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Highlands Hammock State Park is a 9,000-acre (3,640 ha) park 4 miles (6 km) west of Sebring in Highlands County, Florida, off U.S. 27. The park opened in 1931, four years before the Florida state park system was created.
Pages in category "Parks in Highlands County, Florida" ... Highlands Hammock State Park; J. Jack Creek (Florida) L. Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park; V.
2019: The Wild Divide: Throughout this 7-day trek the team of conservations traveled from Highlands Hammock State Park to the Tiger Creek Preserve. The film was made in hopes it would be used as a tool to find better solutions to connect and restore wildlife throughout Florida. [36]
Opened in August 1935, the 9,000-acre Highlands Hammock is one of Florida's first state parks and it's home to more rare and endemic species than any other state park in Florida. Bring your ...
On 19 August 2024 the Florida Department of Environmental Protection announced plans [21] to build golf courses and 350-room lodges on state park lands. [22]In statements to the Tampa Bay Times and in posts to social media, the agency claimed that the construction of a golf course on vulnerable scrub habitat will be done in a way to "minimize habitat impacts".
This lake is south of Sebring, Florida, and inside the southeast part of Highlands Hammock State Park. The area immediately surrounding it is rural, but there are housing developments scattered through the area in which the lake is located. [5] [6] Blue Lake provides public access along its entire shore.
Are You Ready for High Allegheny National Park? - Woodshed, 2011: Hooker Hammock National Park Florida 1930 In the face of plans to convert the area to farmland, Mayor C. S. Donaldson and locals proposed a national park out of what is now Highlands Hammock State Park. [41] Correspondence of proposed Hooker Hammock National Park, npshistory.com
Matheson Hammock Park, a 630acre urban park in metropolitan Miami; Hammocks Beach State Park, a North Carolina state park in Onslow County; Simpson Park Hammock, a 7.8 acre urban park located between Brickell and The Roads neighborhoods of Miami; Highlands Hammock State Park, a 9000-acre park west of Sebring in Highlands County, Florida; San ...