Mangroves are trees that can be often be found along the water. They’re easy to identify by their prop roots – finger-like roots that hold the trees above the water in a tangle of shoots. These prop ...

Program is free with $4.00 entry fee to park. No entry fee for State Park Pass Holders. Description Living History Program of John James Audubon, American painter and ornithologist, presenting on his ...

Florida's heritage comes alive with living history demonstrations of the early Florida cow hunters in an 1876-era cow camp. White-tailed deer, bald eagles, sandhill cranes, turkeys and bobcats have ...

Imagine being led by a guide on a tour through a brick 19th-century fort, learning the history and stories like never before. Imagine taking a stroll on the Willow Pond Nature Trail, aided by an ...

The Battle of Olustee was the climax to a Union invasion of Florida that had started just a few weeks before. General Quincy Gilmore, commander of the Union’s Department of the South, dispatched Brig.

When Hurricane Michael came ashore as a near category five storm on October 10, 2018 some of the tallest coastal sand dunes in the Florida Panhandle, those running the roughly ten miles of the park, ...

Have you ever camped on an island before? Join us on island time by camping in one of our primitive cabins! A park ferry is available to transport you across the St. Johns River to your island ...

Loop left around the Fishing Museum after the Ranger's Station. Then turn right at the stop sign. Coconut Point Pavilions 3 & 4 are all the way at the end past the campground and boat ramp. Bobby Owen ...

The entrance to the Cumberland Sound and the St Mary’s River has been of vital importance to the people of Florida for close to 300 years. The first fortifications on the site began in 1736, but it ...

Florida State Parks are open from 8 a.m. to sunset every day of the year. Many museums, visitor centers and historic sites may be closed two days per week, usually Tuesday and Wednesday. Hours may ...

Every year on the third Friday of May, we observe Endangered Species Day. At Florida’s state parks, we protect wildlife habitat by managing these critical lands and waters every day. We take special ...