Silver Springs State Park, located in north-central Florida near Ocala, protects one of America's largest artesian springs and the five-mile Silver River, drawing visitors since the 1870s with its crystal-clear waters.
Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offers popular airboat tours and rides through the unique Everglades wetlands, providing an exciting way to explore Florida's River of Grass.
Torreya State Park spans 13,735 acres along Florida's Apalachicola River in the Panhandle north of Bristol, renowned for its dramatic high bluffs rising 150 to 300 feet above the water, steep ravines, swamps, and pine flatwoods that evoke Appalachian terrain more than typical Florida landscapes.
Caladesi Island State Park, a pristine 2,420-acre barrier island off Dunedin in Florida's Gulf Coast across from Clearwater Beach, is accessible only by ferry from Honeymoon Island State Park, private boat, or foot from shifting sands, offering untouched white-sand beaches ranked among America's best by Dr. Beach and Conde Nast Traveler.
Colt Creek State Park spans over 5,000 acres in Central Florida's Green Swamp Wilderness Area, 16 miles north of Lakeland off State Road 471, featuring pine flatwoods, cypress domes, hardwood hammocks, open pastures, three lakes, and winding creeks that support bald eagles, alligators, gopher tortoises, Sherman's fox squirrels, deer, otters, and diverse birds.
Seabranch Preserve State Park, a nearly 1,000-acre protected area south of Stuart along Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, preserves rare coastal habitats shaped by ancient oceans, including sand pine scrub, scrubby flatwoods, baygall swamps, and mangroves.
Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, is located at 5550 NW 40th Street in Coconut Creek, Florida, near the intersection of U.S. 441 and Sample Road, about 15 miles north of Fort Lauderdale.
Calder Casino is a gaming venue in Miami Gardens, Florida, on the Miami-Dade/Broward county line near Hard Rock Stadium, originally established as Calder Race Course in 1971 for thoroughbred horse racing.
San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park in St. Marks, Florida, preserves the ruins of a Spanish colonial fort at the confluence of the St. Marks and Wakulla Rivers, first established in 1679 after explorer Pánfilo de Narváez's arrival in 1528, with later occupations by British, American, and Confederate forces including a brief stint by Andrew Jackson.
Fort Pickens is a historic pentagonal military fort located on Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola, Florida, built between 1829 and 1834 as part of the U.S.
Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino is a premier entertainment destination in Hallandale Beach, Florida, near Miami at 901 S Federal Highway, renowned for thoroughbred horse racing since opening in 1939.
Curry Hammock State Park spans over 1,100 acres across Crawl Key and Grassy Key in the Florida Keys near Marathon, protecting the largest undeveloped land between Key Largo and Big Pine Key with rare rockland tropical hammocks, mangrove swamps, tidal rock barrens, and the nation's biggest stand of Keys thatch palms.
Stump Pass Beach State Park covers nearly 1,000 acres at the southern tip of Manasota Key in Englewood, Florida, protecting pristine Gulf beaches, mangrove-lined Lemon Bay shores, coastal dunes, and small islands like Peterson and Whidden Keys.
Three Rivers State Park covers over 600 acres along Lake Seminole in Jackson County, Florida, near Sneads on the Georgia border, where the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers converge to form the Apalachicola River.
Ruth B. Kirby Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park, located in Gilchrist County near High Springs along the Santa Fe River, spans about 250 acres and features six crystal-clear natural springs, including the prominent second-magnitude Gilchrist Blue Spring that flows 44 million gallons daily through a shallow run teeming with sunfish, bass, catfish, turtles, and invertebrates.
Disney's Hollywood Studios, part of the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, opened in 1989 and is themed around the world of film, television, music, and theater, paying tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park occupies nearly 2,000 acres at the eastern end of St. George Island in Florida's Panhandle near Eastpoint, fronting Apalachicola Bay with nine miles of pristine Gulf Coast beaches ranked among America's best.
