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Highlands Hammock State Park is a 9,000-acre (3,640 ha) park 4 miles (6 km) west of Sebring in Highlands County, Florida, off U.S. 27. The park opened in 1931, four years before the Florida state park system was created.
Hammock Dunes Bridge Dunes Community Development District Hammock Dunes Parkway Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway: 2,598.2 791.9 $3.00 or $.50 with pass Cash only/Private pass available (Toll eastbound only) Mid-Bay Bridge: Mid-Bay Bridge Authority SR 293: Choctawhatchee Bay: 19,008.0 5,793.6 $4.00 Cash or SunPass: Midpoint Memorial Bridge: Lee County
San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park in Alachua County, Florida. It is located northwest of Gainesville, Florida on CR 232 (Millhopper Road), just south of the town of Alachua .
State Road 589 (SR 589), also known as the Veterans Expressway and Suncoast Parkway, is a controlled-access toll road near the Florida Gulf Coast. [3] [4] Maintained and operated by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, this 68-mile (109 km) transportation corridor extends from State Road 60 in Tampa, north to State Road 44 near Lecanto.
The most prominent feature of the state park is the large sinkhole formed by the dissolution of limestone by acidic groundwater over long periods of time. [1] Devil's Millhopper is unique in Florida in terms of its scale; over 100 feet (30 m) of rock layers are exposed.
Originally located near West Olive (Port Sheldon) on Lake Michigan (1916–1927) it re-located to Duck Lake, near Whitehall, Michigan, in 1927 the property was acquired by the Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s and is now part of Duck Lake State Park. Gerald R. Ford was a camp staff member there in 1927–28. Camp Silver Lake
Gulf Hammock is generally flat and low lying, rising to no more than 25 feet (7.6 m) above sea level, [2] except for some relict sand dunes that occur inland from Cedar Key. [7] It sits on a geological formation where limestone lies very near or at the surface, and the water table is also very near the surface. [ 8 ]
Saugatuck Dunes State Park is a public recreation area covering 1,000 acres (400 ha) on the shore of Lake Michigan between Saugatuck and Holland in Allegan County, Michigan. [ 2 ] History