Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park

Wakulla County · Panhandle & Emerald Coast

6,781 acres around one of the largest and deepest freshwater springs in the world, at 550 Wakulla Park Drive.

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The spring opening lies 180 feet down, and the average flow is about 400,000 gallons a minute, with peaks measured at 860,000. That is a river coming out of a hole in the ground. Paleo Indians camped at this spring twelve thousand years ago, and the basin has given up the bones of mastodons, giant sloths, giant armadillos and camels. Glass bottom boats used to run here, but the water clarity has fallen and they no longer operate. The regular riverboat tour runs all year and is the way to see the river: alligators on the banks, wading birds, turtles stacked on logs, white-tailed deer and wild turkey in the woods, and manatees that come up in winter. Swimming and snorkeling are allowed in the roped basin, with a diving platform out in the middle. It was named a National Natural Landmark in October 1966. The park is twenty minutes south of Tallahassee, which makes it the closest thing that city has to a swimming hole, and it fills up on hot weekends

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