Florida's National Parks

Explore the Park Sites of the Sunshine State

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A diverse landscape if ever there was one, the Sunshine State can take visitors from a 19th-century tropical fortress to hiking through 6,000-year-old wetland in a matter of hours while spanning centuries.

Florida’s 11 national park sites host nearly 11 million visitors each year. Adventurers may windsurf Convoy Point at Biscayne National Park, bask in the emerald waters of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, and explore the world’s most famous swamp in Everglades National Park.

Historic sites are a plenty amongst Florida parkland as well. Don’t miss the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, the Kennedy Space Center at the Canaveral National Seashore, the former stomping grounds of Hernando De Soto at De Soto National Memorial, and Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park.