Sightseeing
Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. Her cracker style home and farm, where she wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling and other wonderful works of fiction, has been restored and is preserved as it was when she lived here. Be sure to visit The Yearling restaurant after your visit.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
County Road 325Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. Her cracker style home and farm, where she wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling and other wonderful works of fiction, has been restored and is preserved as it was when she lived here. Be sure to visit The Yearling restaurant after your visit.
Ravine Gardens State Park has two ravines up to 120 feet deep with steep banks at 45 degree angles. Unlike common gullies, trenches or sinkholes caused by temporary flooding, the steephead ravines are a permanent feature with a spring-fed creek that never dries up, called Whitewater Branch. In 1933, the ravines were transformed into a dramatic garden by the federal Works Progress Administration. Some of the original landscaping still exists as formal gardens and a unique system of trails. A 1.8-mile paved road winds around the ravines, offering visitors dramatic views.
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Ravine Gardens State Park
1600 Twigg StRavine Gardens State Park has two ravines up to 120 feet deep with steep banks at 45 degree angles. Unlike common gullies, trenches or sinkholes caused by temporary flooding, the steephead ravines are a permanent feature with a spring-fed creek that never dries up, called Whitewater Branch. In 1933, the ravines were transformed into a dramatic garden by the federal Works Progress Administration. Some of the original landscaping still exists as formal gardens and a unique system of trails. A 1.8-mile paved road winds around the ravines, offering visitors dramatic views.
The park is located along the banks of the scenic Santa Fe River, a tributary of the Suwannee River, and features sinkholes, hardwood hammocks, river swamps and sandhills. Visitors can enjoy a day of hiking or biking on the park’s shaded trails.
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O'Leno State Park & River Rise
410 SE Oleno Park RdThe park is located along the banks of the scenic Santa Fe River, a tributary of the Suwannee River, and features sinkholes, hardwood hammocks, river swamps and sandhills. Visitors can enjoy a day of hiking or biking on the park’s shaded trails.
This park demonstrates the evolution of Florida farming from the 1850s to the mid-1940s through three generations of the Dudley family. An authentic working farm, the homestead consists of 18 buildings, including the family farmhouse with original furnishings, an 1880s kitchen outbuilding, general store, post office and a functional cane syrup complex. Park staff in period clothing perform chores, raise crops and tend to livestock. The farm features seasonal cane grindings, corn shuckings and heritage varieties of livestock and plants. Deer, wild turkeys, gopher tortoises and bluebirds may be seen in the fields. The park also has a visitor center, picnic area and nature trail.
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Dudley Farm Historic State Park
18730 W Newberry RdThis park demonstrates the evolution of Florida farming from the 1850s to the mid-1940s through three generations of the Dudley family. An authentic working farm, the homestead consists of 18 buildings, including the family farmhouse with original furnishings, an 1880s kitchen outbuilding, general store, post office and a functional cane syrup complex. Park staff in period clothing perform chores, raise crops and tend to livestock. The farm features seasonal cane grindings, corn shuckings and heritage varieties of livestock and plants. Deer, wild turkeys, gopher tortoises and bluebirds may be seen in the fields. The park also has a visitor center, picnic area and nature trail.
The Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail (Rails to Trails) is located a short 5 miles to the start of this 16 mile trail which stretches 16 miles through the Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park and other local and state conservation lands. On this historic rail-bed turned greenway you will pass by native plants and wildlife, diverse scenery and backyard Florida culture.
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Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail
Gainesville-Hawthorne State TrailThe Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail (Rails to Trails) is located a short 5 miles to the start of this 16 mile trail which stretches 16 miles through the Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park and other local and state conservation lands. On this historic rail-bed turned greenway you will pass by native plants and wildlife, diverse scenery and backyard Florida culture.
Paynes Prairie Preserve is a Florida State Park, encompassing a 21,000-acre savanna in Micanopy. Paynes Prairie is unique in many ways. Nowhere else in Florida can visitors experience wild-roaming bison and horses. Nearly 300 species of birds also frequent the park along with alligators, deer and many other animals. The park has eight trails, including the 16-mile paved Gainesville-Hawthorne one above.
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Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park
100 Savannah BlvdPaynes Prairie Preserve is a Florida State Park, encompassing a 21,000-acre savanna in Micanopy. Paynes Prairie is unique in many ways. Nowhere else in Florida can visitors experience wild-roaming bison and horses. Nearly 300 species of birds also frequent the park along with alligators, deer and many other animals. The park has eight trails, including the 16-mile paved Gainesville-Hawthorne one above.
Devils Millhopper is a natural landmark that has attracted curious visitors since the 1880’s. In the midst of north Florida's sandy terrain and pine forests, a bowl-shaped cavity 120 feet deep leads down to a miniature rain forest. Small streams trickle down the steep slopes of the limestone sinkhole, disappearing through crevices in the ground. Lush vegetation thrives in the shade of the walls even in dry summers.
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Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park
4732 Millhopper RoadDevils Millhopper is a natural landmark that has attracted curious visitors since the 1880’s. In the midst of north Florida's sandy terrain and pine forests, a bowl-shaped cavity 120 feet deep leads down to a miniature rain forest. Small streams trickle down the steep slopes of the limestone sinkhole, disappearing through crevices in the ground. Lush vegetation thrives in the shade of the walls even in dry summers.
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