A clear freshwater spring located in Central Florida offers year-round swimming, shaded trails, and wildlife surrounded by ...

SEARCHING FOR THE BEST SWIMMING LAKES IN FLORIDA? You’ve come to the perfect place. We’ve spent months traveling Florida and ...

Florida has some of the best beaches in the United States, but the Sunshine State has a lot more to offer than just sand and surf. The region also holds a whole host of ecological wonders that many ...

The Florida springs kind of fell into the background of my mind after a freshman year trip to Poe Springs. That is, until I ...

Spring break is right around the corner and summer is right behind it, which means more people swimming, tubing, wakeboarding and skiing in Florida lakes — lakes that more than one million alligators ...

Gainesville offers a variety of outdoor activities at local springs and nature parks. Activities include swimming, hiking, paddling, camping, and wildlife viewing. Several locations allow leashed dogs ...

Seen from the air, a Florida freshwater spring is a bit of liquid heaven, luring humans and wildlife to enjoy its aquamarine cool. With at least 1,000 of them — more than any other state — the springs ...

Christopher Meindl remembers going on family trips as a child to Ocala, where they’d visit Juniper Springs. “It’s a fabulous looking place,” Meindl, who is associate professor of geography at the ...

Crystal River, in the town of the same name on the west-central coast of the US state of Florida, is dubbed the ‘Manatee ...

“Behold … a vast circular expanse before you, the waters of which are so extremely clear as to be absolutely diaphanous or transparent as the ether.” Many of ...