Edward Ball Wakulla Springs Park – Crawfordville, Florida

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Home of the world’s deepest and largest freshwater springs, Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park is located just twenty minutes south of Tallahassee, FL, offering the panhandle region a quick natural springs escape. The cooler mineral waters provide swimming, along with a lodge on-site offering hotel-style accommodations. This state park is named after two Floridian …

Ginnie Springs Outdoors – High Springs, Florida

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Ginnie Springs Outdoors is a lot of things: a campground, a haven for cave divers, and a group of seven warm springs that have some of the best clarity in all of the United States. Jacques Costeau himself said the natural springs had, “visibility forever.” Located just southwest of Jacksonville, Ginnie Springs Outdoors is easy …

Blue Spring Park – Orange City, Florida

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Located in sunny Orange City, less than an hour north of Orlando, is the natural warm spring in Blue Spring State Park. The spring stays a comfortable 72 degrees Fahrenheit year-round and has a ton of amenities for visitors. Perhaps the plethora of things to do is why the park regularly reaches maximum capacity both …

Fanning Springs Park – by Gainesville, Florida

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In sunny northern Florida, a historic spring is open to swimming, snorkeling, and paddle boating. It’s called Fanning Springs, and its iconic blue water is worth a visit, an hour west of Gainesville. History Fanning Springs was first used by early arrivers in Florida some 14,000 years ago. These paleo-people lived off the mineral-rich water …

Wekiwa Springs Park – Apopka, Florida

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A wooded oasis thirty minutes north of Orlando, Wekiwa Springs State Park features a freshwater spring swimming pond year-round. There’s a campground on-site for car campers and RVs, plus primitive hike-to camping sites for those looking for privacy and a backpacking experience, The ”fountain of youth,’ a priceless treasure we’ve all heard about and probably …

Weeki Wachee Springs Park – Spring Hill, Florida

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Just north of Tampa and Clearwater, Florida, is where you can find the swimming holes and natural cavern system in Weeki Wachee Springs State Park. They are open year-round with sections for swimming, fishing and kayaking. It seems unimaginable there could be a place, a natural spring that is always a balmy 74 degrees, where …

Armour’s Hotel & Spa – Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee

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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Armour’s Hotel & Spa is the only venue still offering mineral baths in a bathing house behind the main building. Located in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, Armour’s was first built in 1924, though it then went by the name Count’s Hotel. Armour’s Hotel and Spa While there …