May 18, 2024
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State Parks on the Chopping Block
The Department of Environmental Protection offered this list of 53 state parks as potential closure targets to help Florida close its $3.6 billion budget gap.
- Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park, Haines City
- Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park, Stuart
- Big Shoals State Park, White Springs
- Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park, Flagler Beach
- Camp Helen State Park, Panama City Beach
- Cedar Key State Museum State Park, Cedar Key
- Colt Creek State Park, Lakeland
- Constitution Convention Museum State Park, Port St. Joe
- Crystal River Archaeological State Park, Crystal River
- Dade Battlefield Historic State Park, Bushnell
- Dagny Johsnon Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park, Key Largo
- Deer Lake State Park, Santa Rosa Beach
- Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park, Gainesville
- Don Pedro Island State Park, Boca Grande
- Dudley Farm Historic State Park, Newberry
- Dunn’s Creek State Park, Pomona
- Estero Bay Preserve State Park, Estero
- Fort Cooper State Park, Inverness
- Fort George Island Cultural State Park, Jacksonville
- Fort Mose Historic State Park, St. Augustine
- John Gorrie Museum State Park, Apalachicola
- Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, Ellentn
- Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park, Tallahassee
- Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park, Sebring
- Lake Talquin State Park, Tallahassee
- Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park, Tallahassee
- Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park, Islamorada
- Madison Blue Spring State Park, Lee
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Cross Creek
- Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park, Woodville
- Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, Olustee
- Orman House Historic State Park, Apalachicola
- Paynes Creek Historic State Park, Bowling Green
- Peacock Springs State Park, Luraville
- Perdido Key State Park, Pensacola
- Ponce de Leon Springs State Park, Ponce de Leon
- Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park, Jacksonville
- Rock Springs Run State Reserve, Sorrento
- San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park, Alachua
- San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park, St. Marks
- Savannas Preserve State Park, Jensen Beach
- St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park, Stuart
- St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, Fellsmere
- Suwannee River Wilderness Trail/Nature and Heritage Tourism Center, White Springs
- Terra Ceia Preserve State Park, Palmetto
- The Barnacle Historic State Park, Coconut Grove
- Troy Spring State Park, Branford
- Wacasassa Bay Preserve State Park, Cedar Key
- Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Palm Coast
- Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park, Port Richey
- Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park, Islamorada
- Ybor City Museum State Park, Tampa
- Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park, Holt
