St. Marys River in Baker County, Florida

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Baker County attraction

St. Marys River

Baker County · North Florida & First Coast

A 126-mile blackwater river rising in the Okefenokee Swamp that forms much of the Florida and Georgia line, including Baker County's northern edge.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

The river starts as a small stream off Trail Ridge, works its way through the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, and comes out near Baxter and Moniac on the northern edge of Baker County. From there it runs south, then east, then north, then southeast again, a course so indirect that the horseshoe bend is a local landmark in its own right, and reaches the Atlantic between Fernandina Beach and St. Marys, Georgia, 126 miles from where it began. For most of that distance it is the state line, and it carries the southernmost point in Georgia. The water is blackwater, stained the color of strong tea by tannins leached out of swamp vegetation, running over white sand bars that show up bright against it. That combination makes it one of the better paddling rivers in the southeast, with sand bars to camp on and bream, bass and catfish to be caught. The Timucua called it Thlathlothlaguphka. Jean Ribault renamed it the Seine in 1562, and that did not last

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