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Lake Louisa State Park is a 4,372-acre (17.69 km 2) Florida State Park located south of Clermont, in the northeast corner of the Green Swamp and the southwestern shore of Lake Louisa. It is made up of bald cypress, live oak, and saw palmettos. In addition to Lake Louisa, the park contains Hammond Lake, Dixie Lake, Dude Lake, and Bear Lake ...
Dixie Lake is the largest lake within Lake Louisa State Park and during high water levels flows into Big Creek. There are rental cabins on its south shore. Crescent Lake in the suburb of South Clermont is connected to Lake Minnehaha via Lake Hattie and Lake Williamee through a canal connecting the four. Crescent Lake has a bay at its south end ...
Lake Kissimmee State Park: Polk: 5,930 acres (2,402 ha) 1977: Lake Kissimmee: The 1876 Cow Camp is a living history site with Cracker Cowboys: Lake Louisa State Park: Lake: 4,372 acres (1,771 ha) 1974: Lake Louisa: Park includes the Green Swamp and six lakes Lake Manatee State Park: Manatee: 556 acres (225 ha) 1970: Lake Manatee: 60-site ...
The park was originally a Florida State Park and a fish hatchery operated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission from 1936 until 1951. Activities include hiking, fishing, boating, camping, and wildlife viewing.
Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park is an 18,000-acre (7,300 ha) Florida State Park located on six miles (10 km) of the St. Johns River in Lake and Seminole counties. The park forms a wildlife corridor to the Ocala National Forest along the Wekiva and St. Johns Rivers. A great blue heron takes flight from the Lower Wekiva River. 5/13/14
Florida’s state park system is a bastion of wildness in a state where vast stretches of sugar sand beaches and mangrove forests have long given way to condos, motels and strip mall souvenir shops.
Three Rivers State Park is a Florida State Park located north of Sneads, on the shores of Lake Seminole near the Georgia border, in northwestern Florida. It is named for the main rivers associated with Lake Seminole: the Chattahoochee and the Flint (which flow into it from Georgia), and the Apalachicola (whose source is the lake itself.)
Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park is a 4,290-acre (17.4 km 2) preserve, a unit of Florida State Park located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Pensacola, in northwestern Florida. It is home to four species of endangered pitcher plants, as well as other rare and endangered plant species.