′08″N 82°18′09″W / 26.8522°N 82.3025°W | 253.76 acres (102.7 ha) | Barrier-island beach between Knight Island and Little Gasparilla Island, reachable only by private boat or ferry; loggerhead and green sea turtles nest on the beach, and gopher tortoises live on both the island and the mainland tract | |
| Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park | April 17, 1963 | Franklin 29°43′16″N 84°44′52″W / 29.7212°N 84.7478°W | 2,073.24 acres (839 ha) | Occupies the easternmost 9 miles (14 km) of St. George Island, with high dunes and white sand Gulf beaches; it has the second-highest sea turtle nesting of the state parks on the northwest Florida Gulf Coast | |
| Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park | August 23, 1973 | Broward 26°04′31″N 80°06′42″W / 26.0753°N 80.1116°W | 344.65 acres (139.5 ha) | Renamed in 2016 for civil rights leaders Dr. Von D. Mizell, who in 1946 petitioned for a public beach for Black residents, and Eula Johnson, who led the July 4, 1961, wade-in on Fort Lauderdale's whites-only beaches; in 1962 a court rejected the city's bid to stop the wade-ins | |
| Dudley Farm Historic State Park | June 9, 1983 | Alachua 29°39′36″N 82°32′34″W / 29.6599°N 82.5427°W | 333.46 acres (134.9 ha) | Farm worked by three generations of the Dudley family from the late 1850s to the 1940s, with buildings dating from the 1880s to the 1940s; designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021 | |
| Dunns Creek State Park | October 10, 2001 | Putnam 29°32′46″N 81°35′55″W / 29.5462°N 81.5985°W | 6,352.5 acres (2,571 ha) | Pine flatwoods and sandhill above the wide floodplain swamp of Dunns Creek, whose watershed extends to Crescent Lake; named for John Dunn, an attorney and coffee planter who received a land grant in 1765 | |
| Econfina River State Park | January 6, 1988 | Taylor 30°04′10″N 83°55′15″W / 30.0694°N 83.9209°W | 4,585.32 acres (1,856 ha) | Coastal park on Florida's Big Bend where the land slopes from pine flatwoods through hammock to a wide salt marsh along the Gulf of Mexico; part of a network of public lands stretching nearly 200 miles (320 km) along the Gulf | |
| Eden Gardens State Park | December 24, 1968 | Walton 30°22′17″N 86°07′21″W / 30.3714°N 86.1226°W | 167.72 acres (67.9 ha) | Centered on the Wesley House, a 19th-century vernacular home remodeled in 1963–1964 as a Neo-Classical Revival "Southern plantation" house and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021; its ornamental gardens were designed by former state park director Emmitt Hill, on Tucker Bayou off Choctawhatchee Bay | |
| Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park | September 17, 1986 | Wakulla 30°14′30″N 84°18′10″W / 30.2418°N 84.3028°W | 6,779.96 acres (2,744 ha) | Centered on Wakulla Springs, one of the world's largest and deepest freshwater springs, flowing at about 250 million US gallons (950,000,000 litres) a day and a National Natural Landmark since 1966; the spring run was a filming location for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and several 1930s–40s Tarzan films | |
| Egmont Key State Park | December 4, 1989 | Hillsborough 27°35′27″N 82°45′41″W / 27.5908°N 82.7614°W | 294.31 acres (119.1 ha) | Island at the mouth of Tampa Bay accessible only by boat, containing the Egmont Key Light, rebuilt in 1858, and the ruins of Fort Dade, a Spanish–American War-era coastal fortification whose community once had more than 300 residents | |
| Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park | December 30, 1988 | Citrus 28°48′03″N 82°35′03″W / 28.8007°N 82.5841°W | 200.85 acres (81.3 ha) | Wildlife park built around a first-magnitude spring, rehabilitating and exhibiting native Florida wildlife; a floating underwater observatory, first built in 1964, sits in the main spring pool, which wild manatees enter in winter | |
| Estero Bay Preserve State Park | April 27, 1987 | Lee 26°27′53″N 81°53′30″W / 26.4647°N 81.8917°W | 11,382.81 acres (4,606 ha) | Lands along Estero Bay bought to protect the adjacent Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve, Florida's first aquatic preserve (designated 1966), from surrounding development; home to nesting bald eagles and a large colony of gopher tortoises | |
| Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park | June 14, 1974 | Collier 26°01′17″N 81°25′16″W / 26.0214°N 81.4210°W | 80,179.8 acres (32,448 ha) | Contains the Fakahatchee Strand, the largest strand swamp in the world and one of two places where bald cypress and royal palms grow together, with the greatest diversity of orchids in North America (including the ghost orchid) and the most bromeliad species in the United States; its Big Cypress Bend tract, a remnant of old-growth bald cypress, was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1966 | |
| Falling Waters State Park | March 26, 1962 | Washington 30°43′42″N 85°31′46″W / 30.7284°N 85.5295°W | 166.24 acres (67.3 ha) | Florida's highest waterfall drops into a cylindrical sinkhole about 100 feet (30 m) deep and 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, then disappears into the park's network of caves | |
| Fanning Springs State Park | December 2, 1993 | Levy 29°35′12″N 82°56′00″W / 29.5866°N 82.9332°W | 196.63 acres (79.6 ha) | Contains Big Fanning, a historic first-magnitude spring whose average flow fell from 107.5 to 73.5 cubic feet per second after 1998, and the second-magnitude Little Fanning; both flow directly into the Suwannee River | |
| Faver-Dykes State Park | December 28, 1950 | St. Johns 29°41′13″N 81°15′54″W / 29.6870°N 81.2650°W | 6,027.63 acres (2,439 ha) | Flatwoods, hammock, and marsh north of Pellicer Creek, a state canoe trail, within the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve; protects Timucuan middens and the site of General Joseph Hernández's early-1800s Buena Suerte Plantation | |
| Fernandina Plaza Historic State Park | December 30, 1941 | Nassau 30°41′19″N 81°27′24″W / 30.6887°N 81.4566°W | 0.8 acres (0.32 ha) | At 0.80 acres (3,200 m2), the smallest unit in the Florida state park system; preserves the plaza of Old Town Fernandina, the last planned Spanish town in North America, and the former parade ground of Fort San Carlos, built in 1816 | |
| Florida Caverns State Park | October 11, 1935 | Jackson 30°48′46″N 85°14′02″W / 30.8129°N 85.2340°W | 1,449.6 acres (587 ha) | Runs the only tours of air-filled limestone caves in Florida; one of the state's nine original New Deal parks developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration; the cave system was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1977 | |
| Forest Capital Museum State Park | January 11, 1967 | Taylor 30°04′49″N 83°34′09″W / 30.0804°N 83.5691°W | 10.18 acres (4.12 ha) | Museum on north Florida's forestry and turpentine industry, beside a cracker homestead centered on the 1864 Whiddon log cabin and furnished with everyday items of settler life | |
| Fort Clinch State Park | September 20, 1935 | Nassau 30°41′38″N 81°28′23″W / 30.6940°N 81.4730°W | 2,219.2 acres (898 ha) | Contains Fort Clinch, a brick "Third System" coastal fortification begun in 1847 and never finished, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972; federal troops reoccupied it in 1862, and new elements were added during the Spanish-American War | |
| Fort Cooper State Park | December 29, 1970 | Citrus 28°48′30″N 82°18′15″W / 28.8082°N 82.3041°W | 708.05 acres (286.5 ha) | Preserves the site of Fort Cooper on Lake Holathlikaha, built in April 1836 by the 1st Georgia Battalion of Volunteers during the Second Seminole War, where 380 sick and wounded soldiers held out through a 16-day siege; listed on the NRHP in 1972 | |
| Fort George Island Cultural State Park | April 19, 1950 | Duval 30°25′30″N 81°25′50″W / 30.4249°N 81.4306°W | 820.64 acres (332.1 ha) | Fort George Island, with more than 5,000 years of human occupation, including the largest and least disturbed shell ring in the southeastern United States and remains of the Spanish mission San Juan del Puerto; the 1928 Ribault Club, a former winter resort, is the park's visitor center | |
| Fort Mose Historic State Park | October 30, 1989 | St. Johns 29°55′46″N 81°19′21″W / 29.9295°N 81.3226°W | 41.35 acres (16.73 ha) | Site of Fort Mose (Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose), established in 1738 as the first legally sanctioned free Black community in what became the United States; a National Historic Landmark | |
| Fort Pierce Inlet State Park | August 10, 1973 | St. Lucie 27°29′14″N 80°18′31″W / 27.4872°N 80.3085°W | 956.66 acres (387.1 ha) | Beach dunes, maritime hammock, and mangrove swamp on the north side of the Fort Pierce Inlet, along Tucker Cove on the Indian River Lagoon; the park was a birthplace and training ground of the Navy frogmen, forerunners of the Navy SEALs | |
| Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park | October 7, 1976 | Monroe 24°32′47″N 81°48′38″W / 24.5465°N 81.8106°W | 55.74 acres (22.56 ha) | Contains Fort Zachary Taylor in Key West, a coastal fort begun in 1845 and one of only four Southern forts that stayed in Union hands throughout the American Civil War; designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973 | |
| Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park | July 1, 1966 | Okaloosa 30°29′46″N 86°25′35″W / 30.4961°N 86.4264°W | 346.65 acres (140.3 ha) | Former Air Force land on Rocky Bayou used for bombing practice during World War II; a concrete practice bomb displayed along the nature trail is believed to have been dropped by crews training for Lt. Col. James Doolittle's April 1942 raid on Japan | |
| Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach | October 4, 1954 | Flagler 29°26′16″N 81°06′39″W / 29.4377°N 81.1108°W | 133.71 acres (54.1 ha) | Beach and Intracoastal Waterway park named for the Florida cracker folksinger and storyteller Gamble Rogers, who drowned attempting to rescue a swimmer off the adjacent shoreline | |
| Gasparilla Island State Park | May 14, 1983 | Lee 26°43′51″N 82°15′40″W / 26.7309°N 82.2612°W | 130.1 acres (52.6 ha) | Includes the 1890 Port Boca Grande Lighthouse and keeper's residence on the southern tip of Gasparilla Island, listed on the NRHP; loggerhead and green sea turtles, snowy plovers, and least terns nest on its beach | |
| George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier State Park | September 14, 2007 | Duval, Nassau 30°31′06″N 81°27′27″W / 30.5183°N 81.4575°W | 110.5 acres (44.7 ha) | Fishing pier on the historic George Crady Bridge over Nassau Sound, one of the most productive fishing areas in northeast Florida; planned and managed with Amelia Island State Park: park summary, 35 | |
| Grayton Beach State Park | September 21, 1964 | Walton 30°20′10″N 86°09′28″W / 30.3361°N 86.1578°W | 2,186.6 acres (885 ha) | Named the top beach in the United States by "Dr. Beach" (Stephen Leatherman) in 1994 and again in 2020; borders three coastal dune lakes, with most of Western Lake inside the park | |
| Haw Creek Preserve State Park | December 2, 1976 | Flagler, Putnam, Volusia 29°23′10″N 81°25′23″W / 29.3861°N 81.4230°W | 3,061.67 acres (1,239 ha) | About 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of floodplain swamp and basin marsh along the lower reaches of Haw Creek, protecting water quality in the Crescent Lake–Haw Creek watershed of the St. Johns River basin; donated by The Nature Conservancy in 1976 | |
| Henderson Beach State Park | February 2, 1983 | Okaloosa 30°23′05″N 86°26′33″W / 30.3847°N 86.4425°W | 251.46 acres (101.8 ha) | More than a mile of uninterrupted white sand beach and active dunes on the Emerald Coast in Destin, with sand pine scrub that is becoming scarce outside protected areas | |
| Highlands Hammock State Park | July 31, 1935 | Highlands, Hardee 27°27′01″N 81°32′06″W / 27.4504°N 81.5350°W | 9,237.74 acres (3,738 ha) | Opened as a private park in 1931 and placed in state custody in 1935; most of its rustic buildings were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, and it was NRHP-listed in 2018 | |
| Hillsborough River State Park | June 10, 1936 | Hillsborough 28°07′15″N 82°15′31″W / 28.1208°N 82.2587°W | 3,319.21 acres (1,343 ha) | Contains Fort Foster State Historic Site, a replica of the fort built during the Second Seminole War to defend the bridge carrying the Fort King Military Road across the Hillsborough River | |
| Honeymoon Island State Park | December 23, 1974 | Pinellas 28°04′30″N 82°49′43″W / 28.0751°N 82.8287°W | 2,824.52 acres (1,143 ha) | Formed when the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane cut through the original barrier island, then called Hog Island, opening the channel between what became Honeymoon and Caladesi islands; the park has averaged about 1.27 million visitors a year | |
| Hontoon Island State Park | May 12, 1967 | Volusia, Lake 28°57′55″N 81°21′47″W / 28.9653°N 81.3630°W | 1,653.83 acres (669 ha) | Island in the St. Johns River reached by park ferry; replicas of a large owl totem and smaller otter and pelican carvings, made more than 600 years ago and recovered from a submerged archaeological site, stand near the picnic area: 49, 52 | |
| Hugh Taylor Birch State Park | December 31, 1941 | Broward 26°08′43″N 80°06′18″W / 26.1454°N 80.1050°W | 162.54 acres (65.8 ha) | Barrier-island park between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale, with the last remaining tropical maritime hammock in South Florida; Chicago attorney Hugh Taylor Birch left his estate for a public park, which opened in 1949 | |
| Ichetucknee Springs State Park | January 6, 1970 | Columbia, Suwannee 29°58′32″N 82°45′46″W / 29.9756°N 82.7629°W | 2,531.97 acres (1,025 ha) | Contains eight major springs, including the headspring, and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of the spring-fed Ichetucknee River, the focus of the park's designation as a National Natural Landmark in 1971 and long popular for tubing | |
| Ichetucknee Trace | September 7, 2000 | Columbia 30°02′42″N 82°43′24″W / 30.0449°N 82.7232°W | 822.29 acres (332.8 ha) | Tract along the Ichetucknee Trace, a former stream valley of the Ichetucknee River above an underground conduit that feeds Ichetucknee Springs State Park; acquired in 2000 and 2001 with Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever funds to keep mining from contaminating the springs: 9 | |
| Indian Key Historic State Park | December 28, 1970 | Monroe 24°53′01″N 80°40′39″W / 24.8835°N 80.6775°W | 111.33 acres (45.1 ha) | Small, uninhabited island in the middle Florida Keys; from 1820 to 1840 a trading post and the base of Jacob Housman's ship-salvaging business, where botanist Henry Perrine grew tropical plants, until a Seminole raid in August 1840 destroyed the settlement | |
| Indian River Lagoon Preserve State Park | September 29, 2000 | Brevard 27°56′08″N 80°30′08″W / 27.9356°N 80.5022°W | 564.01 acres (228.2 ha) | Barrier-island land on the Indian River Lagoon, one of the country's most productive and diverse estuaries, bought from 2000 through the Indian River Lagoon Blueways land program; once the site of one of the last barrier-island citrus groves | |
| John D. MacArthur Beach State Park | July 7, 1981 | Palm Beach 26°49′34″N 80°02′34″W / 26.8261°N 80.0428°W | 436.39 acres (176.6 ha) | Barrier-island park with a boardwalk across the estuary of Lake Worth Cove and Munyon Island, site of the Hygeia Hotel, an early-1900s resort; the state received the land in 1981 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | |
| John Gorrie Museum State Park | April 15, 1955 | Franklin 29°43′30″N 84°59′08″W / 29.7250°N 84.9856°W | 0.96 acres (0.39 ha) | Commemorates John Gorrie, an Apalachicola physician and pioneer of air conditioning who received the first U.S. patent for mechanical refrigeration in 1851 | |
| John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park | December 3, 1959 | Monroe 25°10′49″N 80°19′35″W / 25.1803°N 80.3265°W | 63,881.38 acres (25,852 ha) | Established in 1959 as the first undersea park in the United States, covering about 72 square nautical miles (250 km2) of the Florida Reef off Key Largo, the only living coral reef in the continental United States | |
| Jonathan Dickinson State Park | June 9, 1947 | Martin 27°00′31″N 80°08′20″W / 27.0086°N 80.1390°W | 10,441.68 acres (4,226 ha) | Crossed by the Loxahatchee River, designated a National Wild and Scenic River in 1985; also contains the remains of Camp Murphy, a World War II U.S. Army radar training base | |
| Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park | June 18, 1926 | Manatee 27°31′40″N 82°31′36″W / 27.5278°N 82.5268°W | 33.04 acres (13.37 ha) | Preserves the Gamble Mansion, a Greek Revival plantation house of tabby built between 1845 and 1850, where Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin hid while planning his escape at the end of the American Civil War; NRHP-listed in 1970 | |
| Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park | March 28, 1997 | Okeechobee, Osceola 27°34′53″N 81°04′04″W / 27.5815°N 81.0679°W | 58,119.55 acres (23,520 ha) | Protects the largest remaining tract of Florida dry prairie, a natural community found nowhere else; in 2016 it became Florida's first International Dark Sky Park, with one of the darkest night skies in the eastern United States | |
| Koreshan State Historic Site | November 2, 1961 | Lee 26°26′07″N 81°49′00″W / 26.4353°N 81.8167°W | 196.16 acres (79.4 ha) | Contains the Koreshan Unity Settlement Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, preserving the buildings and landscaped grounds of a late-19th-century utopian community whose last members donated the land to the state in 1961 | |
| Lafayette Blue Springs State Park | June 1, 2005 | Lafayette 30°08′55″N 83°14′09″W / 30.1487°N 83.2357°W | 713.91 acres (288.9 ha) | Contains Lafayette Blue Spring, a first-magnitude spring flowing into the Suwannee River, whose run passes under a 20-foot (6.1 m)-wide natural limestone bridge just below the headspring | |
| Lake Griffin State Park | October 31, 1946 | Lake 28°51′42″N 81°53′38″W / 28.8618°N 81.8938°W | 620.66 acres (251.2 ha) | Contains the second-largest live oak in Florida, estimated at 300 to 500 years old and a statewide landmark | |
| Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park | May 26, 1966 | Leon 30°30′04″N 84°18′53″W / 30.5011°N 84.3146°W | 199.81 acres (80.9 ha) | Preserves six earthen mounds of the Lake Jackson site (8LE1), the largest Mississippian mound complex within 200 kilometres (120 mi) and part of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, occupied c. 1050–1500 and NRHP-listed in 1971 | |
| Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park | November 15, 1995 | Highlands 27°17′44″N 81°25′09″W / 27.2956°N 81.4193°W | 845.67 acres (342.2 ha) | Protects scrub habitat for some of Florida's rarest species, including the Florida scrub jay, Florida scrub lizard, Florida mouse, gopher tortoise, and eastern indigo snake | |
| Lake Kissimmee State Park | January 7, 1970 | Polk 27°56′27″N 81°22′07″W / 27.9407°N 81.3685°W | 5,893.23 acres (2,385 ha) | Contains the "1876 Cow Camp", a living-history site on a late-19th-century ranch where staff portray Florida cow hunters with herds of cracker cattle and cracker horses on weekends and holidays from October through May | |
| Lake Louisa State Park | August 29, 1973 | Lake 28°26′49″N 81°44′28″W / 28.4470°N 81.7411°W | 4,608.07 acres (1,865 ha) | Contains six lakes and parts of four others on the northeastern edge of the Green Swamp, where four major rivers originate; the park is an important part of central Florida's aquifer recharge system | |
| Lake Manatee State Park | June 16, 1970 | Manatee 27°28′42″N 82°20′14″W / 27.4784°N 82.3372°W | 548.85 acres (222.1 ha) | Conservation land along the shore of Lake Manatee, a reservoir formed by a 1967 dam on the Manatee River that supplies drinking water to Manatee and Sarasota counties | |
| Lake Talquin State Park | December 15, 1970 | Leon 30°25′28″N 84°33′58″W / 30.4244°N 84.5660°W | 490.45 acres (198.5 ha) | Sits on Lake Talquin, a reservoir formed in 1927 when the Ochlockonee River was dammed at Jackson Bluff for hydroelectric power; restoration of the park's longleaf pine and wiregrass benefits the gopher tortoise | |
| Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park | June 30, 1992 | Jefferson 30°31′04″N 83°59′25″W / 30.5179°N 83.9903°W | 190.11 acres (76.9 ha) | Contains the Letchworth Mound (8JE337), Florida's tallest Native American ceremonial mound, about 51 feet (16 m) tall and 300 feet (91 m) wide at its base | |
| Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park | March 2, 1971 | Monroe 24°54′12″N 80°41′04″W / 24.9034°N 80.6844°W | 10,724.24 acres (4,340 ha) | Island reached only by boat, preserving undisturbed rockland hammock with nine national champion trees and a large population of its namesake lignum vitae; guided tours start at the 1919 Matheson House; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1968 | |
| Little Manatee River State Park | August 2, 1974 | Hillsborough 27°40′24″N 82°22′15″W / 27.6732°N 82.3707°W | 2,499.38 acres (1,011 ha) | The Little Manatee River, one of the most pristine blackwater streams in Hillsborough County, runs through the park for about 5 miles (8.0 km) of a designated state paddling trail | |
| Little Talbot Island State Park | June 5, 1951 | Duval 30°27′19″N 81°24′55″W / 30.4553°N 81.4153°W | 1,531.38 acres (620 ha) | One of the last undeveloped barrier islands on Florida's Atlantic coast, with more than 5 miles (8.0 km) of beach, maritime hammock, and coastal strand; three species of sea turtles nest on its beaches, and nearly 50 migratory shorebird species use the island: 2, 22, 54 | |
| Long Key State Park | September 21, 1961 | Monroe 24°49′01″N 80°48′30″W / 24.8170°N 80.8083°W | 1,001.76 acres (405 ha) | Site of Henry Flagler's Long Key Fishing Camp, a luxury resort that drew wealthy visitors from around the world until the 1935 Labor Day hurricane destroyed it | |
| Lovers Key State Park | August 18, 1983 | Lee 26°23′28″N 81°52′09″W / 26.3912°N 81.8691°W | 1,442.44 acres (584 ha) | Spread over four islands (Lovers Key, Inner Key, Long Key, and Black Island), three of them linked by footbridges and a park tram; bald eagles feed in its lagoons, West Indian manatees live in the nearshore waters, and sea turtles nest on the beach | |
| Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park | August 19, 1976 | Lake, Seminole 28°54′14″N 81°23′16″W / 28.9040°N 81.3877°W | 17,376.26 acres (7,032 ha) | More than three-quarters wetland, mainly floodplain swamp and hydric hammock shaped by floods on the Wekiva and St. Johns rivers; part of the Wekiva River basin parks, which protect a nationally designated Wild and Scenic River and a wildlife corridor to the Ocala National Forest used by the Florida black bear: 2, 40 | |
| Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site | April 16, 1948 | Manatee 27°33′57″N 82°35′32″W / 27.5659°N 82.5922°W | 9.19 acres (3.72 ha) | Preserves the Madira Bickel Mound, a Native American mound occupied from the Weeden Island period through the Safety Harbor culture; the first archaeological site designated by the state of Florida | |
| Madison Blue Spring State Park | September 26, 2002 | Madison 30°28′43″N 83°14′43″W / 30.4786°N 83.2452°W | 49.73 acres (20.13 ha) | Contains Madison Blue Spring, a first-magnitude spring that rises in a karst bowl and flows 150 feet (46 m) to the Withlacoochee River | |
| Manatee Springs State Park | January 6, 1949 | Levy 29°29′42″N 82°58′13″W / 29.4949°N 82.9703°W | 2,452.83 acres (993 ha) | Contains Manatee Spring, one of the largest first-magnitude springs in the lower Suwannee River basin and a refuge for West Indian manatees, at the end of 6.3 miles (10.1 km) of mapped underwater caves; William Bartram described his visit in 1774; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971 | |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park | July 1, 1970 | Alachua 29°28′51″N 82°09′31″W / 29.4809°N 82.1586°W | 124.31 acres (50.3 ha) | Preserves the Cross Creek farmhouse where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked from 1928 to 1953 and wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling; designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006 | |
| Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park | January 11, 1935 | Clay 29°50′13″N 81°57′00″W / 29.8369°N 81.9501°W | 2,366.87 acres (958 ha) | One of Florida's original state parks, developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and dedicated in 1939; protects the largest steephead ravine system in northeast Florida, where spring vents feed Gold Head Branch | |
| Mound Key Archaeological State Park | November 2, 1961 | Lee 26°25′21″N 81°51′51″W / 26.4224°N 81.8641°W | 127.85 acres (51.7 ha) | Widely believed to have been the capital of the Calusa, where Spanish governor Pedro Menéndez de Avilés met the Calusa king Carlos in 1566; the island was built up from shell middens, with mounds rising more than 30 feet (9.1 m) above Estero Bay | |
| Myakka River State Park | June 23, 1936 | Manatee, Sarasota 27°13′35″N 82°16′00″W / 27.2263°N 82.2666°W | 37,197.68 acres (15,053 ha) | One of Florida's oldest and largest state parks, covering 58 square miles (150 km2) along the Myakka River, Florida's first state-designated wild and scenic river; a canopy walkway gives views across the prairie | |
| Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park | March 8, 1950 | Leon 30°18′02″N 84°08′06″W / 30.3006°N 84.1351°W | 2,121.37 acres (858 ha) | Site of the March 6, 1865, Battle of Natural Bridge, the second-largest Civil War battle in Florida, where Confederate soldiers, old men, and young boys turned back a Union advance and kept Tallahassee the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi never captured | |
| Ney Landrum State Park | December 21, 2006 | Jefferson, Leon 30°23′30″N 84°05′04″W / 30.3917°N 84.0845°W | 2,590.01 acres (1,048 ha) | Formerly St. Marks River Preserve State Park, renamed by state law in 2025 for Ney Landrum, director of Florida's state parks from 1970 to 1989; protects the headwaters of the St. Marks River, with floodplain forest, flatwoods, and sandhills: 12 | |
| North Peninsula State Park | May 16, 1984 | Volusia 29°24′31″N 81°05′48″W / 29.4086°N 81.0967°W | 556.07 acres (225.0 ha) | Barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Halifax River, with beach dune, coastal strand, maritime hammock, and salt marsh; habitat for the Florida scrub jay and gopher tortoise, and part of the range of the pallid beach mouse, now presumed extinct | |
| Ochlockonee River State Park | May 14, 1970 | Wakulla 30°00′12″N 84°29′10″W / 30.0034°N 84.4862°W | 546.45 acres (221.1 ha) | Longleaf pine flatwoods at the confluence of the Ochlockonee and Dead rivers, kept by decades of prescribed burning as an excellent example of flatwoods management; habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, the gopher tortoise, and the flatwoods salamander: park summary, 37 | |
| Okeechobee Battlefield Historic State Park | June 30, 2006 | Okeechobee 27°12′47″N 80°47′06″W / 27.2130°N 80.7849°W | 145.32 acres (58.8 ha) | Site of the Battle of Lake Okeechobee on December 25, 1837, in which more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers under Colonel Zachary Taylor fought several hundred Seminole and Miccosukee warriors in a turning point of the Second Seminole War; a National Historic Landmark since 1961 and NRHP-listed in 1966 | |
| O'Leno State Park | September 4, 1934 | Alachua, Columbia 29°54′49″N 82°34′40″W / 29.9136°N 82.5778°W | 2,372.41 acres (960 ha) | One of Florida's nine original state parks, developed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration on the site of the mill town of Leno; the Santa Fe River disappears into the River Sink here and flows underground for more than 3 miles (4.8 km) before re-emerging at neighboring River Rise Preserve State Park | |
| Oleta River State Park | June 9, 1980 | Miami-Dade 25°54′59″N 80°08′19″W / 25.9165°N 80.1387°W | 1,032.78 acres (418 ha) | Considered Florida's largest urban park, with mangrove swamps, ponds, and lagoon on the Oleta River, the only river in Miami-Dade County never dredged or channelized; a mountain-bike trail network winds over its old dredge-spoil hills | |
| Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park | August 6, 1909 | Baker 30°13′07″N 82°22′57″W / 30.2185°N 82.3825°W | 617.05 acres (249.7 ha) | Preserves the site of the February 20, 1864, Battle of Olustee, Florida's largest Civil War battle, a Confederate victory that turned back a Union march toward Tallahassee; a National Historic Landmark | |
| Orman House Historic State Park | March 29, 2001 | Franklin 29°43′52″N 84°59′28″W / 29.7311°N 84.9910°W | 10.27 acres (4.16 ha) | Preserves the house built in 1838 by cotton merchant Thomas Orman overlooking the Apalachicola River; Orman helped make Apalachicola one of the Gulf Coast's most important cotton-exporting ports by the mid-19th century | |
| Oscar Scherer State Park | September 12, 1956 | Sarasota 27°10′51″N 82°27′37″W / 27.1807°N 82.4602°W | 1,396.32 acres (565 ha) | Protects one of the few regionally significant populations of the endangered Florida scrub jay in southwest Florida, in more than 400 acres (160 ha) of scrubby flatwoods, a habitat largely lost to development along that coast | |
| Paynes Creek Historic State Park | September 16, 1974 | Hardee 27°37′11″N 81°48′37″W / 27.6198°N 81.8103°W | 398.57 acres (161.3 ha) | Site of the Kennedy and Darling trading post, attacked by a group of Seminoles in July 1849 in the raid that set off the "Indian Scare of 1849"; Fort Chokonikla, the first of a line of frontier forts, was built nearby that year but never attacked | |
| Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park | September 29, 1970 | Alachua 29°34′38″N 82°18′27″W / 29.5772°N 82.3076°W | 21,561.71 acres (8,726 ha) | A 16,000-acre (6,500 ha) sinkhole valley holding the largest and most biologically diverse freshwater marsh in northern Florida, designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974; American bison and herds of Cracker cattle and Cracker horses roam the park | |
| Perdido Key State Park | June 2, 1978 | Escambia 30°17′31″N 87°28′08″W / 30.2920°N 87.4688°W | 418.9 acres (169.5 ha) | One of the only undeveloped beaches on Perdido Key, bordered on the north by the Old River, which marks the Alabama–Florida state line; vital habitat for the endangered Perdido Key beach mouse, found nowhere else: 2, 42, 132 | |
| Ponce de Leon Springs State Park | September 4, 1970 | Holmes, Walton 30°42′32″N 85°55′39″W / 30.7088°N 85.9274°W | 380.84 acres (154.1 ha) | Contains Ponce de Leon Spring, a second-magnitude spring whose three boils discharge about 14 million US gallons (53,000,000 litres) a day of 68 °F (20 °C) water through a 350-foot (110 m) run into Sandy Creek | |
| Price's Scrub State Park | November 19, 2002 | Marion 29°28′02″N 82°17′03″W / 29.4672°N 82.2841°W | 1,132.94 acres (458 ha) | At least 14 natural communities, including scrub, upland mixed woodland, scrubby flatwoods, and sinkhole lakes; part of proposed links between the Cross Florida Greenway, Paynes Prairie, and other conservation lands | |
| Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park | August 3, 1994 | Duval 30°28′18″N 81°30′45″W / 30.4718°N 81.5124°W | 4,316.75 acres (1,747 ha) | A buffer preserve of more than 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) protecting the tidal creeks and salt marshes of the greater Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve; part of the 7 Creeks Recreation Area with neighboring parks and preserves | |
| Rainbow Springs State Park | October 25, 1990 | Marion 29°04′55″N 82°25′36″W / 29.0819°N 82.4268°W | 1,584.43 acres (641 ha) | Contains Rainbow Springs, Florida's fourth-largest first-magnitude spring, and the first 3 miles (4.8 km) of the Rainbow River; artificial waterfalls and garden stonework survive from its years as a roadside attraction; the spring was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971 | |
| Ravine Gardens State Park | January 1, 1970 | Putnam 29°37′58″N 81°38′29″W / 29.6328°N 81.6414°W | 152.93 acres (61.9 ha) | Botanical garden created in 1933 with New Deal funding in steephead ravines up to 90 feet (27 m) deep near Palatka; its amphitheater and suspension bridges date from that era, and the park was NRHP-listed in 1999 | |
| River Rise Preserve State Park | September 4, 1974 | Alachua, Columbia 29°52′16″N 82°36′07″W / 29.8711°N 82.6020°W | 4,004.43 acres (1,621 ha) | Marks the point where the Santa Fe River re-emerges after flowing underground for more than 3 miles (4.8 km) from the River Sink in O'Leno State Park | |
| Rock Springs Run State Reserve | March 10, 1983 | Orange, Lake, Seminole 28°46′20″N 81°27′13″W / 28.7722°N 81.4535°W | 14,164.77 acres (5,732 ha) | Rock Springs Run, the reserve's most distinctive feature, flows from Rock Springs in neighboring Kelly Park to help form the upper Wekiva River; the reserve is part of a wildlife corridor reaching through Seminole State Forest to the Ocala National Forest, habitat for the Florida black bear: 2, 39 | |
| Ruth B. Kirby Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park | October 6, 2017 | Gilchrist 29°49′39″N 82°40′52″W / 29.8276°N 82.6812°W | 402.42 acres (162.9 ha) | A group of springs on the Santa Fe River, including the second-magnitude Gilchrist Blue and Naked springs; operated privately for decades before the state acquired it for $5.2 million and opened it as Florida's 175th state park on November 1, 2017 | |
| San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park | June 9, 1983 | Alachua 29°44′27″N 82°27′00″W / 29.7408°N 82.4500°W | 7,362.56 acres (2,980 ha) | Protects perhaps the largest upland hardwood forest in Florida among more than 20 natural communities, including sinkholes, springs, and swallets; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974 | |
| San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park | March 9, 1964 | Wakulla 30°09′08″N 84°12′37″W / 30.1521°N 84.2103°W | 15.35 acres (6.21 ha) | Site of a fort at the confluence of the Wakulla and St. Marks rivers, begun by Spain in 1679 and occupied for nearly two centuries by Spanish, British, U.S., and Confederate forces; NRHP-listed in 1966 and a National Historic Landmark | |
| San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park | March 28, 1989 | Monroe 24°51′48″N 80°40′48″W / 24.8634°N 80.6799°W | 643.62 acres (260.5 ha) | Protects the wreck of the San Pedro, a 287-ton ship of the 21-vessel Spanish fleet of 1733 that a hurricane wrecked along the Florida Keys; it lies in 18 feet (5.5 m) of water south of Indian Key | |
| Savannas Preserve State Park | April 25, 1977 | Martin, St. Lucie 27°18′58″N 80°17′12″W / 27.3162°N 80.2868°W | 7,005.52 acres (2,835 ha) | Protects the last relatively undisturbed coastal freshwater basin marsh in southeastern Florida, lying below the old dunes of the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, with a corridor of scrub and other communities along the North Fork of the St. Lucie River | |
| Seabranch Preserve State Park | October 22, 1991 | Martin 27°08′07″N 80°10′06″W / 27.1353°N 80.1683°W | 921.49 acres (372.9 ha) | Protects some of the last remaining coastal scrub in southeast Florida, a globally imperiled community, between the Intracoastal Waterway and US 1; habitat for the threatened Florida scrub jay and gopher tortoise | |
| Sebastian Inlet State Park | February 14, 1969 | Brevard, Indian River 27°51′37″N 80°27′08″W / 27.8602°N 80.4522°W | 972.4 acres (393.5 ha) | On the Sebastian Inlet, first dug by hand between 1886 and 1895 and opened permanently in 1924; the McLarty Treasure Museum, built in 1969 on the site of the survivors' and salvagers' camp of the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet, interprets the wreck | |
| Shoal River Headwaters State Park | October 7, 2025 | Walton 30°46′22″N 86°13′45″W / 30.7729°N 86.2293°W | 2,480.42 acres (1,004 ha) | Opened on January 23, 2026, on 2,480 acres (1,000 ha) west of DeFuniak Springs: rolling sandy hills, flatwoods, and floodplain forests along tributaries of the Shoal River; it buffers military lands and links wildlife corridors in the Northwest Florida Sentinel Landscape | |
| Silver Springs State Park | December 11, 1985 | Marion 29°12′12″N 82°01′18″W / 29.2034°N 82.0217°W | 4,739.92 acres (1,918 ha) | Contains Silver Springs, one of the largest limestone springs in the world and the inland first-magnitude spring with the largest flow in Florida; the glass-bottom boats introduced here in the 1870s pioneered underwater tourism, and the springs served as a filming location for early Tarzan films and the Sea Hunt television series; the springs were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971 | |
| Skyway Fishing Pier State Park | December 20, 1994 | Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas 27°37′17″N 82°39′22″W / 27.6215°N 82.6561°W | 16.46 acres (6.66 ha) | Repurposes the surviving approaches of the original 1954 Sunshine Skyway Bridge (partially destroyed in a 1980 ship collision) as the world's longest fishing pier, spanning Tampa Bay | |
| South Fork State Park | October 26, 1988 | Manatee 27°36′58″N 82°15′05″W / 27.6162°N 82.2515°W | 1,129.44 acres (457 ha) | Tract on the South Fork of the Little Manatee River, part of the river's headwaters, with bottomland forest, upland mixed forest, and rosemary scrub; the imperiled broadleaf nodding cap orchid (Triphora amazonica) grows here | |
| St. Andrews State Park | August 23, 1946 | Bay 30°07′07″N 85°43′13″W / 30.1186°N 85.7203°W | 1,167.08 acres (472 ha) | Gulf beach park on St. Andrew Bay near Panama City Beach; a replica turpentine still and a collection of turpentine-industry artifacts recall the area's naval-stores past | |
| St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park | April 9, 1965 | Martin 27°08′03″N 80°08′25″W / 27.1342°N 80.1402°W | 4,848.8 acres (1,962 ha) | Barrier island reached only by boat, with mangroves, a hammock of live oaks and cabbage palms, and a beach where loggerhead, leatherback, and green turtles nest; more than 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of reef offshore within the park mark the northern end of Florida's Coral Reef | |
| St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park | April 4, 1995 | Brevard, Indian River 27°49′16″N 80°33′42″W / 27.8210°N 80.5618°W | 21,629.35 acres (8,753 ha) | More than 21,600 acres (8,700 ha) along the St. Sebastian River, including a rare strand swamp and mangrove forest; habitat for the red-cockaded woodpecker, crested caracara, and Florida scrub jay, and manatees are common in the river | |
| Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park | July 1, 1979 | Hamilton 30°19′55″N 82°46′44″W / 30.3319°N 82.7788°W | 903.9 acres (365.8 ha) | Memorializes songwriter Stephen Foster, composer of Florida's state song "Old Folks at Home", with a museum and carillon tower on the bank of the Suwannee River; the park inspired and hosts the Florida Folk Festival each Memorial Day weekend | |
| Stump Pass Beach State Park | May 10, 1971 | Charlotte 26°54′19″N 82°20′41″W / 26.9053°N 82.3448°W | 232.13 acres (93.9 ha) | Southern end of Manasota Key, where sand carried south along the Gulf shore keeps building a spit toward Stump Pass; nesting habitat for sea turtles and shorebirds, and home to gopher tortoises | |
| Suwannee River State Park | June 23, 1936 | Hamilton, Madison, Suwannee 30°24′06″N 83°09′39″W / 30.4018°N 83.1608°W | 1,932.77 acres (782 ha) | At the confluence of the Suwannee and Withlacoochee rivers; Confederate earthworks built to protect the railroad bridge over the Suwannee survive, along with the Columbus Cemetery, in use since at least 1862 | |
| T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park | February 4, 1964 | Gulf 29°49′26″N 85°24′22″W / 29.8238°N 85.4061°W | 2,790.91 acres (1,129 ha) | On the St. Joseph Peninsula between St. Joseph Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, where sand is still extending the peninsula's northern tip; one of Florida's most important snowy plover nesting areas, with nesting sea turtles and St. Andrew beach mice in its dunes | |
| Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park | April 13, 1998 | Escambia 30°21′38″N 87°23′29″W / 30.3605°N 87.3913°W | 4,549.15 acres (1,841 ha) | Nearly 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of wet prairie, wet flatwoods, and other communities along Tarkiln Bayou, where pitcher plants, other carnivorous plants, and terrestrial orchids are abundant in places: 65, 136, 138 | |
| Terra Ceia Preserve State Park | August 24, 1998 | Manatee 27°35′52″N 82°33′44″W / 27.5978°N 82.5621°W | 1,948.02 acres (788 ha) | Part of a joint effort to restore about 1,800 acres (730 ha) of coastal habitat in the park and the neighboring Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve on Tampa Bay; also protects old-growth mangroves and the 1909 Haley House | |
| Three Rivers State Park | March 1, 1955 | Jackson 30°44′21″N 84°55′26″W / 30.7393°N 84.9240°W | 658.78 acres (266.6 ha) | About 4 miles (6.4 km) of shoreline on Lake Seminole, the reservoir behind Jim Woodruff Dam where the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet and the Apalachicola begins; rolling hills, ravines, and slope forests overlook the old river floodplain | |
| Tomoka State Park | October 30, 1945 | Volusia 29°19′10″N 81°04′59″W / 29.3194°N 81.0830°W | 1,628 acres (659 ha) | Peninsula between the Tomoka and Halifax rivers, site of the Timucua village of Nocoroco, which the Spaniard Álvaro Mexía visited and mapped in 1605; Fred Dana Marsh's 45-foot (14 m) sculpture Legend of Tomokie stands at Tomoka Point: 2, 83, 122 | |
| Topsail Hill Preserve State Park | May 29, 1992 | Walton 30°22′03″N 86°17′25″W / 30.3676°N 86.2903°W | 1,647.96 acres (667 ha) | Habitat for the federally endangered Choctawhatchee beach mouse, found across most of the park's beach dunes, and for nesting loggerhead sea turtles; contains four coastal dune lakes and 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of Gulf beach | |
| Torreya State Park | April 22, 1935 | Gadsden, Liberty 30°32′56″N 84°55′17″W / 30.5490°N 84.9215°W | 14,869.17 acres (6,017 ha) | Named for the Florida torreya, an endangered conifer found only along a 20-mile (32 km) stretch of the Apalachicola River and in steep decline since the 1950s; the Civilian Conservation Corps moved the antebellum Gregory House to the park's bluffs, which also hold Confederate gun pits; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1976 | |
| Troy Spring State Park | June 12, 1995 | Lafayette 30°00′10″N 82°59′50″W / 30.0029°N 82.9971°W | 83.57 acres (33.82 ha) | Contains Troy Spring, a 70-foot (21 m)-deep first-magnitude spring whose 325-foot (99 m) run flows into the Suwannee River, and the remains of the Confederate steamboat Madison, scuttled by its owner when he left to fight in Virginia | |
| Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park | December 10, 1971 | Levy 29°08′56″N 82°49′53″W / 29.1489°N 82.8315°W | 34,387.61 acres (13,916 ha) | Reached only by boat, it protects about 19,000 acres (7,700 ha) of tidal marsh, rivers, and tree islands along 20 miles (32 km) of coast, with remnants of the Gulf Hammock, once Florida's largest hydric hammock; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1976 | |
| Washington Oaks Gardens State Park | June 10, 1964 | Flagler 29°38′03″N 81°12′21″W / 29.6342°N 81.2057°W | 419.55 acres (169.8 ha) | A coquina-rock shoreline, an outcrop found in only a few places on Florida's Atlantic coast, and ornamental gardens planted by Owen D. Young and his wife, Louise, after they bought the property in 1936; the site was earlier General Joseph Hernández's Bella Vista Plantation | |
| Weeki Wachee Springs State Park | November 15, 2008 | Hernando 28°31′12″N 82°35′03″W / 28.5200°N 82.5843°W | 927.81 acres (375.5 ha) | Home of the Weeki Wachee mermaid show, a live underwater theater performance running continuously since 1947 | |
| Wekiwa Springs State Park | April 30, 1969 | Orange, Lake, Seminole 28°44′52″N 81°28′47″W / 28.7479°N 81.4798°W | 9,175.47 acres (3,713 ha) | Contains Wekiwa Springs, headwaters of the 15.2-mile (24.5 km) Wekiva River, one of only two Florida rivers designated a national Wild and Scenic River; about 20 miles (32 km) north of Orlando: 1–2, 35 | |
| Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park | July 1, 2000 | Pasco 28°18′55″N 82°43′14″W / 28.3152°N 82.7205°W | 3,377.9 acres (1,367 ha) | Protects two artesian salt springs, Cauldron Spring and Salt Spring, more than 320 feet (98 m) deep, and about 4 miles (6.4 km) of undisturbed low-energy Gulf coastline in western Pasco County | |
| Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park | June 11, 1986 | Suwannee 30°07′54″N 83°08′11″W / 30.1316°N 83.1364°W | 761 acres (308.0 ha) | Protects several underwater cave systems, including the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) Peacock Springs system, one of the longest in Florida and a major cave-diving site; named for underwater filmmaker Wes Skiles | |
| Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park | January 17, 1986 | Monroe 24°57′26″N 80°35′42″W / 24.9571°N 80.5951°W | 320.38 acres (129.7 ha) | Former quarry that supplied fill for Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad; its walls, cut into the fossil coral of the Key Largo Limestone, are one of only two places in the continental United States with such a cross section of ancient reef | |
| Wingate Creek State Park | October 26, 1988 | Manatee 27°26′47″N 82°08′35″W / 27.4465°N 82.1431°W | 614.22 acres (248.6 ha) | Land on Wingate Creek in the headwaters of the Myakka River, acquired in 1988 together with South Fork as mitigation by the Beker Phosphate Company | |
| Ybor City Museum State Park | August 17, 1983 | Hillsborough 27°57′43″N 82°26′19″W / 27.9619°N 82.4387°W | 0.96 acres (0.39 ha) | Interprets the founding of Ybor City by Vicente Martinez-Ybor as a center of the international cigar trade; the museum is in the historic Ferlita Bakery, beside six relocated cigar workers' houses | |
| Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park | September 12, 1950 | Duval 30°23′59″N 81°33′22″W / 30.3996°N 81.5562°W | 1.74 acres (0.70 ha) | Earthworks built by Confederate forces in 1862 to keep Union gunboats out of the St. Johns River; in 1864 Union troops, including companies of the 8th and 34th U.S. Colored Troops and the 54th Massachusetts, were stationed there | |
| Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park | June 12, 2000 | Santa Rosa 30°30′04″N 87°03′58″W / 30.5010°N 87.0661°W | 1,041 acres (421 ha) | Protects one of Florida's last remaining tracts of wet prairie, including the state's largest community of pitcher plants, and more than 200 species of vascular plants | |
| Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park | October 3, 1955 | Citrus 28°47′01″N 82°36′27″W / 28.7837°N 82.6076°W | 4.6 acres (1.86 ha) | Ruins of the sugar mill of David Levy Yulee's Margarita Plantation (about 1851–1864), built and run by enslaved laborers; its boiler, evaporating pans, and machinery survive; NRHP-listed in 1970 |
Of the 176 units, 11 are classified as linear corridors: 10 state trails and the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway. They are listed separately so that each trail's length can be given alongside its area.
| Trail name | Image | Acquired | County and location | Area | Length | Notable feature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwater Heritage State Trail | November 4, 1993 | Santa Rosa 30°41′25″N 87°01′33″W / 30.6903°N 87.0258°W | 308.45 acres (124.8 ha) | 8.1 miles (13.0 km) | Paved rail-trail in Milton, the westernmost in Florida, on the old Florida and Alabama Railroad line later rebuilt to carry fuel to NAS Whiting Field, with a parallel equestrian trail; a designated National Recreation Trail | |
| Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail | May 18, 1994 | Monroe 24°52′16″N 81°04′11″W / 24.8711°N 81.0697°W | 328.92 acres (133.1 ha) | 106 miles (170.6 km) | Trail along the Overseas Highway that reuses historic bridges of Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad, completed in 1912, including the Old Bahia Honda Bridge | |
| Gainesville-to-Hawthorne State Trail | December 21, 1988 | Alachua 29°35′43″N 82°10′30″W / 29.5954°N 82.1751°W | 140.20 acres (56.7 ha) | 16 miles (25.7 km) | Rail-trail along the north rim of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park between Gainesville and Hawthorne, following a decommissioned railroad corridor for most of its length; a designated National Recreation Trail | |
| General James A. Van Fleet State Trail | December 12, 1990 | Lake, Polk, Sumter 28°23′43″N 81°53′53″W / 28.3954°N 81.8981°W | 421.70 acres (170.7 ha) | 29.2 miles (47.0 km) | Virtually straight rail-trail across the Green Swamp, through forested floodplains, marshes, meadows, and pine flatwoods; named for General James A. Van Fleet | |
| Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway State Recreation and Conservation Area | July 26, 1993 | Citrus, Levy, Marion, Putnam 29°11′51″N 82°10′52″W / 29.1974°N 82.1810°W | 74,136.59 acres (30,002 ha) | 110 miles (177.0 km) | A 110-mile (180 km) linear park from Yankeetown to the St. Johns River along the corridor of the abandoned Cross Florida Barge Canal, halted in 1971 after an environmental campaign led by Marjorie Harris Carr, for whom the greenway was renamed | |
| Nature Coast State Trail | December 18, 1996 | Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy 29°36′08″N 82°54′48″W / 29.6023°N 82.9132°W | 656.27 acres (265.6 ha) | 32 miles (51.5 km) | Paved rail-trail on the old Atlantic Coast Line Railroad route, linking historic depots at Trenton, Chiefland, and Cross City and crossing the Suwannee River on the historic railroad trestle | |
| Palatka-to-Lake Butler State Trail | February 26, 2001 | Bradford, Clay, Putnam, Union 29°48′20″N 82°00′17″W / 29.8056°N 82.0046°W | 613.94 acres (248.5 ha) | 47 miles (75.6 km) | Rail-trail being developed on the abandoned Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad line between Palatka and Lake Butler, part of a planned long-distance connection with the Palatka-to-St. Augustine State Trail | |
| Palatka-to-St. Augustine State Trail | April 10, 2007 | Putnam, St. Johns 29°44′13″N 81°29′38″W / 29.7370°N 81.4938°W | 69.88 acres (28.3 ha) | 19 miles (30.6 km) | Paved trail 12 feet (3.7 m) wide running 19 miles (31 km) through farmland in St. Johns and Putnam counties; part of the 260-mile (420 km) St. Johns River-to-Sea Loop | |
| Suwannee River Wilderness State Trail | June 17, 2005 | Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Suwannee 30°13′58″N 83°03′19″W / 30.2328°N 83.0553°W | 74.03 acres (30.0 ha) | 170 miles (273.6 km) | Paddling trail on the Suwannee River ending at the Gulf of Mexico, with river camps, state park cabins and campgrounds at roughly 10–15 miles (16–24 km) intervals for overnight trips | |
| Tallahassee–St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail | August 18, 1992 | Leon, Wakulla 30°15′27″N 84°14′14″W / 30.2576°N 84.2371°W | 150.80 acres (61.0 ha) | 16 miles (25.7 km) | Paved rail-trail on the route of Florida's first chartered railroad, opened in 1837 between the territorial capital and the Gulf port of St. Marks to carry cotton and later naval stores and timber; it ran until 1984, longer than any other Florida railroad | |
| Withlacoochee State Trail | December 21, 1989 | Citrus, Hernando, Pasco 28°43′09″N 82°17′48″W / 28.7192°N 82.2967°W | 761.58 acres (308.2 ha) | 47 miles (75.6 km) | Rail-trail running 47 miles (76 km) from Dunnellon to the old Owensboro junction in Pasco County, on two abandoned CSX rail corridors bought in 1989 as one of the first acquisitions of Florida's Rails-to-Trails program |
Each unit carries an official classification based on "the purpose for which the property was acquired or the function it is supposed to serve". This distinction is not always reflected in a unit's name; Alafia River State Park, for example, is classified as a state recreation area.
| Classification | Units | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| State Park | 57 | 32.4% |
| State Recreation Area | 34 | 19.3% |
| State Preserve | 28 | 15.9% |
| Historic Site | 20 | 11.4% |
| State Trail | 10 | 5.7% |
| State Museum | 5 | 2.8% |
| Archaeological Site | 5 | 2.8% |
| Ornamental Garden | 4 | 2.3% |
| State Reserve | 2 | 1.1% |
| Botanical Site | 2 | 1.1% |
| Geological Site | 2 | 1.1% |
| Fishing Pier | 2 | 1.1% |
| Cultural Site | 1 | 0.6% |
| State Greenway | 1 | 0.6% |
| Folk Culture Center | 1 | 0.6% |
| Wildlife Park | 1 | 0.6% |
| Undetermined | 1 | 0.6% |
| Total | 176 | 100% |