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Hog Lake is the historical name for Lake Granada, a natural freshwater lake in the Sun 'N Lake community, in Highlands County, Florida. Lake Granada has a surface area of 19.6-acre (79,000 m 2). About 1-acre (4,000 m 2) of this is a manmade island inside the lake. The lake is directly north of the Sun 'N Lake community center and is inside a park.
Big Shoals State Park in Hamilton County, Florida, [1] is a Florida State Park. It is approximately one mile (1.6 km) east of White Springs, off US 41. The park is situated on the Suwannee River and features limestone bluffs as well as the biggest whitewater rapids in all of Florida. The park also features more than 28 miles (45 km) of hiking ...
Hontoon Island State Park is a 1,648-acre (6.67 km 2) Florida State Park located on Hontoon Island between the St. Johns River and the Hontoon Dead River in Volusia County. It is six miles (10 km) west of DeLand, off SR 44, and can only be reached by boat or park-operated passenger ferry. No motorized vehicles, other than wheelchairs, are ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains 10 parks along the shore of the lake, [10] with 35 parks in total available for recreation, including five campgrounds. [11] Seminole State Park covers 604 acres (244 ha) of lakeshore in Georgia, while Three Rivers State Park covers 686 acres (278 ha) of wetland [ 12 ] north of Sneads, Florida .
The name of Lake Welaka is taken from "Welaka" (meaning "chain of lakes"), the name for the St. Johns River in Muskogee language of the Seminole. [2] The first European to visit the lake was Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, who as the Spanish governor of Florida, explored the St. Johns River in the spring of 1596.
Bushnell is a city and the county seat of Sumter County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,047 at the 2020 census. The population was 3,047 at the 2020 census. It is part of The Villages metropolitan area, which consists of all of Sumter County and is included in the Orlando–Lakeland–Deltona combined statistical area .
Honeymoon Island State Park is a Florida State Park located on Honeymoon Island, a barrier island across St. Joseph Sound from Dunedin, Palm Harbor, Ozona, and Crystal Beach. The park is 385 acres (1.6 km 2 ) in land area with 2,400 acres (10 km 2 ) submerged and 4 miles (6 km) of beach .
Drayton Island is a privately owned heavily wooded island at the northern end of Lake George on the west side of the Saint Johns River's main channel in Putnam County, Florida, United States. [ 1 ] Drayton Island, during the steamboat period on the St. Johns River, was a scheduled stop for tourists and boasted a hotel built in 1875 that burned ...