Three Sisters Springs in Citrus County, Florida

Photograph: Three sisters springs near crystal river national wildlife refuge.jpg by Ramos Keith, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain · Restored from the credited Wikimedia Commons file, normalized to the consistent attraction-card frame and converted to WebP by 1stFlorida.com. Portrait originals retain their complete composition over a softly blurred extension of the same photograph.

Citrus County attraction

Three Sisters Springs

Citrus County · Gulf Coast

A spring-fed wetland reached by trolley from the visitor center, where manatees gather when the Gulf drops below 68 degrees.

QUESTIONS THAT NAME THIS PLACE

ABOUT THIS PLACE

Three Sisters Springs is at 917 Three Sisters Springs Trail in Crystal River, and getting there takes a small amount of planning. There is no public parking on site unless you hold a disabled parking permit. Visitors park at the visitor center and ride a trolley in, and the trolley fare is part of the daily admission. Holders of a federal lands pass get money off the ticket. The site opens daily from 8:30 in the morning to 4:30, with the last entry at 3:30, and both the trolley and the boardwalk are built to be accessible. The whole boardwalk is being replaced a third at a time: the work began in July 2026, stops for the winter manatee season and starts again in April 2027, and about two thirds of the boardwalk stays open while it goes on. From the boardwalk people look down into clear spring water and out over wetland where more than 100 bird species have been recorded. Manatees are the reason most people come, but they are not always there. The animals move in when the Gulf of Mexico drops below 68 degrees, so the likely days are cold ones between November 15 and March 31, especially on a high tide after a cold front. Swimming is allowed, but only for people arriving by water; there is no way into the spring from the land

GETTING THERE

Get Directions ↗Official place website ↗

MOVING TO CITRUS COUNTY?Fourteen services. One business each.

Attorneys, movers, insurance, title companies, roofers and nine more — one listed business per service in Citrus County.

See local help in Citrus County →

Keep comparing

Return to the Things to Do choices in Citrus County.

Back to Citrus County