Mound Key Archaeological State Park, located in Estero Bay near the mouth of the Estero River in Florida, USA, spans 125 acres, with 113 acres managed by the state park system.
Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park, spanning nearly 4,000 acres along Florida's Gulf Coast near Port Richey in Pasco County, protects vital coastal estuaries with mangroves, tidal creeks, salt marshes, and about four miles of Gulf shoreline.
Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida, opened in 1972 in a repurposed water treatment plant and operates as a nonprofit focused on the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine animals that are injured or unable to survive in the wild.
Amelia Island State Park covers over 200 acres at the southern tip of Amelia Island near Fernandina Beach in Florida, USA, preserving pristine beaches, salt marshes, coastal maritime forests, and dunes along the Atlantic coast.
Econfina River State Park covers 3,377 acres along Florida's northern Gulf Coast at the mouth of the Econfina River in Lamont, featuring pine flatwoods, oak-palm forests, salt marshes, and 49 hammock islands that shelter diverse wildlife, birds, and commercial fisheries in the Big Bend region.
Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando, Florida, opened on October 1, 1971, as the first theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort, designed by Walt Disney and his team as a larger, East Coast version of Disneyland.
Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach covers 145 acres nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway along A1A in Flagler County, Florida, named for folk singer Gamble Rogers who drowned in 1991 heroically attempting to rescue a swimmer from heavy surf.
Lake Louisa State Park spans 4,372 acres south of Clermont in central Florida's Green Swamp region, featuring diverse landscapes of rolling hills, pine flatwoods, cypress swamps, and six lakes including the large Lake Louisa, Dixie Lake, and Hammond Lake that connect via the Palatlakaha River.
Crystal River Preserve State Park covers over 27,500 acres along Florida's Gulf Coast from Crystal River to Homosassa, preserving untouched salt marshes, tidal creeks, mangrove islands, hardwood forests, coastal scrub, and pine flatwoods that evoke the coastline from 500 years ago.
Yellow Bluff Fort Historic State Park, a compact 1.3-acre site in Jacksonville, Florida, near the mouth of the St. Johns River, preserves remnants of a Civil War-era Confederate encampment built in 1862 to protect vital supply lines to the city with earthen trenches, pits, and artillery positions.
Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park is one of Florida's oldest state parks, established in 1935 through a land donation by Martin J. Mike Roess and developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, covering nearly 2,400 acres of rolling sandhills, marshes, ravines, lakes, and scrub midway between Jacksonville and Gainesville.
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is South Florida's flagship gaming resort on 87 acres along U.S. Highway 441 in Hollywood, Florida, owned by the Seminole Tribe and featuring a $1.5 billion expansion completed in 2019 with three hotel towers: the iconic 638-room Guitar Hotel, 168-room Oasis Tower with swim-up suites, and 465-room Hard Rock Hotel, totaling 1,271 luxury rooms.
Perdido Key State Park, a 247-acre barrier island park 15 miles southwest of Pensacola in Florida's panhandle, features Florida's westernmost public beach with wide white quartz sands, rolling sea oat-covered dunes, and pristine Gulf waters ideal for swimming, sunbathing, surf fishing, and beachcombing.
Paynes Creek Historic State Park, located just southeast of Bowling Green in central Florida along Paynes Creek and the Peace River, preserves sites from the mid-19th century Seminole Wars era, including the Kennedy-Darling Trading Post attacked in 1849 and nearby Fort Chokonikla, the first in a chain of frontier outposts amid settler-Seminole tensions.
Avalon State Park, located on North Hutchinson Island near Fort Pierce in Florida, USA, covers over 650 acres of pristine undeveloped beachfront along the Atlantic Ocean, stretching to the Indian River Lagoon.
Flagler Dog Track & Entertainment was a historic greyhound racing venue in Miami, Florida, at NW 37th Avenue and 7th Street, originally opened in the 1930s as West Flagler Kennel Club and later evolving into a mixed-use entertainment center.
Fort George Island Cultural State Park spans 581 acres on Fort George Island near Jacksonville in Duval County, Florida, USA, preserving over 6,000 years of layered human history from prehistoric Native American shell rings—the world's largest and most complex—to Timucua missions like San Juan del Puerto, a 1736 British fort defending Georgia's flank, slave-era plantations including nearby Kingsley Plantation, and the 1920s Ribault Club era of elite winter resorts amid live oaks, loblolly pines, palmettos, salt marshes, and maritime hammocks.
