Florida State Parks

Enjoy Florida beautiful state parks with many providing camping, fishing, hiking, boating and so much more. 

Addison Blockhouse Historic State Park

Located in Volusia County on 134 acres near the Tomoka River features Ruins of a 19th-century plantation owned by John Addison

Alafia River State Park

Located in Hillsborough County on 6,312 near the Alafia River. Features a former phosphorus strip mine that is unremediated.

Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park

Located in Leon County on 1,180 acres near Lake Hall. Originally named Killearn Gardens State Park.

Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park

Located in Polk County on 8,065 acres. Home to rare scrub habitat for wildlife

Amelia Island State Park

Located in Nassau County on 230 acres near the Nassau Sound (Atlantic Ocean). Horseback riding is permitted on the beach.

Anastasia State Park

Located in St Johns County on 1,600 acres near the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Dora connected Anastasia Island and Conch Island in 1964.

Anclote Key Preserve State Park

Located in Pasco County on 403 acres near the Gulf of Mexico. Accessible only by ferry or boat.

Avalon State Park

Located in St Lucie County on 650 acres near the Atlantic Ocean. Used for frogman training during World War II.

Bahia Honda State Park

Located in Monroe County on 524 acres near the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico). An island in the lower Florida Keys.

Bald Point State Park

Located in Franklin County on 4,065 acres near the Gulf of Mexico. Amphibious landing exercises held during World War II.

Big Lagoon State Park

Located in Escambia County on 705 acres near Big Lagoon. Start of the Great Florida Birding Trail.

Big Shoals State Park

Located in Hamilton County on 3,772 acres near the Suwannee River. Largest whitewater class 3 rapids in Florida.

Big Talbot Island State Park

Located in Duval County on 1,600 acres near the Atlantic Ocean. Part of Talbot Islands State Parks.

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

Located in Miami-Dade County on 400 acres near the Atlantic Ocean. Home to the Cape Florida Light on Key Biscayne.

Blackwater River State Park

Located in Santa Rosa County on 590 acres near the Blackwater River. Home to 1982 Florida Champion Atlantic white cedar tree.

Blue Spring State Park

Located in Volusia County on 2,600 acres near the St Johns River. Largest spring on the St. Johns River and a designated manatee refuge

Bulow Creek State Park

Located in Volusia County on 5,600 acres near the Bulow Creek. Featuring 400-year-old Fairfield oak and 11 plantation sites.

Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park

Located in Flagler County on 150 acres near Bulow Creek. Features extensive stone ruins.

Caladesi Island State Park

Located in Pinellas County on 2,450 acres near the Gulf of Mexico. Ferry available with a 108 slip marina nearby.

Camp Helen State Park

Located in Bay County on 185 acres near Lake Powell. This day use park was formerly used as private resort.

Cayo Costa State Park

Located in Lee County on 2,426 acres near the Gulf of Mexico. Accessible only by ferry or boat, Featuring primitive cabins.

Cedar Key Museum State Park

Located in Levy County on 19 acres near the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Clair Whitman house depicts life in Cedar Key circa 1920.

Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve

Located in Levy County on 5,028 acres near the Gulf of Mexico with limited facilities. 

Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park

Located in Charlotte County on 42,518 acres near the Gasparilla Pass Charlotte Harbor with limited facilities. 

Collier-Seminole State Park

Located in Collier County on 6,430 acres near the Gulf of Mexico. National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, the Bay City Walking Dredge used to build the Tamiami Trail through the Everglades.

Colt Creek State Park

Located in Polk County on 5,067 acres which ar part of the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve.

Constitution Convention Museum State Park

Located in Gulf County on 13 acres near St Joseph Bay. It the site where the first  Florida Constitution was drafted in 1838.

Crystal River Archaeological State Park

Located in Citrus County on 61 acres near Crystal River. National Historic Landmark and one of the oldest continuously occupied pre-Columbian sites in Florida.

Crystal River Preserve State Park

Located in Citrus County on 30,000 acres near Crystal River. Features a rare spring fed estuary.

Curry Hammock State Park

Located in Monroe County on 1,000 acres near the Gulf of Mexico, Named for a Miami teacher whose family owned the key land.

Dade Battlefield Historic State Park

Located in Sumter County on 80 acres. Site is witness during the Second Seminole War battle where 105 of 108 troops were massacred by 180 Native Americans.

Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park

Located in Monroe County on 2,421 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. 

De Leon Springs State Park

Located in Volusia County on 600 acres near the Crystal River. Features “Old Methuselah” is a 500-year-old bald cypress; previously a private park with Jungle Cruise.

Deer Lake State Park

Located in Walton County on 1,995 acres, near Deer Lake that is a rare freshwater lake among coastal dunes

Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park

Located in Collier County on 166 acres near the Cocohatchee River. Features barrier island with white sugar sand beaches.

DeSoto Site Historic State Park

Located in Leon County on 5 acres. Site of Hernando de Soto 1839 encampment and Gov. John W. Martin House

Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park

Located in Alachua County on 67 acres. Features a 120 foot deep, 500 foot wide sinkhole accessed by 232 step stairway.

Don Pedro Island State Park

Located in Charlotte County on 230 acres near the Gulf of Mexico. The barrier island is accessible only by boat or ferry.

Dudley Farm Historic State Park

Located in Alachua County on 325 acres. Features agricultural development in Florida from the 1850s through the mid 1940s.

Dunns Creek State Park

Located in Putnam County on 6,000 acres near St Johns River. Site where steamboat had stopped during the 1920s.

Econfina River State Park

Located in Taylor County on 4,543 acres near the Econfina River. Site where Confederate deserters camped here and assisted in blockading Union  ships during the Civil War.

Eden Gardens State Park

Located in Walton County on 163 acres near the Tucker Bayou. Features a restored plantation house with Louis XVI style furniture.

Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park

Located in Wakulla County on 6,000 acres near the Wakulla River. Features one of the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world.

Egmont Key State Park

Located in Hillsborough County on 328 acres near Tampa Bay. Features the ruins of Fort Dade and Egmont Key Light are inside the park.

Estero Bay Preserve State Park

Located in Lee County on 10,000 acres near Estero Bay. Featuring the first aquatic nature preserve established in Florida.

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

Located in Collier County on 75,000 acres. It is part of the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades.

Falling Waters State Park

Located in Washington County on 171 acres. Features a 73 foot waterfall, the tallest in Florida.

Fanning Springs State Park

Located in Gilchrist County on 1,427 acres. Features the first magnitude spring purchased by the state in 1993.

Faver-Dykes State Park

Located in St. Johns County on 6,045 acres near Pellicer Creek. Featuring a wildness area.

Florida Caverns State Park

Located in Jackson County on 1,300 acres near Chipola River. The only Florida state park with public cave tours.

Forest Capital Museum State Park

Located in Taylor County on 14 acres. Features a late 1800s Florida cracker homestead.

Fort Clinch State Park

Located in Nassau County on 1,427 acres near the Amelia River. Featuring of Fort Clinch that began in 1847.

Fort Cooper State Park

Located in Citrus County on 710 acres near Lake Holathlikaha. The Withlacoochee State Trail threads though the area.

Fort Foster State Historic Site

Located in Hillsborough on 30 acres. It is part of Hillsborough River State Park; replica fort built in 1972.

Fort George Island Cultural State Park

Located in Duval County on 1,600 acres near the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Dora connected Anastasia Island and Conch Island in 1964.

Fort Mose Historic State Park

Located in St. Johns County on 24 acres. National Historic Landmark originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mosé.

Fort Pierce Inlet State Park

Located in St. Lucie County on 340 acres near Tucker Cove. Used for frogman training during World War II.

Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park

Located in Monroe County on 87 acres near the Straits of Florida, Feature a Pre-civil war fort that was abandoned, in which restoration began in the late 1960s by volunteers.

Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park

Located in Okaloosa County on 357 acres near Rocky Bayou.

Gainesville Hawthorne State Trail

Located in Alachua County. A 16 mil trail that passes through Panynes Prairie.

Gamble Plantation Historic State Park

Located in Manatee County on 87 acres near the Manatee River. It is the sole surviving antebellum mansion in south Florida, once a 3,500-acre sugarcane plantation.

Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach

Located in Flagler County on 144 acres near the Atlantic Ocean. It was renamed from Flagler Beach State Recreation Area in 1992.

Gasparilla Island State Park

Located in Charlotte and Lee Counties on 128 acres near Charlotte Harbor. Featuring the Gasparilla Island Lights that were lit in 1890.

George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier

Located in Duval County near Nassau Sound, Atlantic Ocean. A pedestrian only fishing bridge.

Gilchrist Blue Spring State Park

Located in Gilchrist County on 407 acres near the Santa Fe River. Several springs in the park, including a second magnitude spring with 44 million gallons per day.

Grayton Beach State Park

Located in Walton County on 2,200 acres near Western Lake, Gulf of Mexico. Popular pristine beach offers cabins & camping, boating, fishing and trails.

Henderson Beach State Park

Located in Okaloosa County on 222 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. A U.S. Air Force Clausen Tracking site until 1951

Highlands Hammock State Park

Located in Highland County on 9,000 acres. This is one of the highest ranking parks in Florida for endemic biodiversity.

Hillsborough River State Park

Located in Hillsborough County on 3,383 acres near the Hillsborough River. Feature Fort Foster.

Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Located in Citrus County on 210 acres near the Homosassa River. Home to many mamatees.

Honeymoon Island State Park

Located in Pinellas County on 2,785 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. Accessible by bridge from Dunedin.

Hontoon Island State Park

Located in Volusia and Lake County on 1,648 acres near St. Johns River and Hontoon Dead River. Accessible only by ferry or boat.

Hugh Taylor Birch State Park

Located in Broward County on 180 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. The park is in the middle of urban Fort Lauderdale.

Ichetucknee Springs State Park

Located in Columbia County on 2,241 acres near the Ichetucknee River. Drift tubing and certified cave diving are just a few activities available.

Indian Key Historic State Park

Located in Monroe County on 10 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. It was the first county seat for Dade County; accessible only by boat.

John D. MacArthur Beach State Park

Located in Palm Beach County on 325 acres near Lake Worth and the Atlantic Ocean. A gift from John D. MacArthur to the people of Florida.

John Gorrie Museum State Park

Located in Franklin County on 1 acre. Site of physician John Gorrie patented the first mechanical refrigeration process (air conditioning).

John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park

Located in Monroe County on 53,000 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. It’s the first underwater park in the United States.

John U. Lloyd Beach State Park

Located in Broward County on 310 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. It was named for county attorney who led preservation efforts.

Jonathan Dickinson State Park

Located in Martin County on 11,500 acres near Locxahatchee River. It was formerly a top-secret radar training school during WWII; now hosts the Elsa Kimbell Environmental Education & Research Center.

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park

Located in Okeechobee County on 54,000 acres. Formerly used by the U.S. Army used the land to train B-17 bomber crews during World War II.

Koreshan State Historic Site

Located in Lee County on 135 acres near the Estero River. Home of the Koreshan Unity group.

Koreshan State Historic Site

Located in Lafayette County on 702 acres near Suwannee River. First magnitude spring with 168 million gallons per day,

Lake Griffin State Park

Located in Lake County on 578 acres near Dead and Oklawaha Rivers. Connects Oklawaha to Lake Griffin.

Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park

Located in Leon County on 100 acres near St Marks River. Fort Walton Culture capital from 1050 to 1500.

Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park

Located in Highlands County on 845 acres near Lake June in Winter.

Lake Kissimmee State Park

Located in Polk County on 5,930 acres near Lake Kissimmee. The 1876 Cow Camp is a living history site with Cracker Cowboys.

Lake Louisa State Park

Located in Lake County on 4,372 acres near Lake Louisa. Park includes the Green Swamp and six lakes.

Lake Manatee State Park

Located in Manatee County on 556 acres near Lake Manatee. A 60-site campground was opened in 1986.

Lake Talquin State Park

Located in Leon and Gadsden Counties on 526 acres near Lake Talquin. Lake Talquin is a 10,000 acr reservoir created by the Jackson Bluff Dam on the Ochlockonee River.

Honeymoon Island State Park

Located in Pinellas County on 2,785 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. Accessible by bridge from Dunedin.

Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park

Located in Jefferson County on 188 acres near Lake Miccosukee. Site of the tallest prehistoric, Native American ceremonial earthwork mound in Florida.

Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park

Located in Monroe County on 10,481 acres near Florida Bay, Gulf of Mexico. Access via private boat or tour boat; daily visitors are limited.

Little Manatee River State Park Island State Park

Located in Hillsborough County on 2,433 acres near Little Manatee River. Park includes equestrian trails and campsites.

Little Talbot Island State Park

Located in Duval County on 1,600 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. Part of Talbot Island State Parks.

Long Key State Park

Located in Monroe County on 965 acres at the Atlantic Ocean.

Lovers Key State Park

Located in Lee County on 712 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. Lovers Key State Park merged with Carl Johnson County Park in 1996.

Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park

Located in Lake and Seminole Counties on 17,405 acres near Wekiva and St Johns River. It is a wildlife corridor to the Ocala National Forest.

Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site

Located in Manatee County on 10 acres near Tampa Bay.

Madison Blue Spring State Park

Located in Madison County on 1 acre near Withlacoochee River. First magnitude spring.

Manatee Springs State Park

Located in Levy County on 2,4433 acres near Manatee Springs. First magnitude spring.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park

Located in Alachua County on 99 acres. Features a 1930s farm and citrus orchard.

Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park

Located in Clay County on 2,000 acres near Little Lake Johnson. Features hiking and Equestrian trails.

Mound Key Archaeological State Park

Located in Lee County on 113 acres near Estero Bay. Accessible only by boat.

Myakka River State Park

Located in Sarasota and Manatee Counties on 37,000 acres near Myakka River and Upper Myakka Lake.

Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park

Located in Leon County on 113 acres near the St Marks River. Site of the second largest Civil War battle in Florida.

North Peninsula State Park

Located in Volusia County on 534 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. Metal pieces from the wreck of the North Western, which sank prior to World War II, have emerged on the beach.

O'Leno State Park

Located in Columbia County on 6,000 acres near the Santa Fe River.

Ochlockonee River State Park

Located in Wakulla County on 392 acres near Ochlockonee and Dead River

Honeymoon Island State Park

Located in Pinellas County on 2,785 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. Accessible by bridge from Dunedin.

Okeechobee Battlefield State Park

Located in Okeechobee County on 211 acres near Lake Okeechobee. Battle site during the Second Seminole War.

Oleta River State Park

Located in Miami-Dade County on 1,043 acres near Oleta River and Biscayne Bay.

Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park

Located in Baker County on 43 acres. The first state historic monument in 1909.

Orman House Historic State Park

Located in Franklin County on 1 acre near Apalachicola River. Home built in 1838.

Oscar Scherer State Park

Located in Sarasota County on 1,400 acres near South Creek and Lake Osprey. Major habitat of the Florida Scrub Jay.

Paynes Creek Historic State Park

Located in Hardee County on 410 acres near Paynes Creek. Site of Fort Chokonikla and the Kennedy-Darling trading post during the Seminole Wars.

Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park

Located in Alachua County on 21,000 acres near Lake Wauburg. Savanna formerly occupied by Seminole Indians.

Perdido Key State Park

Located in Escambia County on 290 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. A barrier island.

Ponce de Leon Springs State Park

Located in Holmes County on 420 acres near Mill and Sandy Creek. Has a water outflow of 14 million gallons water outflow daily.

Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park

Located in Duval County on 3,896 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. Park of Talbot Islands State Parks.

Rainbow Springs State Park

Located in Marion County on 1,472 acres near Rainbow River that has 600 million gallons of water outflow daily.

Ravine Gardens State Park

Located in Putnam County on 59 acres near St Johns River.

River Rise Preserve State Park

Located in Columbia County on 4,500 acres near Santa Fe River.

Rock Springs Run State Reserve

Located in Lake County on 14,150 acres near Wekiva River.

San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park

Located in Alachua County on 7,360 acres with mature Florida forest and wildlife habitat with hiking, biking, and horse trails

San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park

Located in Wakulla County on 17 acres near Wakulla and St Marks Rivers.

San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park

Located in Monroe County on 644 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. Dutch-built ship sank in a hurricane on July 13, 1733.

Savannas Preserve State Park

Located in St Lucie and Martin Counties on 6,000 acres near Indian River. This area around Jensen Beach was known as the “Pineapple Capital of the World” from 1895 to 1920.

Seabranch Preserve State Park

Located in Martin County on 7,360 acres near Indian River Lagoon.

Sebastian Inlet State Park

Located in Brevard and Indian River Counties on 755 acres near Sebastian Inlet. It is the second most visited Florida park.

Silver Springs State Park

Located in Marion County on 5,000 acres near Silver River.

Skyway Fishing Pier State Park

Located in Hillsborough and Manatee Counties on 26,000 acres near Tampa Bay

St. Andrews State Park

Located in Bay County on 1,200 acres at the Gulf of Mexico / Grand Lagoon.

St George Island State Park

Located in Franklin County on 1,962 at the Gulf of Mexico.

St. Andrews State Park

Located in Martin County on 928 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. Barrier island accessible only by boat.

St Marks River Preserve State Park

Located in Leon County on 2,589 acres near St Marks River which flows from the wetlands east of Tallahassee to the Gulf of Mexico.

flows from the wetlands east of Tallahassee to the Gulf of Mexico

Located in Brevard and Indian River Counties on 22,000 acres near St Sebastian River.

flows from the wetlands east of Tallahassee to the Gulf of Mexico

Located in Hamilton County on 800 acres near Suwannee River.

Stump Pass Beach State Park

Located in Charlotte County on 245 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. This day park consists of three islands offer swimming and boating, shelling and hiking, fishing and diving.

Suwannee River State Park

Located in Suwannee County on 1,800 acres near Suwannee and Withlacoochee River. The 1860 Columbus Cemetery, pieces from an 1800s sawmill, and Civil War earthworks are points of interest

T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park

Located in Gulf County on 1,900 acres at the Gulf of Mexico.

Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park

Located in Escambia County on 4,290 acres near Perdido Bay

Terra Ceia Preserve State Park

Located in Manatee County on 1,932 acres near Tampa Bay.

The Barnacle Historic State Park

Located in Miami Dade County on 5 acres near Biscayne Bay. Features oldest house in Coconut Grove; built in 1891.

Three Rivers State Park

Located in Jackson County on 686 acres near Chattahoochee River, Flint River and Lake Seminole.

Tomoka State Park

Located in Volusia County on 1,800 acres near Tomoka River.

Topsail Hill Preserve State Park

Located in Walton County on 1,643 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. Site of munitions testing range during World War II.

Torreya State Park

Located in Liberty County on 13,737 acres near Apalachicola River.

Troy Spring State Park

Located in Suwannee and Lafayette Counties on 84 acres near Suwannee River. First magnitude spring; the Civil War steamboat “Madison” was scuttled there in 1863.

Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park

Located in Levy County on 30,784 acres at the Gulf of Mexico. Accessible only by boat.

Washington Oaks Gardens State Park

Located in Flagler County on 21 acres at the Atlantic Ocean.

Weeki Wachee Springs

Located in Hernando County on 538 acres near Weeki Wachee River

Weeki Wachee Springs

Located in Orange County on 7,723 acres near Wekiva River. 42 million gallons of water outflow daily.

Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park

Located in Pasco County on 3,400 acres at the Gulf of Mexico.

Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park

Located in Suwannee County on 733 acres near Suwannee River. 28,000 feet (8,534 m) of explored passageways make it one of the largest locations for cave diving in the U.S.

Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park

Located in Monroe County on 32 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. Features the quarry that provided Keystone (limestone) for the Overseas Railroad in 1908

Ybor City Museum State Park

Located in Hillsborough County on 1 acre. Shows the history of Tampa’s cigar industry and Latin influence.

Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park

Located in Duval County on 1,600 acres at the Atlantic Ocean. Confederate camp constructed during the American Civil War.

Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Parkk

Located in Santa Rosa County on 11,000 acres near Yellow River. One of Florida’s last remaining tracts of wet prairie; no recreation facilities.

Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park

Located in Citrus County on 6 acres near Homosassa River. Senator David Levy Yulee built the mill on his 5,100-acre plantation, Margarita, in 1851.