List of Florida state parks

Florida State Parks
Logo of the Florida State Parks
Area	More than 819,000 acres (331,000 ha)
Established	1935; 91 years ago (1935)
Visitors	28 million (in 2024–25)
Governing body	Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Recreation and Parks
Website	www.floridastateparks.org

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.

The Florida state park system was most recently enumerated in the Florida Park Service's July 2026 jurisdiction report. 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.

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Parks and other units

Florida state park units, as of July 1, 2026

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 / 29.3322; -81.0956	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 / 27.7735; -82.1201	7,717.8 acres (3,123 ha)	An old phosphate strip mine with pits and spoil piles creates hills and dips uncommon in Florida, making it one of Florida's best known mountain biking trail networks
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park		March 31, 1953	Leon 30°31′43″N 84°15′37″W / 30.5286°N 84.2602°W / 30.5286; -84.2602	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 / 27.9775; -81.4528	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 / 30.5204; -81.4393	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 / 29.8856; -81.2791	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 / 28.1776; -82.8402	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 / 27.0935; -80.2131	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 / 27.5439; -80.3248	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 / 24.6664; -81.2623	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 / 29.9480; -84.4046	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 / 25.7238; -80.2420	9.59 acres (3.88 ha)	1891 waterfront home of yacht designer Ralph Middleton Munroe, founding Commodore of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club; the oldest house in Miami-Dade County still on its original site and 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 / 30.3153; -87.4107	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 / 30.3390; -82.7086	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 / 30.4805; -81.4456	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 / 25.6755; -80.1591	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 / 30.7074; -86.8756	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 / 28.9480; -81.3411	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 / 29.3787; -81.1155	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 / 29.4346; -81.1427	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 / 28.0210; -82.8141	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 / 30.2730; -85.9923	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 / 26.6604; -82.2402	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 / 29.1522; -83.0490	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 / 29.2003; -83.0302	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 / 26.7858; -82.1368	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 / 27.7023; -82.4928	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 / 25.9756; -81.6004	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 / 28.2853; -82.0391	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 / 29.7932; -85.2985	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 / 28.9079; -82.6367	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 / 28.8584; -82.6489	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 / 24.7442; -80.9890	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 / 28.6522; -82.1270	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 / 25.2484; -80.3177	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 / 29.1410; -81.3722	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 / 30.3106; -86.0651	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 / 26.2815; -81.8284	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 / 29.7070; -82.3952	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 / 26.8522; -82.3025	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 / 29.7212; -84.7478	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 / 26.0753; -80.1116	344.65 acres (139.5 ha)	Named in 2016 for civil rights activists Von Mizell and Eula Johnson, who led the 1961 Fort Lauderdale wade-ins that desegregated Broward County beaches the following year
Dudley Farm Historic State Park		June 9, 1983	Alachua 29°39′36″N 82°32′34″W / 29.6599°N 82.5427°W / 29.6599; -82.5427	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 / 29.5462; -81.5985	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 / 30.0694; -83.9209	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 / 30.3714; -86.1226	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 / 30.2418; -84.3028	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 / 27.5908; -82.7614	294.31 acres (119.1 ha)	Island at the mouth of Tampa Bay accessible only by boat, containing the 1858 Egmont Key Light and the ruins of Fort Dade, a Spanish-American War-era coastal fortification that once housed 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 / 28.8007; -82.5841	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 / 26.4647; -81.8917	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 / 26.0214; -81.4210	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 / 30.7284; -85.5295	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 / 29.5866; -82.9332	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 / 29.6870; -81.2650	6,027.63 acres (2,439 ha)	Borders Pellicer Creek, a designated Florida state canoe trail, and preserves pine flatwoods and salt marsh habitat within the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve watershed
Fernandina Plaza Historic State Park		December 30, 1941	Nassau 30°41′19″N 81°27′24″W / 30.6887°N 81.4566°W / 30.6887; -81.4566	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 / 30.8129; -85.2340	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 / 30.0804; -83.5691	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 / 30.6940; -81.4730	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 / 28.8082; -82.3041	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 / 30.4249; -81.4306	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 / 29.9295; -81.3226	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 / 27.4872; -80.3085	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 / 24.5465; -81.8106	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 / 30.4961; -86.4264	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 / 29.4377; -81.1108	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 / 26.7309; -82.2612	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 / 30.5183; -81.4575	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 / 30.3361; -86.1578	2,186.6 acres (885 ha)	Consistently ranked among the top U.S. beaches by Dr. Beach (Stephen Leatherman); 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 / 29.3861; -81.4230	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 / 30.3847; -86.4425	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 / 27.4504; -81.5350	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 / 28.1208; -82.2587	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 / 28.0751; -82.8287	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 / 28.9653; -81.3630	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 / 26.1454; -80.1050	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 / 29.9756; -82.7629	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 / 30.0449; -82.7232	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
Indian Key Historic State Park		December 28, 1970	Monroe 24°53′01″N 80°40′39″W / 24.8835°N 80.6775°W / 24.8835; -80.6775	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 / 27.9356; -80.5022	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 / 26.8261; -80.0428	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 / 29.7250; -84.9856	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 / 25.1803; -80.3265	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 / 27.0086; -80.1390	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 / 27.5278; -82.5268	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 / 27.5815; -81.0679	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 / 26.4353; -81.8167	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 / 30.1487; -83.2357	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 / 28.8618; -81.8938	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 / 30.5011; -84.3146	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 / 27.2956; -81.4193	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 / 27.9407; -81.3685	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 / 28.4470; -81.7411	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 / 27.4784; -82.3372	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 / 30.4244; -84.5660	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 / 30.5179; -83.9903	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 / 24.9034; -80.6844	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 / 27.6732; -82.3707	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 / 30.4553; -81.4153	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 / 24.8170; -80.8083	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 / 26.3912; -81.8691	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 / 28.9040; -81.3877	17,376.26 acres (7,032 ha)	Wildlife corridor between the Ocala National Forest and the Wekiva River basin protecting Florida black bear and Florida sandhill crane habitat; part of a federally designated Wild and Scenic River system
Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site		April 16, 1948	Manatee 27°33′57″N 82°35′32″W / 27.5659°N 82.5922°W / 27.5659; -82.5922	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 / 30.4786; -83.2452	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 / 29.4949; -82.9703	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 / 29.4809; -82.1586	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 / 29.8369; -81.9501	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 / 26.4224; -81.8641	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 / 27.2263; -82.2666	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 a treetop view of the floodplain
Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park		March 8, 1950	Leon 30°18′02″N 84°08′06″W / 30.3006°N 84.1351°W / 30.3006; -84.1351	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 / 30.3917; -84.0845	2,590.01 acres (1,048 ha)	Formerly St. Marks River Preserve State Park; protects sandhill and pine flatwoods habitat; renamed in 2024 for Ney Landrum, director of the Florida Park Service from 1972 to 1989
North Peninsula State Park		May 16, 1984	Volusia 29°24′31″N 81°05′48″W / 29.4086°N 81.0967°W / 29.4086; -81.0967	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 / 30.0034; -84.4862	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 / 27.2130; -80.7849	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 / 29.9136; -82.5778	2,372.41 acres (960 ha)	One of Florida's original eight Civilian Conservation Corps-built state parks (1935–1938), where the Santa Fe River disappears into a River Sink and flows underground for about 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 / 25.9165; -80.1387	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 / 30.2185; -82.3825	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 / 29.7311; -84.9910	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 / 27.1807; -82.4602	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 / 27.6198; -81.8103	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 / 29.5772; -82.3076	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 / 30.2920; -87.4688	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 / 30.7088; -85.9274	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 / 29.4672; -82.2841	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 / 30.4718; -81.5124	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 / 29.0819; -82.4268	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 / 29.6328; -81.6414	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 / 29.8711; -82.6020	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 / 28.7722; -81.4535	14,164.77 acres (5,732 ha)	Protects the wildlife corridor between the Wekiva River and the Ocala National Forest; supports one of Central Florida's few remaining Florida black bear populations and the source spring of Rock Springs Run
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 / 29.8276; -82.6812	402.42 acres (162.9 ha)	Six springs (including the second-magnitude Gilchrist Blue Spring) discharging into the Santa Fe River; 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 / 29.7408; -82.4500	7,362.56 acres (2,980 ha)	Preserves one of Florida's largest remaining old-growth hardwood hammocks and the endangered Bat Cave sinkhole, home to a colony of southeastern myotis bats; the hammock was 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 / 30.1521; -84.2103	15.35 acres (6.21 ha)	Site of successive fortifications at the confluence of the Wakulla and St. Marks rivers built by Spain (1679), Britain (1763), the U.S. (1839), and the Confederacy (1861); NRHP-listed in 1966
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 / 24.8634; -80.6799	643.62 acres (260.5 ha)	Protects the wreck of the San Pedro, a 287-ton Dutch-built member of the 1733 Spanish treasure fleet lost to a hurricane; one of the first underwater state archaeological preserves in the United States
Savannas Preserve State Park		April 25, 1977	Martin, St. Lucie 27°18′58″N 80°17′12″W / 27.3162°N 80.2868°W / 27.3162; -80.2868	7,005.52 acres (2,835 ha)	Protects the largest remaining stretch of freshwater marsh basin on Florida's southeast coast, extending 10 miles (16 km) from Fort Pierce to Jensen Beach on the coastal ridge inland of the Indian River Lagoon
Seabranch Preserve State Park		October 22, 1991	Martin 27°08′07″N 80°10′06″W / 27.1353°N 80.1683°W / 27.1353; -80.1683	921.49 acres (372.9 ha)	Protects the last extensive tract of coastal sand scrub in Martin County 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 / 27.8602; -80.4522	972.4 acres (393.5 ha)	Located at the Sebastian Inlet, the only navigable pass to the Atlantic between Cape Canaveral and Fort Pierce; includes the McLarty Treasure Museum, interpreting the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet whose survivors camped on the site
Shoal River Headwaters State Park		October 7, 2025	Walton 30°46′22″N 86°13′45″W / 30.7729°N 86.2293°W / 30.7729; -86.2293	2,480.42 acres (1,004 ha)	Opened on January 23, 2026; protects the headwaters of the Shoal River, a designated Outstanding Florida Water tributary of the Yellow River
Silver Springs State Park		December 11, 1985	Marion 29°12′12″N 82°01′18″W / 29.2034°N 82.0217°W / 29.2034; -82.0217	4,739.92 acres (1,918 ha)	Contains Silver Springs, one of the largest artesian spring systems in the world; 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 / 27.6215; -82.6561	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 / 27.6162; -82.2515	1,129.44 acres (457 ha)	Undeveloped tract divided by the South Fork of the Little Manatee River and its bottomland forest floodplain, with scrub and rosemary scrub uplands; has the only known population in Florida of the broadleaf nodding cap orchid (Triphora amazonica)
St. Andrews State Park		August 23, 1946	Bay 30°07′07″N 85°43′13″W / 30.1186°N 85.7203°W / 30.1186; -85.7203	1,167.08 acres (472 ha)	Preserves 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of Gulf beach along St. Andrew Bay near Panama City Beach; the Gator Lake pier and the reconstructed "Cracker" turpentine still recall the site's early-20th-century industrial 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 / 27.1342; -80.1402	4,848.8 acres (1,962 ha)	Accessible only by boat, this barrier-island preserve on Jupiter Island protects one of Florida's few remaining hard-bottom nearshore reef communities and a mature stand of coastal maritime hammock
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 / 27.8210; -80.5618	21,629.35 acres (8,753 ha)	Protects 22,000 acres (8,900 ha) of pine flatwoods along the Sebastian River, home to the largest reintroduced population of the endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow and one of Florida's few managed red-cockaded woodpecker recovery areas
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 / 30.3319; -82.7788	903.9 acres (365.8 ha)	Commemorates songwriter Stephen Foster, whose 1851 ballad "Old Folks at Home" (Florida's state song since 1935) is set on the adjacent Suwannee River; hosts the annual 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 / 26.9053; -82.3448	232.13 acres (93.9 ha)	Occupies the southern tip of Manasota Key, where longshore drift continually reshapes the shoreline at Stump Pass, providing nesting beach for loggerhead sea turtles and habitat for the Anastasia Island beach mouse
Suwannee River State Park		June 23, 1936	Hamilton, Madison, Suwannee 30°24′06″N 83°09′39″W / 30.4018°N 83.1608°W / 30.4018; -83.1608	1,932.77 acres (782 ha)	Located at the confluence of the Suwannee and Withlacoochee rivers; contains Confederate earthworks built to defend a railroad bridge during the American Civil War and a well-preserved antebellum cemetery
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 / 29.8238; -85.4061	2,790.91 acres (1,129 ha)	Occupies the tip of a slender 20-mile (32 km) barrier peninsula between St. Joseph Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; sustained heavy damage from Hurricane Michael in 2018 and remains a national dark-sky-quality location
Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park		April 13, 1998	Escambia 30°21′38″N 87°23′29″W / 30.3605°N 87.3913°W / 30.3605; -87.3913	4,549.15 acres (1,841 ha)	Protects one of the largest remaining stands of Atlantic white-top pitcher plant (Sarracenia leucophylla) in the world within wet pitcher-plant bogs along Tarkiln Bayou; four of the six species of carnivorous plants native to the Panhandle occur here
Terra Ceia Preserve State Park		August 24, 1998	Manatee 27°35′52″N 82°33′44″W / 27.5978°N 82.5621°W / 27.5978; -82.5621	1,948.02 acres (788 ha)	Restores 2,000 acres (810 ha) of former aquaculture and agricultural land back to salt marsh and mangrove shoreline along Tampa Bay, one of the largest such coastal-restoration projects in the state
Three Rivers State Park		March 1, 1955	Jackson 30°44′21″N 84°55′26″W / 30.7393°N 84.9240°W / 30.7393; -84.9240	658.78 acres (266.6 ha)	Fronts Lake Seminole, an impoundment where the Chattahoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola rivers meet; the park spans upland hardwood-hammock slopes unusual in the Florida coastal plain
Tomoka State Park		October 30, 1945	Volusia 29°19′10″N 81°04′59″W / 29.3194°N 81.0830°W / 29.3194; -81.0830	1,628 acres (659 ha)	Occupies the peninsula between the Tomoka and Halifax rivers that was once the site of the Timucuan village of Nocoroco visited by the naturalist John Bartram in 1766; the 46-foot (14 m) "Chief Tomokie" statue commemorates a local Timucuan legend
Topsail Hill Preserve State Park		May 29, 1992	Walton 30°22′03″N 86°17′25″W / 30.3676°N 86.2903°W / 30.3676; -86.2903	1,647.96 acres (667 ha)	Home to the largest surviving natural population of the federally endangered Choctawhatchee beach mouse and the donor site for every reintroduction of the subspecies to other Florida Panhandle state parks since the 1980s; also preserves three coastal dune lakes and 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of undeveloped Emerald Coast shoreline
Torreya State Park		April 22, 1935	Gadsden, Liberty 30°32′56″N 84°55′17″W / 30.5490°N 84.9215°W / 30.5490; -84.9215	14,869.17 acres (6,017 ha)	Contains the largest surviving stands of the critically endangered Florida torreya, an endemic conifer found almost exclusively on the steep bluffs of the Apalachicola River; also preserves the antebellum Gregory House and Confederate river-defense earthworks; 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 / 30.0029; -82.9971	83.57 acres (33.82 ha)	Contains Troy Spring, a first-magnitude spring on the Suwannee River whose 70-foot (21 m) vent holds the wreck of the Confederate steamboat Madison, scuttled here in 1863 to prevent Union capture
Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park		December 10, 1971	Levy 29°08′56″N 82°49′53″W / 29.1489°N 82.8315°W / 29.1489; -82.8315	34,387.61 acres (13,916 ha)	Accessible only by water; protects salt marsh and tidal creeks broken up by tree islands of red cedar, cabbage palm, and live oak, along 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 / 29.6342; -81.2057	419.55 acres (169.8 ha)	Combines a coquina-boulder Atlantic shoreline (a rare exposure of the Anastasia Formation outside Anastasia State Park) with formal ornamental gardens developed on the site of a mid-19th-century plantation
Weeki Wachee Springs State Park		November 15, 2008	Hernando 28°31′12″N 82°35′03″W / 28.5200°N 82.5843°W / 28.5200; -82.5843	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 / 28.7479; -81.4798	9,175.47 acres (3,713 ha)	Contains the second-magnitude Wekiwa Springs, source of the federally designated Wild and Scenic Wekiva River on the northern edge of the Orlando metropolitan area
Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park		July 1, 2000	Pasco 28°18′55″N 82°43′14″W / 28.3152°N 82.7205°W / 28.3152; -82.7205	3,377.9 acres (1,367 ha)	Named for a salt spring whose vertical throat descends over 300 feet (91 m), making it one of the deepest known submerged sinkholes in Florida; protects estuarine coastline along the western Pasco County shore
Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park		June 11, 1986	Suwannee 30°07′54″N 83°08′11″W / 30.1316°N 83.1364°W / 30.1316; -83.1364	761 acres (308.0 ha)	Contains the Peacock Springs Cave System, one of the longest underwater cave systems in the continental United States and a globally significant site for cave diving; renamed in 2011 for underwater cinematographer 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 / 24.9571; -80.5951	320.38 acres (129.7 ha)	Preserves the exposed fossil-coral quarry face of the Key Largo Limestone cut by Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad crews between 1907 and 1912
Wingate Creek State Park		October 26, 1988	Manatee 27°26′47″N 82°08′35″W / 27.4465°N 82.1431°W / 27.4465; -82.1431	614.22 acres (248.6 ha)	Protects a section of hardwood swamp along Wingate Creek in the headwaters of the Manatee River, acquired to buffer public drinking water sources; open to hiking, biking, and equestrian use by permit
Ybor City Museum State Park		August 17, 1983	Hillsborough 27°57′43″N 82°26′19″W / 27.9619°N 82.4387°W / 27.9619; -82.4387	0.96 acres (0.39 ha)	Interprets the history of Ybor City, built by Vicente Martinez-Ybor as the "Cigar Capital of the World", which flourished from the opening of its first cigar factory in 1886 until the 1930s; the museum occupies the historic Ferlita Bakery
Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park		September 12, 1950	Duval 30°23′59″N 81°33′22″W / 30.3996°N 81.5562°W / 30.3996; -81.5562	1.74 acres (0.70 ha)	Preserves earthworks fortified by Confederate and later Union forces during the American Civil War to control access up the St. Johns River toward Jacksonville
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 / 30.5010; -87.0661	1,041 acres (421 ha)	Protects one of the largest remaining stands of wet prairie and pitcher-plant bog in the Florida Panhandle at the head of the Yellow River delta
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 / 28.7837; -82.6076	4.6 acres (1.86 ha)	Preserves the ruins of a mid-19th-century steam-powered sugar mill on the Yulee plantation, one of the few surviving examples of antebellum industrial architecture in Florida; NRHP-listed in 1970

State trails

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.

Florida state trails and greenways, as of July 1, 2026

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 / 30.6903; -87.0258	308.45 acres (124.8 ha)	8.1 miles (13.0 km)	Paved rail-trail on the former Florida and Alabama Railroad grade connecting Milton to Whiting Field, with a spur across the Blackwater River for equestrian use
Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail		May 18, 1994	Monroe 24°52′16″N 81°04′11″W / 24.8711°N 81.0697°W / 24.8711; -81.0697	328.92 acres (133.1 ha)	106 miles (170.6 km)	Paved rail-trail along the Overseas Highway corridor incorporating original bridges of Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad (1912–1935), including Long Key Viaduct and 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 / 29.5954; -82.1751	140.20 acres (56.7 ha)	16 miles (25.7 km)	Rail-trail traversing Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park between Gainesville and Hawthorne on the former Florida East Coast right-of-way; consistently ranked among Florida's top biking and birding trails
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 / 28.3954; -81.8981	421.70 acres (170.7 ha)	29.2 miles (47.0 km)	Straight, level rail-trail traversing the Green Swamp Wilderness Area; named for U.S. Army General James A. Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth Army during the Korean War
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 / 29.1974; -82.1810	74,136.59 acres (30,002 ha)	110 miles (177.0 km)	A 110-mile (180 km) linear park along the corridor of the abandoned Cross Florida Barge Canal, defeated in 1971 by an environmental campaign led by Marjorie Harris Carr, for whom it was renamed in 1998
Nature Coast State Trail		December 18, 1996	Dixie, Gilchrist, Levy 29°36′08″N 82°54′48″W / 29.6023°N 82.9132°W / 29.6023; -82.9132	656.27 acres (265.6 ha)	32 miles (51.5 km)	Paved rail-trail originating from a hub in Trenton, crossing the Suwannee River on a converted 1907 railroad trestle; connects the towns of Chiefland, Fanning Springs, and Cross City
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 / 29.8056; -82.0046	613.94 acres (248.5 ha)	47 miles (75.6 km)	Rail-trail under phased development on the former Georgia Southern and Florida Railway corridor, planned to connect Palatka to Lake Butler and to link 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 / 29.7370; -81.4938	69.88 acres (28.3 ha)	19 miles (30.6 km)	Paved rail-trail on the former Florida East Coast Railway corridor between Palatka and St. Augustine; component of the St. Johns River-to-Sea Loop regional trail system
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 / 30.2328; -83.0553	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 / 30.2576; -84.2371	150.80 acres (61.0 ha)	16 miles (25.7 km)	Paved rail-trail on the route of Florida's first railroad (1837), a mule-drawn line built to carry cotton from Tallahassee to the port at St. Marks; NRHP-listed as the Tallahassee-St. Marks Railroad Historic District
Withlacoochee State Trail		December 21, 1989	Citrus, Hernando, Pasco 28°43′09″N 82°17′48″W / 28.7192°N 82.2967°W / 28.7192; -82.2967	761.58 acres (308.2 ha)	47 miles (75.6 km)	Longest paved trail in the Florida park system at 47 miles (76 km), running from Trilby to Citrus Springs on the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; part of the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail

Units by classification

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.

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