List of Florida state parks

Florida State Parks
Sunset at Honeymoon Island State Park, historically the most visited state park in the State of Florida
Area	819,000 acres (331,000 ha)
Established	1935 (1935)
Visitors	28 million (in 2023)
Governing body	Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Recreation and Parks
Website	www.floridastateparks.org

The Florida state park system consists of 176 units managed by the Florida Park Service (FPS), a division of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. It encompasses more than 819,000 acres (331,000 ha) distributed across 63 of Florida's 67 counties. This list covers all 176 units in the Florida Park Service's most recent jurisdiction report, one of which that report classifies as undetermined. Former units, including Royal Palm State Park (1916–1947) and the state's segregation-era park system for African Americans, are covered in Florida Park Service. The units currently managed are grouped into 17 different classifications; state parks, state recreation areas, and state preserves are the most common. A summary of parks by classification can be found in the Parks system summary section.

Established in 1935, the system ranges from pre-Columbian archaeological sites to first-magnitude springs, coral reefs, and roadless barrier islands only accessible by boat or ferry. Of the 176 parks and trails, 13 of them contain National Natural Landmarks. Many of the state's best-known parks include Silver Springs, Homosassa Springs, Rainbow Springs, and Weeki Wachee Springs, all of which started out as private tourist attractions before the State of Florida acquired them. The newest unit in the Florida park system is Shoal River Headwaters State Park in Walton County, which was acquired on October 7, 2025 and opened to the public on January 23, 2026.

The Florida Park Service is a four-time recipient of the National Recreation and Park Association's Gold Medal Award for the best state park system in the United States. It won in 1999, 2005, 2013, and 2019, and was a finalist in 1997, 2011, and 2025.

In 2023, the Florida Park Service's 1,040 staff members and 19,854 volunteers served 28 million visitors across 198 cabins, 3,311 campsites, 101 miles (163 km) of beaches, and 2,275 miles (3,661 km) of trails. Operations are funded by dedicated documentary stamp tax revenue, visitor fees, and local non-profit "friends of the park" groups. While most parks charge an entrance fee, Florida residents can purchase an annual pass valid statewide. Campsite reservations within the parks are handled through ReserveAmerica.

Florida state parks and reserves

Park name	Image	Acquired	County and location	Area	Notable feature
Addison Blockhouse Historic State Park		January 12, 1945	Volusia 29.3322°N 81.0956°W / 29.3322; -81.0956	147.93 acres (59.9 ha)	Coquina ruins of an 1816 plantation kitchen fortified as "Camp M'Rae" during the Second Seminole War; the park is not open to the public
Alafia River State Park		December 19, 1996	Hillsborough 27.7735°N 82.1201°W / 27.7735; -82.1201	7,717.8 acres (3,123 ha)	An old phosphate strip mine with pits and spoil piles creates hills and dips uncommon in Florida, making it one of Florida's best known mountain biking trail networks
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park		March 31, 1953	Leon 30.5286°N 84.2602°W / 30.5286; -84.2602	1,170.19 acres (474 ha)	Azalea and camellia gardens were planted starting in 1923 by New York financier Alfred B. Maclay on his Killearn winter estate; the grounds are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Killearn Plantation Archeological and Historic District
Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park		December 20, 1991	Polk 27.9775°N 81.4528°W / 27.9775; -81.4528	8,403.66 acres (3,401 ha)	Part of the Florida Forever Catfish Creek project protecting Lake Wales Ridge scrub habitat; endemic and rare species include the Florida scrub jay, Florida sand skink, and blue calamintha bee
Amelia Island State Park		July 15, 1983	Nassau 30.5204°N 81.4393°W / 30.5204; -81.4393	235.68 acres (95.4 ha)	Undeveloped southern tip of Amelia Island with beach, salt marsh, and coastal maritime forest; the only Florida state park that permits horseback riding on the beach
Anastasia State Park		March 31, 1949	St. Johns 29.8856°N 81.2791°W / 29.8856; -81.2791	1,593.17 acres (645 ha)	Site of the Old Spanish Coquina Quarries, an NRHP-listed archaeological district where coquina stone was mined to build the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine beginning in 1672
Anclote Key Preserve State Park		April 1, 1960	Pasco Pinellas 28.1776°N 82.8402°W / 28.1776; -82.8402	12,209.61 acres (4,941 ha)	A preserve located on a barrier island 3 miles (4.8 km) off Tarpon Springs, centered on the Anclote Keys Lighthouse dating back to 1887, and including Three Rooker Island which is an important Gulf Coast nesting site for the American oystercatcher and the piping plover
Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park		December 6, 2000	Martin 27.0935°N 80.2131°W / 27.0935; -80.2131	4,886.06 acres (1,977 ha)	A wet-prairie and hydric-hammock preserve descending from a sandy ridge to the South Fork of the St. Lucie River; habitat for the Florida sandhill crane, wood stork, and bald eagle
Avalon State Park		December 12, 1985	St. Lucie 27.5439°N 80.3248°W / 27.5439; -80.3248	657.58 acres (266.1 ha)	Undeveloped Atlantic beach used for U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Teams training during World War II as part of the Naval Amphibious Training Base at Fort Pierce
Bahia Honda State Park		September 21, 1961	Monroe 24.6664°N 81.2623°W / 24.6664; -81.2623	496.74 acres (201.0 ha)	Site of the 1999 rediscovery of the Miami blue butterfly, previously thought extinct following Hurricane Andrew; retains a remnant of Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad on the Bahia Honda Rail Bridge
Bald Point State Park		September 2, 1999	Franklin 29.9480°N 84.4046°W / 29.9480; -84.4046	12,154.21 acres (4,919 ha)	Protects 31 recorded archaeological sites, the largest being the Tucker shell midden (8FR4) with over 70 human burials, documenting continuous Native American occupation from the Deptford through Fort Walton periods
The Barnacle Historic State Park		June 8, 1973	Miami-Dade 25.7238°N 80.2420°W / 25.7238; -80.2420	9.59 acres (3.88 ha)	1891 waterfront home of yacht designer Ralph Middleton Munroe, founding Commodore of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. The oldest house in Miami-Dade County still on its original site and listed on the NRHP as the Ralph M. Munroe House
Big Lagoon State Park		March 1, 1943	Escambia 30.3153°N 87.4107°W / 30.3153; -87.4107	706.77 acres (286.0 ha)	Gateway site of the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail, protecting nine distinct coastal communities that shelter the snowy plover, least tern, and other listed shorebirds
Big Shoals State Park		November 19, 1986	Hamilton Columbia 30.3390°N 82.7086°W / 30.3390; -82.7086	1,681.01 acres (680 ha)	Contains the largest whitewater rapids in Florida, a stretch of limestone shoals on the Suwannee River that reach Class III difficulty<
Big Talbot Island State Park		August 20, 1982	Duval 30.4805°N 81.4456°W / 30.4805; -81.4456	2,679.39 acres (1,084 ha)	An undeveloped barrier island known for Boneyard Beach, a shoreline littered with the salt-bleached live oaks and cedars, and for Blackrock Beach's dark sedimentary hardpan formations unique on the Florida coast
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park		March 31, 1966	Miami-Dade 25.6755°N 80.1591°W / 25.6755; -80.1591	506.37 acres (204.9 ha)	Site of the 1825 Cape Florida Light, the oldest standing structure in Miami-Dade County; recognized on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom as an escape point from which Black Seminoles and enslaved people fled to the Bahamas in the early 1820s
Blackwater River State Park		June 14, 1968	Santa Rosa 30.7074°N 86.8756°W / 30.7074; -86.8756	635.82 acres (257.3 ha)	Designated a Registered State Natural Feature in 1980 for illustrating Florida's natural history; contains a state-champion Atlantic white cedar recognized as one of the largest and oldest specimens of its species
Blue Spring State Park		August 14, 1972	Volusia 28.9480°N 81.3411°W / 28.9480; -81.3411	2,659.05 acres (1,076 ha)	Largest spring on the St. Johns River, acquired in 1972 to establish Florida's manatee protection program; the winter refuge supports one of the world's longest-running manatee photo-identification studies, started in 1978
Bulow Creek State Park		May 20, 1981	Flagler Volusia 29.3787°N 81.1155°W / 29.3787; -81.1155	5,698.14 acres (2,306 ha)	Home to the Fairchild Oak, a Southern live oak estimated at 400 to 600 years old with a trunk circumference of about 28 feet (8.5 m); named in 1955 for botanist David Fairchild
Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park		January 12, 1945	Flagler 29.4346°N 81.1427°W / 29.4346; -81.1427	147.97 acres (59.9 ha)	Coquina ruins of the largest antebellum plantation in East Florida, developed by the Bulow family from 1821 and destroyed during the Second Seminole War in 1836; John James Audubon studied local birds here in 1831–1832
Caladesi Island State Park		April 18, 1966	Pinellas 28.0210°N 82.8141°W / 28.0210; -82.8141	2,420.04 acres (979 ha)	Undeveloped barrier island accessible by ferry from Honeymoon Island State Park; ranked the top beach in the United States in 2008 by Dr. Beach
Camp Helen State Park		June 7, 1996	Bay 30.2730°N 85.9923°W / 30.2730; -85.9923	223.33 acres (90.4 ha)	Contains the NRHP-listed Camp Helen Historic District, a former corporate vacation retreat
Cayo Costa State Park		December 21, 1976	Lee 26.6604°N 82.2402°W / 26.6604; -82.2402	2,666.87 acres (1,079 ha)	Undeveloped barrier island accessible only by boat; contains the NRHP-listed Mark Pardo Shellworks, a Caloosahatchee culture shell-works and midden complex described at listing as one of the best preserved archaeological sites in the region
Cedar Key Museum State Park		June 19, 1960	Levy 29.1522°N 83.0490°W / 29.1522; -83.0490	18.63 acres (7.54 ha)	Museum built around the Saint Clair Whitman collection of shells and Native American artifacts; also commemorates naturalist John Muir's 1867 arrival at Cedar Key at the end of his A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve		December 27, 1978	Levy 29.2003°N 83.0302°W / 29.2003; -83.0302	6,784.31 acres (2,746 ha)	Sandy pine flatwoods and scrub protecting habitat for Florida scrub jays and other declining upland species along the Nature Coast
Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park		December 19, 1974	Charlotte Lee 26.7858°N 82.1368°W / 26.7858; -82.1368	45,507.16 acres (18,416 ha)	46,000 acres (190 km2) of islands and shoreline surrounding Charlotte Harbor, protecting the Gasparilla Sound, Cape Haze, Matlacha Pass, and Pine Island Sound aquatic preserves; site 22 on the southern section of the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail
Cockroach Bay Preserve State Park		January 24, 1997	Hillsborough 27.7023°N 82.4928°W / 27.7023; -82.4928	617.89 acres (250.1 ha)	The Little Cockroach Key archaeological site is possibly one of the northernmost places of the Glades culture
Collier–Seminole State Park		March 8, 1944	Collier 25.9756°N 81.6004°W / 25.9756; -81.6004	7,270.8 acres (2,942 ha)	Home to a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark: the Bay City Walking Dredge used to build the Tamiami Trail through the Everglades
Colt Creek State Park		May 31, 2006	Polk 28.2853°N 82.0391°W / 28.2853; -82.0391	5,067.01 acres (2,051 ha)	Part of the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve featuring pine flatwoods, cypress domes, and open pasture
Constitution Convention Museum State Park		May 12, 1922	Gulf 29.7932°N 85.2985°W / 29.7932; -85.2985	13.22 acres (5.35 ha)	Museum on the site of the former town of St. Joseph commemorating Florida's first Constitutional Convention (1838–1839), which drafted the constitution admitting Florida to statehood
Crystal River Archaeological State Park		August 6, 1962	Citrus 28.9079°N 82.6367°W / 28.9079; -82.6367	61.48 acres (24.88 ha)	Preserves the Crystal River Site (8CI1), a pre-Columbian mound complex designated a National Historic Landmark and among the longest continuously occupied ceremonial centers in Florida; the park was Florida's first state archaeological site, established in 1962
Crystal River Preserve State Park		August 20, 1974	Citrus 28.8584°N 82.6489°W / 28.8584; -82.6489	27,718.15 acres (11,217 ha)	Encompasses Crystal River Archaeological State Park and the surrounding tidal marshes, hardwood swamps, and pine flatwoods along the Crystal River estuary; wintering habitat for the West Indian manatee
Curry Hammock State Park		September 10, 1991	Monroe 24.7442°N 80.9890°W / 24.7442; -80.9890	1,055.78 acres (427 ha)	One of the largest uninhabited hardwood hammocks remaining in the Florida Keys; hosts the annual Florida Keys Hawkwatch, monitoring the fall raptor migration through the Keys
Dade Battlefield Historic State Park		September 29, 1921	Sumter 28.6522°N 82.1270°W / 28.6522; -82.1270	120.85 acres (48.9 ha)	Preserves the Second Seminole War battlefield where Seminole and Black Seminole warriors defeated Major Francis L. Dade on December 28, 1835; the annual "Dade Battle Reenactment" is held on the anniversary weekend
Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park		July 26, 1982	Monroe 25.2484°N 80.3177°W / 25.2484; -80.3177	2,601.45 acres (1,053 ha)	Contains one of the largest remaining tracts of West Indian tropical hardwood hammock in the United States, protecting 84 protected animal and plant species including endemics of the upper Florida Keys
De Leon Springs State Park		June 1, 1982	Volusia 29.1410°N 81.3722°W / 29.1410; -81.3722	624.79 acres (252.8 ha)	First-magnitude spring discharging into Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge; the 1832-era Old Spanish Sugar Mill remains, now operated as a pancake restaurant, sit at the head spring
Deer Lake State Park		February 6, 1996	Walton 30.3106°N 86.0651°W / 30.3106; -86.0651	2,009.44 acres (813 ha)	Protects one of Walton County's coastal dune lakes, a globally rare landform found in Florida almost exclusively along the Emerald Coast
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park		September 8, 1970	Collier 26.2815°N 81.8284°W / 26.2815; -81.8284	199.73 acres (80.8 ha)	Barrier island park with a rare hard-bottom reef accessible from shore and one of Southwest Florida's most active loggerhead sea turtle nesting beaches
Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park		December 5, 1973	Alachua 29.7070°N 82.3952°W / 29.7070; -82.3952	67.24 acres (27.21 ha)	A 120-foot (37 m)-deep, 500-foot (150 m)-wide sinkhole designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974; more than a dozen small waterfalls flow into the bowl, whose walls expose fossil-bearing limestone
Don Pedro Island State Park		February 15, 1985	Charlotte 26.8522°N 82.3025°W / 26.8522; -82.3025	253.76 acres (102.7 ha)	Undeveloped barrier island between Palm Island and Little Gasparilla Island accessible only by private boat or ferry, protecting 129 acres (52 ha) of gopher tortoise and shorebird habitat
Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park		April 17, 1963	Franklin 29.7212°N 84.7478°W / 29.7212; -84.7478	2,073.24 acres (839 ha)	9 miles (14 km) of undeveloped Gulf shoreline on the east end of St. George Island, with dunes, pine flatwoods, and one of the most productive loggerhead sea turtle nesting beaches in the Florida Panhandle
Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park		August 23, 1973	Broward 26.0753°N 80.1116°W / 26.0753; -80.1116	344.65 acres (139.5 ha)	Named in 2016 for civil rights activists Von Mizell and Eula Johnson, who led the 1961 Fort Lauderdale wade-ins that desegregated Broward County beaches the following year
Dudley Farm Historic State Park		June 9, 1983	Alachua 29.6599°N 82.5427°W / 29.6599; -82.5427	333.46 acres (134.9 ha)	Preserved working farm operated by three generations of the Dudley family from the mid-19th to mid-20th century; designated a National Historic Landmark in January 2021 as one of the country's most intact examples of a Florida cracker farmstead
Dunns Creek State Park		October 10, 2001	Putnam 29.5462°N 81.5985°W / 29.5462; -81.5985	6,352.5 acres (2,571 ha)	Pine flatwoods and hardwood swamp surrounding Dunns Creek, which links Crescent Lake to the St. Johns River; named for 18th-century Scottish coffee planter John Dunn
Econfina River State Park		January 6, 1988	Taylor 30.0694°N 83.9209°W / 30.0694; -83.9209	4,585.32 acres (1,856 ha)	Undeveloped coastal park where the Econfina River enters the Gulf of Mexico, protecting salt marsh, oak hammock, and pine flatwoods habitat on Florida's Big Bend
Eden Gardens State Park		December 24, 1968	Walton 30.3714°N 86.1226°W / 30.3714; -86.1226	167.72 acres (67.9 ha)	Centered on the Wesley House, a two-story antebellum-style mansion listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, set among camellia and azalea gardens on the shore of Choctawhatchee Bay
Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park		September 17, 1986	Wakulla 30.2418°N 84.3028°W / 30.2418; -84.3028	6,779.96 acres (2,744 ha)	Centered on Wakulla Springs, one of the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world and a National Natural Landmark since 1966; the crystal-clear spring run served as the primary filming location for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and several 1930s-40s Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller
Egmont Key State Park		December 4, 1989	Hillsborough 27.5908°N 82.7614°W / 27.5908; -82.7614	294.31 acres (119.1 ha)	Island at the mouth of Tampa Bay accessible only by boat, containing the 1858 Egmont Key Light and the ruins of Fort Dade, a Spanish-American War-era coastal fortification that once housed 300 residents
Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park		December 30, 1988	Citrus 28.8007°N 82.5841°W / 28.8007; -82.5841	200.85 acres (81.3 ha)	Wildlife park built around a first-magnitude spring; the underwater observatory or "Fish Bowl" lets visitors watch West Indian manatees and thousands of salt- and freshwater fish through submerged windows
Estero Bay Preserve State Park		April 27, 1987	Lee 26.4647°N 81.8917°W / 26.4647; -81.8917	11,382.81 acres (4,606 ha)	Florida's first aquatic preserve (designated 1966), a 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) complex of mangrove islands and estuarine waters along 10 miles (16 km) of Estero Bay
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park		June 14, 1974	Collier 26.0214°N 81.4210°W / 26.0214; -81.4210	80,179.8 acres (32,448 ha)	Contains the Fakahatchee Strand, the largest cypress strand and royal palm swamp in the world, and home to 44 native orchid species (including the ghost orchid) and 14 native bromeliads, the most in North America; its Big Cypress Bend tract was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1966
Falling Waters State Park		March 26, 1962	Washington 30.7284°N 85.5295°W / 30.7284; -85.5295	166.24 acres (67.3 ha)	Contains "Falling Waters Falls," a 73-foot (22 m) drop into a cylindrical sinkhole making it the tallest waterfall in the State of Florida
Fanning Springs State Park		December 2, 1993	Levy 29.5866°N 82.9332°W / 29.5866; -82.9332	196.63 acres (79.6 ha)	Contains a former first-magnitude spring on the Suwannee River whose flow has declined enough that it is now designated a "historical first magnitude"
Faver-Dykes State Park		December 28, 1950	St. Johns 29.6870°N 81.2650°W / 29.6870; -81.2650	6,027.63 acres (2,439 ha)	Borders Pellicer Creek, a designated Florida state canoe trail, and preserves pine flatwoods and salt marsh habitat within the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve watershed
Fernandina Plaza Historic State Park		December 30, 1941	Nassau 30.6887°N 81.4566°W / 30.6887; -81.4566	0.8 acres (0.32 ha)	At 0.80 acres (3,200 m2) the smallest unit in the Florida state park system; preserves the central plaza of Fort San Carlos in Old Town Fernandina, part of the Original Town of Fernandina Historic Site
Florida Caverns State Park		October 11, 1935	Jackson 30.8129°N 85.2340°W / 30.8129; -85.2340	1,449.6 acres (587 ha)	The only Florida state park with air-filled limestone caves open for public tours; the caves, above-ground springs, and adjoining golf course were developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps before the park opened in 1942; the cave system was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1977
Forest Capital Museum State Park		January 11, 1967	Taylor 30.0804°N 83.5691°W / 30.0804; -83.5691	10.18 acres (4.12 ha)	Museum interpreting Florida's slash pine and turpentine industry, adjacent to an 1864 "Cracker Homestead" with reconstructed farm outbuildings
Fort Clinch State Park		September 20, 1935	Nassau 30.6940°N 81.4730°W / 30.6940; -81.4730	2,219.2 acres (898 ha)	Contains Fort Clinch, a 19th-century masonry coastal fortification listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the fort was garrisoned by both Confederate and Union forces during the American Civil War and again during the Spanish-American War
Fort Cooper State Park		December 29, 1970	Citrus 28.8082°N 82.3041°W / 28.8082; -82.3041	708.05 acres (286.5 ha)	Preserves the site of Fort Cooper on Lake Holathlikaha, a stockade built in April 1836 to shelter wounded soldiers under General Winfield Scott during the Second Seminole War; Listed on the NRHP in 1972
Fort George Island Cultural State Park		April 19, 1950	Duval 30.4249°N 81.4306°W / 30.4249; -81.4306	820.64 acres (332.1 ha)	Preserves Fort George Island, a National Historic Landmark district encompassing 5,000 years of human occupation from Timucuan shell mounds through the colonial-era San Juan del Puerto mission to the 1928 Ribault Inn Club, which serves as the visitor center for the adjoining Kingsley Plantation
Fort Mose Historic State Park		October 30, 1989	St. Johns 29.9295°N 81.3226°W / 29.9295; -81.3226	41.35 acres (16.73 ha)	Site of Fort Mose (Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose), established in 1738 as the first legally sanctioned free Black community in what became the United States; a National Historic Landmark
Fort Pierce Inlet State Park		August 10, 1973	St. Lucie 27.4872°N 80.3085°W / 27.4872; -80.3085	956.66 acres (387.1 ha)	Undeveloped beach and coastal hammock on North Hutchinson Island just north of the Fort Pierce Inlet, adjoining the Indian River Lagoon
Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park		October 7, 1976	Monroe 24.5465°N 81.8106°W / 24.5465; -81.8106	55.74 acres (22.56 ha)	Contains Fort Zachary Taylor, an American Civil War-era coastal fortification at the southern tip of Key West designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973
Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park		July 1, 1966	Okaloosa 30.4961°N 86.4264°W / 30.4961; -86.4264	346.65 acres (140.3 ha)	Preserved sand pine scrub around Rocky Bayou that served as a Doolittle Raid training range in early 1942; concrete practice bombs dropped by Lt. Col. James Doolittle's B-25 crews during their preparation for the April 1942 raid on Japan still lie within the park
Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach		October 4, 1954	Flagler 29.4377°N 81.1108°W / 29.4377; -81.1108	133.71 acres (54.1 ha)	Beach and Intracoastal Waterway park named for the Florida cracker folksinger and storyteller Gamble Rogers, who drowned in 1991 attempting to rescue a swimmer off the adjacent shoreline
Gasparilla Island State Park		May 14, 1983	Lee 26.7309°N 82.2612°W / 26.7309; -82.2612	130.1 acres (52.6 ha)	Includes the 1890 Port Boca Grande Lighthouse on the southern tip of Gasparilla Island, with nesting habitat for loggerhead sea turtles and beach-nesting shorebirds
George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier State Park		September 14, 2007	Duval Nassau 30.5183°N 81.4575°W / 30.5183; -81.4575	110.5 acres (44.7 ha)	Former State Road A1A bridge over Nassau Sound now used as one of Florida's longest fishing piers; managed jointly with Amelia Island State Park
Grayton Beach State Park		September 21, 1964	Walton 30.3361°N 86.1578°W / 30.3361; -86.1578	2,186.6 acres (885 ha)	Consistently ranked among the top U.S. beaches by Dr. Beach (Stephen Leatherman); protects Western Lake, one of Walton County's coastal dune lakes, and surrounding scrub and pine flatwoods
Haw Creek Preserve State Park		December 2, 1976	Flagler Putnam Volusia 29.3861°N 81.4230°W / 29.3861; -81.4230	3,061.67 acres (1,239 ha)	Cypress swamp and floodplain along Haw Creek near its outlet at Crescent Lake in the St. Johns River basin; donated by The Nature Conservancy in 1976
Henderson Beach State Park		February 2, 1983	Okaloosa 30.3847°N 86.4425°W / 30.3847; -86.4425	251.46 acres (101.8 ha)	Preserves nearly a mile of undeveloped Emerald Coast beach and dune ecosystem in Destin, within one of Florida's most densely developed shoreline corridors
Highlands Hammock State Park		July 31, 1935	Highlands Hardee 27.4504°N 81.5350°W / 27.4504; -81.5350	9,237.74 acres (3,738 ha)	Opened in 1931 as one of Florida's oldest state parks, predating the state park system by four years; NRHP-listed 2018 for its intact Civilian Conservation Corps resources, with old-growth hardwood hammock recognized by the Old-Growth Forest Network
Hillsborough River State Park		June 10, 1936	Hillsborough 28.1208°N 82.2587°W / 28.1208; -82.2587	3,319.21 acres (1,343 ha)	Contains Fort Foster State Historic Site, a reconstruction of the 1836 blockhouse built during the Second Seminole War to guard the Fort King Road crossing of the Hillsborough River; the fort is one of the few operating reconstructions of a Seminole War-era fortification in Florida
Honeymoon Island State Park		December 23, 1974	Pinellas 28.0751°N 82.8287°W / 28.0751; -82.8287	2,824.52 acres (1,143 ha)	Most-visited state park in Florida; originally a single barrier island with Caladesi Island before the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane cut Hurricane Pass between them
Hontoon Island State Park		May 12, 1967	Volusia Lake 28.9653°N 81.3630°W / 28.9653; -81.3630	1,653.83 acres (669 ha)	Island in the St. Johns River accessible only by boat or park-operated passenger ferry; a replica of a Timucua owl totem discovered at the site stands at the ferry landing
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park		December 31, 1941	Broward 26.1454°N 80.1050°W / 26.1454; -80.1050	162.54 acres (65.8 ha)	Preserves the last significant tract of undeveloped land in Fort Lauderdale between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean; donated to the state in 1949 by Chicago attorney Hugh Taylor Birch
Ichetucknee Springs State Park		January 6, 1970	Columbia Suwannee 29.9756°N 82.7629°W / 29.9756; -82.7629	2,531.97 acres (1,025 ha)	Contains a chain of nine crystalline springs discharging into the Ichetucknee River, collectively designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971 and famous for summer inner-tube floats down the spring-fed river
Ichetucknee Trace		September 7, 2000	Columbia 30.0449°N 82.7232°W / 30.0449; -82.7232	822.29 acres (332.8 ha)	Undeveloped tract along the dry paleodrainage of the Ichetucknee River, acquired under the Florida Forever program to safeguard the springshed of neighboring Ichetucknee Springs State Park; classified by the Florida Park Service as undetermined and open by prior arrangement only
Indian Key Historic State Park		December 28, 1970	Monroe 24.8835°N 80.6775°W / 24.8835; -80.6775	111.33 acres (45.1 ha)	Small island in the Florida Keys accessible only by boat; site of the 19th-century wrecking town of Indian Key, destroyed during the 1840 Seminole raid that killed physician-naturalist Henry Perrine
Indian River Lagoon Preserve State Park		September 29, 2000	Brevard 27.9356°N 80.5022°W / 27.9356; -80.5022	564.01 acres (228.2 ha)	Barrier-island tract on the Indian River Lagoon assembled between 2000 and 2005 under the Indian River Lagoon Blueways program; protects mangrove and coastal hammock habitat within one of North America's most biodiverse estuaries
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park		July 7, 1981	Palm Beach 26.8261°N 80.0428°W / 26.8261; -80.0428	436.39 acres (176.6 ha)	The only state park in Palm Beach County, containing an estuary crossed by a 1,600-foot (490 m) boardwalk and Munyon Island, a former resort island; largely donated by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in the 1970s
John Gorrie Museum State Park		April 15, 1955	Franklin 29.7250°N 84.9856°W / 29.7250; -84.9856	0.96 acres (0.39 ha)	Commemorates John Gorrie, the Apalachicola physician who received the first U.S. patent for mechanical refrigeration in 1851 and whose ice-making machine is regarded as the foundation of modern air conditioning
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park		December 3, 1959	Monroe 25.1803°N 80.3265°W / 25.1803; -80.3265	63,881.38 acres (25,852 ha)	Established in 1963 as the first underwater park in the United States, protecting 70 square nautical miles (240 km2) of the Florida Reef tract off Key Largo
Jonathan Dickinson State Park		June 9, 1947	Martin 27.0086°N 80.1390°W / 27.0086; -80.1390	10,441.68 acres (4,226 ha)	Crossed by the Loxahatchee River, designated in 1985 as Florida's first federally recognized National Wild and Scenic River; also contains the concealed remains of Camp Murphy, a WWII-era U.S. Army radar training station
Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park		June 18, 1926	Manatee 27.5278°N 82.5268°W / 27.5278; -82.5268	33.04 acres (13.37 ha)	Preserves the 1850 Gamble Mansion, the only surviving antebellum plantation house in South Florida and briefly a refuge for Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin as he fled to the Bahamas at the end of the American Civil War; NRHP-listed 1973
Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park		March 28, 1997	Okeechobee Osceola 27.5815°N 81.0679°W / 27.5815; -81.0679	58,119.55 acres (23,520 ha)	Protects the largest remaining tract of Florida dry prairie, an endangered ecosystem shaped by cycles of flooding and fire; designated an International Dark Sky Park by DarkSky International for one of the darkest night skies in the eastern United States
Koreshan State Historic Site		November 2, 1961	Lee 26.4353°N 81.8167°W / 26.4353; -81.8167	196.16 acres (79.4 ha)	Contains the Koreshan Unity Settlement Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, preserving the buildings and imported ornamental plantings of a utopian religious community whose last members deeded the land to the state in 1961
Lafayette Blue Springs State Park		June 1, 2005	Lafayette 30.1487°N 83.2357°W / 30.1487; -83.2357	713.91 acres (288.9 ha)	Contains Lafayette Blue Spring, a first-magnitude spring on the Suwannee River whose main vent is bisected by a natural limestone bridge, forming two turquoise pools
Lake Griffin State Park		October 31, 1946	Lake 28.8618°N 81.8938°W / 28.8618; -81.8938	620.66 acres (251.2 ha)	Contains the state-champion live oak known as the Lake Griffin Oak, estimated at over 400 years old and among the largest of its species in Florida
Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park		May 26, 1966	Leon 30.5011°N 84.3146°W / 30.5011; -84.3146	199.81 acres (80.9 ha)	Preserves six earthen mounds of the Lake Jackson site (8LE1), one of the most important surviving Fort Walton culture political and ceremonial centers, occupied c. 1050-1500 and NRHP-listed in 1972
Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park		November 15, 1995	Highlands 27.2956°N 81.4193°W / 27.2956; -81.4193	845.67 acres (342.2 ha)	Protects a section of the Lake Wales Ridge, one of the oldest and most endemic-rich ecosystems in Florida, providing habitat for the Florida scrub jay and the endangered Highlands scrub hypericum
Lake Kissimmee State Park		January 7, 1970	Polk 27.9407°N 81.3685°W / 27.9407; -81.3685	5,893.23 acres (2,385 ha)	Contains the "1876 Cow Camp," a living-history exhibit reconstructing a Florida cowhunter camp on the shore of Lake Kissimmee during the era when Florida cattlemen drove herds to Punta Rassa for shipment to Cuba
Lake Louisa State Park		August 29, 1973	Lake 28.4470°N 81.7411°W / 28.4470; -81.7411	4,608.07 acres (1,865 ha)	Encompasses six named lakes within the Green Swamp basin, part of the aquifer recharge zone that feeds the headwaters of five major central Florida rivers
Lake Manatee State Park		June 16, 1970	Manatee 27.4784°N 82.3372°W / 27.4784; -82.3372	548.85 acres (222.1 ha)	Over 3 miles (4.8 km) of shoreline on Lake Manatee, a reservoir on the Manatee River that supplies drinking water to Manatee and Sarasota counties
Lake Talquin State Park		December 15, 1970	Leon 30.4244°N 84.5660°W / 30.4244; -84.5660	490.45 acres (198.5 ha)	Sits on Lake Talquin, a reservoir formed in 1927 by the damming of the Ochlockonee River; the sandhill and hardwood-hammock uplands host gopher tortoise and southern flying squirrel populations
Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park		June 20, 1992	Jefferson 30.5179°N 83.9903°W / 30.5179; -83.9903	190.11 acres (76.9 ha)	Contains the Letchworth Mound (8JE337), the tallest surviving Native American ceremonial mound in Florida at approximately 49 feet (15 m) high, likely built by peoples of the Weeden Island culture between about AD 200 and 800
Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park		March 2, 1971	Monroe 24.9034°N 80.6844°W / 24.9034; -80.6844	10,724.24 acres (4,340 ha)	Accessible only by boat, this island preserves one of the largest remaining stands of undisturbed West Indian tropical hardwood hammock in the United States, including its namesake lignum vitae; the 1919 Matheson House is a prominent feature during visitor tours; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1968
Little Manatee River State Park		August 2, 1974	Hillsborough 27.6732°N 82.3707°W / 27.6732; -82.3707	2,499.38 acres (1,011 ha)	Fronts nearly 4 miles (6.4 km) of the Little Manatee River, one of the last undeveloped blackwater rivers in the state and a designated Florida State Canoe Trail
Little Talbot Island State Park		June 5, 1951	Duval 30.4553°N 81.4153°W / 30.4553; -81.4153	1,531.38 acres (620 ha)	One of Florida's few remaining undeveloped barrier islands, with 5 miles (8.0 km) of Atlantic beach, high ocean-front dunes, and coastal maritime forest that shelter nesting loggerhead sea turtles and migratory shorebirds
Long Key State Park		September 21, 1961	Monroe 24.8170°N 80.8083°W / 24.8170; -80.8083	1,001.76 acres (405 ha)	Site of the Long Key Fishing Club, a saltwater fishing resort founded by Henry Flagler in 1906 that hosted Zane Grey as its first president; the resort was destroyed by the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane
Lovers Key State Park		August 18, 1983	Lee 26.3912°N 81.8691°W / 26.3912; -81.8691	1,442.44 acres (584 ha)	A complex of four barrier islands (Lovers Key, Inner Key, Long Key, and Black Island) accessible via a tram from the main parking area; nesting habitat for bald eagles and West Indian manatees
Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park		August 19, 1976	Lake Seminole 28.9040°N 81.3877°W / 28.9040; -81.3877	17,376.26 acres (7,032 ha)	Wildlife corridor between the Ocala National Forest and the Wekiva River basin protecting Florida black bear and Florida sandhill crane habitat; part of a federally designated Wild and Scenic River system
Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site		April 16, 1948	Manatee 27.5659°N 82.5922°W / 27.5659; -82.5922	9.19 acres (3.72 ha)	Preserves the Madira Bickel Mound, a Native American temple mound occupied from the Weeden Island period through the Safety Harbor culture; the first archaeological site designated by the State of Florida
Madison Blue Spring State Park		September 26, 2002	Madison 30.4786°N 83.2452°W / 30.4786; -83.2452	49.73 acres (20.13 ha)	Contains Madison Blue Spring, a first-magnitude spring on the Withlacoochee River that ranked #1 among U.S. swimming holes in a 2007 USA Today reader poll
Manatee Springs State Park		January 6, 1949	Levy 29.4949°N 82.9703°W / 29.4949; -82.9703	2,452.83 acres (993 ha)	Contains Manatee Spring, a first-magnitude spring on the Suwannee River that was visited by William Bartram in 1774 and named for the West Indian manatees that winter in its warm outflow; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park		July 1, 1970	Alachua 29.4809°N 82.1586°W / 29.4809; -82.1586	124.31 acres (50.3 ha)	Preserves the Cross Creek farmhouse where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938); designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006
Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park		January 11, 1935	Clay 29.8369°N 81.9501°W / 29.8369; -81.9501	2,366.87 acres (958 ha)	One of Florida's original eight Civilian Conservation Corps-built state parks, opened in 1939; contains a series of steephead ravines cut by cold springs feeding Gold Head Branch
Mound Key Archaeological State Park		November 2, 1961	Lee 26.4224°N 81.8641°W / 26.4224; -81.8641	127.85 acres (51.7 ha)	Believed to be the site of Calos, the ceremonial capital of the Calusa; the island is composed almost entirely of anthropogenic shell mounds up to 30 feet (9.1 m) high accumulated over roughly 2,000 years
Myakka River State Park		June 23, 1936	Manatee Sarasota 27.2263°N 82.2666°W / 27.2263; -82.2666	37,197.68 acres (15,053 ha)	One of Florida's oldest and largest state parks, opened in 1941, containing a designated state Wild and Scenic River and a canopy walkway that rises to a 74-foot (23 m) tower for a treetop view of the Myakka River floodplain
Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park		March 8, 1950	Leon 30.3006°N 84.1351°W / 30.3006; -84.1351	2,121.37 acres (858 ha)	Site of the March 6, 1865, Battle of Natural Bridge, where a mixed Confederate force of regulars, militia, and cadets from what is now Florida State University repelled a Union advance on Tallahassee. One of the last significant American Civil War battles
Ney Landrum State Park		December 21, 2006	Jefferson Leon 30.3917°N 84.0845°W / 30.3917; -84.0845	2,590.01 acres (1,048 ha)	Newest fully classified addition to the Florida park system, protecting sandhill and pine flatwoods habitat; named in 2024 for Ney Landrum, director of the Florida Park Service from 1972 to 1989
North Peninsula State Park		May 16, 1984	Volusia 29.4086°N 81.0967°W / 29.4086; -81.0967	556.07 acres (225.0 ha)	Preserves nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) of undeveloped Atlantic coast between Ormond Beach and Flagler Beach on a barrier peninsula, with high dunes, coastal scrub, and salt marsh habitats
Ochlockonee River State Park		May 14, 1970	Wakulla 30.0034°N 84.4862°W / 30.0034; -84.4862	546.45 acres (221.1 ha)	Confluence park where the Ochlockonee River meets the Dead Lakes; supports one of the few remaining Florida populations of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker in an old-growth longleaf pine forest
Okeechobee Battlefield Historic State Park		June 30, 2006	Okeechobee 27.2130°N 80.7849°W / 27.2130; -80.7849	145.32 acres (58.8 ha)	Site of the December 25, 1837, Battle of Lake Okeechobee, the largest engagement of the Second Seminole War and one of the largest Indian Wars battles in U.S. history; NRHP-listed in 1966
O'Leno State Park		September 4, 1934	Alachua Columbia 29.9136°N 82.5778°W / 29.9136; -82.5778	2,372.41 acres (960 ha)	One of Florida's original eight Civilian Conservation Corps-built state parks (1935–1938), where the Santa Fe River disappears into a River Sink and flows underground for about 3 miles (4.8 km) before re-emerging at neighboring River Rise Preserve State Park
Oleta River State Park		June 9, 1980	Miami-Dade 25.9165°N 80.1387°W / 25.9165; -80.1387	1,032.78 acres (418 ha)	Largest urban state park in Florida, encompassing 1,043 acres (422 ha) of mangrove forest and Biscayne Bay shoreline within metropolitan Miami; contains a nationally recognized off-road mountain-bike trail network
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park		August 6, 1909	Baker 30.2185°N 82.3825°W / 30.2185; -82.3825	617.05 acres (249.7 ha)	Preserves the site of the February 20, 1864, Battle of Olustee, the largest American Civil War engagement in Florida; designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990
Orman House Historic State Park		March 29, 2001	Franklin 29.7311°N 84.9910°W / 29.7311; -84.9910	10.27 acres (4.16 ha)	Preserves the 1838 Orman House, an antebellum river-cotton merchant's residence on Apalachicola's high bluff; NRHP-listed in 1972 as one of the few surviving pre-Civil War homes on Florida's Panhandle coast
Oscar Scherer State Park		September 12, 1956	Sarasota 27.1807°N 82.4602°W / 27.1807; -82.4602	1,396.32 acres (565 ha)	Protects one of the largest remaining populations of the threatened Florida scrub jay on the coastal ridge scrub of southwest Florida
Paynes Creek Historic State Park		September 16, 1974	Hardee 27.6198°N 81.8103°W / 27.6198; -81.8103	398.57 acres (161.3 ha)	Marks the site of the 1849 Kennedy-Darling trading post attack and the subsequent construction of Fort Chokonikla, a Third Seminole War-era outpost abandoned within a year because of endemic malaria
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park		September 29, 1970	Alachua 29.5772°N 82.3076°W / 29.5772; -82.3076	21,561.71 acres (8,726 ha)	A 21,000-acre (8,500 ha) wet prairie basin designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974, hosting the state's only reintroduced free-ranging American bison and Cracker horse herds
Perdido Key State Park		June 2, 1978	Escambia 30.2920°N 87.4688°W / 30.2920; -87.4688	418.9 acres (169.5 ha)	Protects one of the last undeveloped sections of Perdido Key on the Alabama-Florida boundary; nesting habitat for the federally endangered Perdido Key beach mouse
Ponce de Leon Springs State Park		September 4, 1970	Holmes Walton 30.7088°N 85.9274°W / 30.7088; -85.9274	380.84 acres (154.1 ha)	Contains Ponce de Leon Spring, a second-magnitude spring discharging 14 million US gallons (53,000,000 litres) per day of 68 °F (20 °C) water into Sandy Creek
Price's Scrub State Park		November 19, 2002	Marion 29.4672°N 82.2841°W / 29.4672; -82.2841	1,132.94 acres (458 ha)	Protects a section of sand pine scrub and longleaf pine sandhill habitat along the Alachua-Marion county line, providing a corridor habitat between neighboring conservation lands for Florida black bear and gopher tortoise
Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park		August 3, 1994	Duval 30.4718°N 81.5124°W / 30.4718; -81.5124	4,316.75 acres (1,747 ha)	Protects 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of pine flatwoods and salt marsh at the head of Pumpkin Hill Creek, part of the greater Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve landscape and habitat for bald eagles and wood storks
Rainbow Springs State Park		October 25, 1990	Marion 29.0819°N 82.4268°W / 29.0819; -82.4268	1,584.43 acres (641 ha)	Contains Rainbow Springs, a first-magnitude spring discharging into the Rainbow River; former 1930s-1970s roadside attraction with rebuilt waterfalls and gardens now managed as a state park; the spring was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971
Ravine Gardens State Park		January 1, 1970	Putnam 29.6328°N 81.6414°W / 29.6328; -81.6414	152.93 acres (61.9 ha)	A Works Progress Administration project completed in 1933 on a steephead ravine near Palatka, combining a public garden of thousands of azaleas with a wildflower amphitheater and pedestrian bridges; NRHP-listed in 1994
River Rise Preserve State Park		September 4, 1974	Alachua Columbia 29.8711°N 82.6020°W / 29.8711; -82.6020	4,004.43 acres (1,621 ha)	Marks the point where the Santa Fe River re-surfaces from its 3-mile (4.8 km) underground course through O'Leno State Park, one of Florida's most extensive sinking-river systems
Rock Springs Run State Reserve		March 10, 1983	Orange Lake Seminole 28.7722°N 81.4535°W / 28.7722; -81.4535	14,164.77 acres (5,732 ha)	Protects the wildlife corridor between the Wekiva River and the Ocala National Forest; supports one of Central Florida's few remaining Florida black bear populations and the source spring of Rock Springs Run
Ruth B. Kirby Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park		October 6, 2017	Gilchrist 29.8276°N 82.6812°W / 29.8276; -82.6812	402.42 acres (162.9 ha)	Six springs (including the second-magnitude Gilchrist Blue Spring) discharging into the Santa Fe River; operated privately for decades before the state acquired it for $5.2 million and opened it as Florida's 175th state park on November 1, 2017
San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park		June 9, 1983	Alachua 29.7408°N 82.4500°W / 29.7408; -82.4500	7,362.56 acres (2,980 ha)	Preserves one of Florida's largest remaining old-growth hardwood hammocks and the endangered Bat Cave sinkhole, home to a colony of southeastern myotis bats; the hammock was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974
San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park		March 9, 1964	Wakulla 30.1521°N 84.2103°W / 30.1521; -84.2103	15.35 acres (6.21 ha)	Site of successive fortifications at the confluence of the Wakulla and St. Marks Rivers built by Spain (1679), Britain (1763), the U.S. (1839), and the Confederacy (1861); NRHP-listed in 1966
San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park		March 28, 1989	Monroe 24.8634°N 80.6799°W / 24.8634; -80.6799	643.62 acres (260.5 ha)	Protects the wreck of the San Pedro, a 287-ton Dutch-built member of the 1733 Spanish treasure fleet lost to a hurricane; one of the first underwater state archaeological preserves in the United States
Savannas Preserve State Park		April 25, 1977	Martin St. Lucie 27.3162°N 80.2868°W / 27.3162; -80.2868	7,005.52 acres (2,835 ha)	Protects the largest remaining stretch of freshwater marsh basin on Florida's southeast coast, extending 10 miles (16 km) from Fort Pierce to Jensen Beach on the coastal ridge inland of the Indian River Lagoon
Seabranch Preserve State Park		October 22, 1991	Martin 27.1353°N 80.1683°W / 27.1353; -80.1683	921.49 acres (372.9 ha)	Protects the last extensive tract of coastal sand scrub in Martin County between the Intracoastal Waterway and US-1; habitat for the threatened Florida scrub jay and gopher tortoise
Sebastian Inlet State Park		February 14, 1969	Brevard Indian River 27.8602°N 80.4522°W / 27.8602; -80.4522	972.4 acres (393.5 ha)	Located at the Sebastian Inlet, the only navigable pass to the Atlantic between Cape Canaveral and Fort Pierce; includes the McLarty Treasure Museum, interpreting the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet whose survivors camped on the site
Shoal River Headwaters State Park		October 7, 2025	Walton 30.7729°N 86.2293°W / 30.7729; -86.2293	2,480.42 acres (1,004 ha)	Florida's newest state park, opened January 23, 2026; protects the headwaters of the Shoal River, a designated Outstanding Florida Water tributary of the Yellow River
Silver Springs State Park		December 11, 1985	Marion 29.2034°N 82.0217°W / 29.2034; -82.0217	4,739.92 acres (1,918 ha)	Contains Silver Springs, one of the largest artesian spring systems in the world; the glass-bottom boats introduced here in the 1870s pioneered underwater tourism, and the springs served as a filming location for early Tarzan films and the Sea Hunt television series; the springs were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971
Skyway Fishing Pier State Park		December 20, 1994	Hillsborough Manatee Pinellas 27.6215°N 82.6561°W / 27.6215; -82.6561	16.46 acres (6.66 ha)	Repurposes the surviving approaches of the original 1954 Sunshine Skyway Bridge (partially destroyed in a 1980 ship collision) as the world's longest fishing pier, spanning Tampa Bay
South Fork State Park		October 26, 1988	Manatee 27.6162°N 82.2515°W / 27.6162; -82.2515	1,129.44 acres (457 ha)	A newly designated park protecting 470 acres (190 ha) of pine flatwoods, hardwood swamp, and river frontage along the South Fork of the St. Lucie River
St. Andrews State Park		August 23, 1946	Bay 30.1186°N 85.7203°W / 30.1186; -85.7203	1,167.08 acres (472 ha)	Preserves 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of Gulf beach along St. Andrew Bay near Panama City Beach; the Gator Lake pier and the reconstructed "Cracker" turpentine still recall the site's early-20th-century industrial past
St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park		April 9, 1965	Martin 27.1342°N 80.1402°W / 27.1342; -80.1402	4,848.8 acres (1,962 ha)	Accessible only by boat, this barrier-island preserve on Jupiter Island protects one of Florida's few remaining hard-bottom nearshore reef communities and a mature stand of coastal maritime hammock
St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park		April 4, 1995	Brevard Indian River 27.8210°N 80.5618°W / 27.8210; -80.5618	21,629.35 acres (8,753 ha)	Protects 22,000 acres (8,900 ha) of pine flatwoods along the Sebastian River, home to the largest reintroduced population of the endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow and one of Florida's few managed red-cockaded woodpecker recovery areas
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park		July 1, 1979	Hamilton 30.3319°N 82.7788°W / 30.3319; -82.7788	903.9 acres (365.8 ha)	Commemorates songwriter Stephen Foster, whose 1851 ballad "Old Folks at Home" (Florida's state song since 1935) is set on the adjacent Suwannee River; hosts the annual Florida Folk Festival each Memorial Day weekend
Stump Pass Beach State Park		May 10, 1971	Charlotte 26.9053°N 82.3448°W / 26.9053; -82.3448	232.13 acres (93.9 ha)	Occupies the southern tip of Manasota Key, where longshore drift continually reshapes the shoreline at Stump Pass, providing nesting beach for loggerhead sea turtles and habitat for the Anastasia Island beach mouse
Suwannee River State Park		June 23, 1936	Hamilton Madison Suwannee 30.4018°N 83.1608°W / 30.4018; -83.1608	2,019.01 acres (817 ha)	Located at the confluence of the Suwannee and Withlacoochee rivers; contains Confederate earthworks built to defend a railroad bridge during the American Civil War and a well-preserved antebellum cemetery
T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park		February 4, 1964	Gulf 29.8238°N 85.4061°W / 29.8238; -85.4061	2,790.91 acres (1,129 ha)	Occupies the tip of a slender 20-mile (32 km) barrier peninsula between St. Joseph Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; sustained heavy damage from Hurricane Michael in 2018 and remains a national dark-sky-quality location
Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park		April 13, 1998	Escambia 30.3605°N 87.3913°W / 30.3605; -87.3913	4,549.15 acres (1,841 ha)	Protects one of the largest remaining stands of Atlantic white-top pitcher plant (Sarracenia leucophylla) in the world within wet pitcher-plant bogs along Tarkiln Bayou; four of the six species of carnivorous plants native to the Panhandle occur here
Terra Ceia Preserve State Park		August 24, 1998	Manatee 27.5978°N 82.5621°W / 27.5978; -82.5621	1,948.02 acres (788 ha)	Restores 2,000 acres (810 ha) of former aquaculture and agricultural land back to salt marsh and mangrove shoreline along Tampa Bay, one of the largest such coastal-restoration projects in the state
Three Rivers State Park		March 1, 1955	Jackson 30.7393°N 84.9240°W / 30.7393; -84.9240	658.78 acres (266.6 ha)	Fronts Lake Seminole, an impoundment where the Chattahoochee, Flint, and Apalachicola Rivers meet; the park spans upland hardwood-hammock slopes unusual in the Florida coastal plain
Tomoka State Park		October 30, 1945	Volusia 29.3194°N 81.0830°W / 29.3194; -81.0830	1,628 acres (659 ha)	Occupies the peninsula between the Tomoka and Halifax Rivers that was once the site of the Timucuan village of Nocoroco visited by the naturalist John Bartram in 1766; the 46-foot (14 m) "Chief Tomokie" statue commemorates a local Timucuan legend
Topsail Hill Preserve State Park		May 29, 1992	Walton 30.3676°N 86.2903°W / 30.3676; -86.2903	1,647.96 acres (667 ha)	Home to the largest surviving natural population of the federally endangered Choctawhatchee beach mouse and the donor site for every reintroduction of the subspecies to other Florida Panhandle state parks since the 1980s; also preserves three coastal dune lakes and 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of undeveloped Emerald Coast shoreline
Torreya State Park		April 22, 1935	Gadsden Liberty 30.5490°N 84.9215°W / 30.5490; -84.9215	14,869.17 acres (6,017 ha)	Contains the largest surviving stands of the critically endangered Florida torreya, an endemic conifer found almost exclusively on the steep bluffs of the Apalachicola River; also preserves the antebellum Gregory House and Confederate river-defense earthworks; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1976
Troy Spring State Park		June 12, 1995	Lafayette 30.0029°N 82.9971°W / 30.0029; -82.9971	83.57 acres (33.82 ha)	Contains Troy Spring, a first-magnitude spring on the Suwannee River whose 70-foot (21 m) vent holds the wreck of the Confederate steamboat Madison, scuttled here in 1863 to prevent Union capture
Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park		December 10, 1971	Levy 29.1489°N 82.8315°W / 29.1489; -82.8315	34,387.61 acres (13,916 ha)	Accessible only by boat, this 31,000-acre (13,000 ha) preserve protects one of the last undeveloped stretches of the Big Bend Coast, including salt marsh, tidal creeks, and remnant hammock "islands" of the pre-sea-level-rise landscape; designated a National Natural Landmark in 1976
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park		June 10, 1964	Flagler 29.6342°N 81.2057°W / 29.6342; -81.2057	419.55 acres (169.8 ha)	Combines a coquina-boulder Atlantic shoreline (a rare exposure of the Anastasia Formation outside Anastasia State Park) with formal ornamental gardens developed on the site of a mid-19th-century plantation
Weeki Wachee Springs State Park		November 15, 2008	Hernando 28.5200°N 82.5843°W / 28.5200; -82.5843	927.81 acres (375.5 ha)	Home of the Weeki Wachee mermaid show, a live underwater theater performance running continuously since 1947 and now the only place in the United States to see mermaids perform
Wekiwa Springs State Park		April 30, 1969	Orange Lake Seminole 28.7479°N 81.4798°W / 28.7479; -81.4798	9,175.47 acres (3,713 ha)	Contains the second-magnitude Wekiwa Springs, source of the federally designated Wild and Scenic Wekiva River on the northern edge of the Orlando metropolitan area
Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park		July 1, 2000	Pasco 28.3152°N 82.7205°W / 28.3152; -82.7205	3,377.9 acres (1,367 ha)	Named for a salt spring whose vertical throat descends over 300 feet (91 m), making it one of the deepest known submerged sinkholes in Florida; protects estuarine coastline along the western Pasco County shore
Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park		June 11, 1986	Suwannee 30.1316°N 83.1364°W / 30.1316; -83.1364	761 acres (308.0 ha)	Contains the Peacock Springs Cave System, one of the longest underwater cave systems in the continental United States and a globally significant site for cave diving; renamed in 2011 for underwater cinematographer Wes Skiles
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park		January 17, 1986	Monroe 24.9571°N 80.5951°W / 24.9571; -80.5951	320.38 acres (129.7 ha)	Preserves the exposed fossil-coral quarry face of the Key Largo Limestone cut by Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad crews between 1907 and 1912.
Wingate Creek State Park		October 26, 1988	Manatee 27.4465°N 82.1431°W / 27.4465; -82.1431	614.22 acres (248.6 ha)	Protects a section of hardwood swamp along Wingate Creek in the headwaters of the Manatee River, acquired to buffer public drinking water sources; open to hiking, biking, and equestrian use by permit
Ybor City Museum State Park		August 17, 1983	Hillsborough 27.9619°N 82.4387°W / 27.9619; -82.4387	0.96 acres (0.39 ha)	Interprets the founding by Vicente Martinez-Ybor in 1885 of Ybor City as a Cuban cigar-manufacturing enclave; the museum occupies the former Ferlita Bakery and includes preserved cigar-worker "casitas"
Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park		September 12, 1950	Duval 30.3996°N 81.5562°W / 30.3996; -81.5562	1.74 acres (0.70 ha)	Preserves earthworks fortified by Confederate and later Union forces during the American Civil War to control access up the St. Johns River toward Jacksonville
Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park		June 12, 2000	Santa Rosa 30.5010°N 87.0661°W / 30.5010; -87.0661	1,041 acres (421 ha)	Protects one of the largest remaining stands of wet prairie and pitcher-plant bog in the Florida Panhandle at the head of the Yellow River delta
Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park		October 3, 1955	Citrus 28.7837°N 82.6076°W / 28.7837; -82.6076	4.6 acres (1.86 ha)	Preserves the ruins of a mid-19th-century steam-powered sugar mill on the Yulee plantation, one of the few surviving examples of antebellum industrial architecture in Florida; NRHP-listed in 1970

State trails

Under the Florida Park Service's 176 units, 11 units are trails and greenways. They are listed separately here because they are measured by length instead of area.

Trail name	Image	Acquired	County and location	Length	Notable feature
Blackwater Heritage State Trail		November 4, 1993	Santa Rosa 30.6903°N 87.0258°W / 30.6903; -87.0258	8.1 miles (13.0 km)	Paved rail-trail on the former Florida & Alabama Railroad grade connecting Milton to Whiting Field, with a spur across the Blackwater River for equestrian use
Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail		May 18, 1994	Monroe 24.8711°N 81.0697°W / 24.8711; -81.0697	106 miles (170.6 km)	Paved rail-trail along the Overseas Highway corridor incorporating original bridges of Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad (1912–1935), including Long Key Viaduct and the Old Bahia Honda Bridge
Gainesville-to-Hawthorne State Trail		December 21, 1988	Alachua 29.5954°N 82.1751°W / 29.5954; -82.1751	16 miles (25.7 km)	Rail-trail traversing Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park between Gainesville and Hawthorne on the former Florida East Coast right-of-way; consistently ranked among Florida's top biking and birding trails
General James A. Van Fleet State Trail		December 12, 1990	Lake Polk Sumter 28.3954°N 81.8981°W / 28.3954; -81.8981	29.2 miles (47.0 km)	Straight, level rail-trail traversing the Green Swamp Wilderness Area; named for U.S. Army General James A. Van Fleet, commander of the Eighth Army during the Korean War
Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway State Recreation and Conservation Area		July 26, 1993	Citrus Levy Marion Putnam 29.1974°N 82.1810°W / 29.1974; -82.1810	110 miles (177.0 km)	A 110-mile (180 km) linear park along the corridor of the abandoned Cross Florida Barge Canal, defeated in 1971 by an environmental campaign led by Marjorie Harris Carr, for whom it was renamed in 1998
Nature Coast State Trail		December 18, 1996	Dixie Gilchrist Levy 29.6023°N 82.9132°W / 29.6023; -82.9132	32 miles (51.5 km)	Paved rail-trail originating from a hub in Trenton, crossing the Suwannee River on a converted 1907 railroad trestle; connects the towns of Chiefland, Fanning Springs, and Cross City
Palatka-to-Lake Butler State Trail		February 26, 2001	Bradford Clay Putnam Union 29.8056°N 82.0046°W / 29.8056; -82.0046	47 miles (75.6 km)	Rail-trail under phased development on the former Georgia Southern and Florida Railway corridor, planned to connect Palatka to Lake Butler and to link with the Palatka-to-St. Augustine State Trail
Palatka-to-St. Augustine State Trail		April 10, 2007	Putnam St. Johns 29.7370°N 81.4938°W / 29.7370; -81.4938	19 miles (30.6 km)	Paved rail-trail on the former Florida East Coast Railway corridor between Palatka and St. Augustine; component of the St. Johns River-to-Sea Loop regional trail system
Suwannee River Wilderness State Trail		June 17, 2005	Dixie Hamilton Lafayette Suwannee 30.2328°N 83.0553°W / 30.2328; -83.0553	170 miles (273.6 km)	Paddling trail on the Suwannee River between White Springs and the Gulf of Mexico, made up of primitive river camps and access points spaced roughly a day's paddle apart
Tallahassee–St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail		August 18, 1992	Leon Wakulla 30.2576°N 84.2371°W / 30.2576; -84.2371	16 miles (25.7 km)	Paved rail-trail on the route of Florida's first railroad (1837), a mule-drawn line built to carry cotton from Tallahassee to the port at St. Marks; NRHP-listed as the Tallahassee-St. Marks Railroad Historic District
Withlacoochee State Trail		December 21, 1989	Citrus Hernando Pasco 28.7192°N 82.2967°W / 28.7192; -82.2967	47 miles (75.6 km)	Longest paved trail in the Florida park system at 47 miles (76 km), running from Trilby to Citrus Springs on the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; part of the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail

Parks system classification summary

Florida state park units by classification, as of July 1, 2026

Classification	Units	Percent
State Park	57	32.2%
State Recreation Area	34	19.2%
State Preserve	28	15.8%
Historic Site	21	11.9%
State Trail	10	5.6%
State Museum	5	2.8%
Archaeological Site	5	2.8%
Ornamental Garden	4	2.3%
State Reserve	2	1.1%
Botanical Site	2	1.1%
Geological Site	2	1.1%
Fishing Pier	2	1.1%
Cultural Site	1	0.6%
State Greenway	1	0.6%
Folk Culture Center	1	0.6%
Wildlife Park	1	0.6%
Undetermined	1	0.6%
Total	177	100%

References

External links

• Official state park service website