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FLORIDA · HOMOSASSA SPRINGS · THE WILDLIFE PARK The state’s recreation inventory lists no designated swimming area at Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, and no canoe, kayak or tube launch either. What it counts instead is 3,000 feet of boardwalk and 2 observation platforms. This is a wildlife park built around a spring, … Read more
FLORIDA · RAINBOW SPRINGS · THE SPRING RUN You come to Rainbow Springs to get in the water, and almost everybody does it one of two ways: standing waist deep in one of the park’s designated swimming areas, or lying in a tube and letting the Rainbow River carry you past cypress knees at walking … Read more
WEEKI WACHEE · HERNANDO COUNTY · THE SPRING RUN Two things pull people to Weeki Wachee: performers in monofins working underwater behind theater glass, and a river clear enough that the sand grains on the bottom read one by one from a tube. The spring feeds both. Water leaves the vent, fills the swim basin, … Read more
WAKULLA SPRING · EDWARD BALL WAKULLA SPRINGS STATE PARK · NORTH FLORIDA Nearly everyone who drives to Wakulla Spring wants the same thing, which is to get in. A U.S. Geological Survey gauge sits on the spring, station 02327000, and on September 11, 2026 it read 70.3 °F (21.3 °C). That is the temperature of … Read more
FLORIDA · ICHETUCKNEE SPRINGS · THE TUBING RUN The U.S. Geological Survey gauge at Ichetucknee Springs, station 02322685, read 23 cubic feet per second leaving the vent on September 11, 2026. Water pushed out of the ground at that rate gets replaced faster than it can cloud, and the result is the thing people drive … Read more
SILVER SPRINGS · FLORIDA · THE STATE PARK FILE The glass-bottom boats are why most people drive here, and the reason they work sits in a gauge reading: 264 cubic feet per second leaving the vent, measured by the U.S. Geological Survey at station 02239500 on September 11, 2026. Water swapped out that fast has … Read more
