Madison Blue Spring State Park in Madison County, Florida

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Madison County attraction

Madison Blue Spring State Park

Madison County · North Florida & First Coast

A first-magnitude spring at 8300 Northeast State Road 6, between Lee and Jasper, pouring out of a sinkhole into the Withlacoochee River.

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The basin is about eighty-two feet across and twenty-five feet deep, and a run of roughly a hundred feet carries the water down to the river. That single spring supplies close to a quarter of the Withlacoochee's flow, which gives some idea of the volume: a first-magnitude spring moves at least two thousand eight hundred liters every second. The water holds at seventy-two degrees the year round and is clear enough to give the blue color the place is named for. Stairs go down into the basin for swimmers, the run is used for tubing, and the river beside it is open for paddling. Underneath, cave divers have surveyed well over twenty-six thousand feet of passage, and solo diving is not allowed here because of the difficulty. Three pavilions sit in a wooded picnic clearing reached by a path around the rim. In-water activities have been suspended at times while storm damage is repaired, so check before driving out. Open eight until sundown, charged per vehicle, and the lot fills early on summer weekends

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