Hart Springs Park offers a wheelchair-friendly, 0.5-mile boardwalk through bald cypress trees along the Suwannee River.Trails through thick xeric hammock lead to some open areas good for Eastern Meadowlark and Northern Bobwhite. A variety of camping and lodging options are available. For paddlers, this park is a stop on the Gilchrist Blueway Trail and the Suwannee River Wilderness Trail.
Otter Springs is a second-magnitude spring with a daily flow of 10 million gallons; its 73° F waters feed into the nearby Suwannee River. A canoe launch and rental canoes are available at the head of the 0.9-mile spring run. The park has more than 5 miles of well-marked, well-maintained, multi-use trails from which you can explore a variety of habitats such as bottomland and floodplain forest, swamp, upland mixed forest, pine flatwoods and sandhills. Golf carts are allowed on the trails.
Hart Springs Park offers a wheelchair-friendly, 0.5-mile boardwalk through bald cypress trees along the Suwannee River.Trails through thick xeric hammock lead to some open areas good for Eastern Meadowlark and Northern Bobwhite. A variety of camping and lodging options are available. For paddlers, this park is a stop on the Gilchrist Blueway Trail and the Suwannee River Wilderness Trail.
Otter Springs is a second-magnitude spring with a daily flow of 10 million gallons; its 73° F waters feed into the nearby Suwannee River. A canoe launch and rental canoes are available at the head of the 0.9-mile spring run. The park has more than 5 miles of well-marked, well-maintained, multi-use trails from which you can explore a variety of habitats such as bottomland and floodplain forest, swamp, upland mixed forest, pine flatwoods and sandhills. Golf carts are allowed on the trails.
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Russell Office Park
1875 Orange Ave. East
Tallahassee, FL 32311