Apalachicola National Forest in Liberty County, Florida

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Liberty County attraction

Apalachicola National Forest

Liberty County · Panhandle & Emerald Coast

The largest national forest in Florida, six hundred and thirty-five thousand acres across Liberty, Wakulla, Leon and Franklin counties.

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ABOUT THIS PLACE

Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed it on May 13, 1936, and the ranger district offices are at Bristol and Crawfordville. Inside it are interior swamps, longleaf pine flatwoods, titi thickets and part of the Woodville Karst Plain, drained by the Sopchoppy, the Ochlockonee and the Apalachicola. The forest is burned deliberately and often, because open longleaf grassland is what the red-cockaded woodpecker needs to survive, and this is one of the strongholds left for that bird. Black bears, wild turkeys and alligators live here too. Two wilderness areas are protected inside it, Bradwell Bay and Mud Swamp New River; Bradwell Bay runs to twenty-four thousand six hundred acres of titi swamp and standing water, with a hundred acres of old growth slash pine and black gum, and the Florida National Scenic Trail crosses it, usually by wading. Seventy-eight miles of that trail run through the forest. Camel Lake, Wright Lake and Porter Lake have campgrounds. Pitcher plants bloom near Sumatra in March and April

GETTING THERE

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