Green Springs Park: Florida’s Green Sulfur Spring Guide
Category: Florida Springs
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Quick Facts Overview Green Springs Park is one of those Florida springs you visit for the scenery rather than the swimming. This free 31-acre Volusia County park surrounds a rare green sulfur spring, with shaded nature trails, spring overlooks, picnic areas, and a playground. You can’t swim or fish here, and the sulfur smell is…
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Quick Facts Overview Gemini Springs Park is a 210-acre Volusia County park built around two spring-fed pools that once served as a popular local swimming hole before closing to swimmers years ago. What’s left is a pleasant, quiet park for walking, biking, and picnicking. The park contains oak hammock trails and the historic remnants of…
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Silver Springs is the largest spring formation in Florida, and its 30+ springs discharge as much as 500 million gallons of water a day. It was Florida’s first tourist attraction, dating back to the 1870s, and you can still feel the old-Florida charm: glass-bottom boats, an old-school milkshake bar, and wild monkeys swinging through the…
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Quick Facts Overview Alexander Springs is one of only 27 first-magnitude springs in Florida, and it is one of the most family-friendly near Orlando. The pool is very large at around 300 feet across, with a naturally gentle slope instead of the steep drop-offs you find at springs like Troy Spring. The water stays a…
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Troy Spring is one of North Florida’s most distinctive springs. It is a 70-foot deep, first-magnitude spring basin with a sunken Civil War steamboat and short limestone swim-through. It is one of my favorites for freediving. We visited midday on in July of 2026 as the fourth stop on a spring-hopping day that started with…
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While Troy and Little River are crowded, Ruth Springs still feels like a local secret. There’s no gift shop or gate, and the crowds are usually minimal. All that’s here is a short walk down to the Suwannee River and a swim in some of the quietest swimming water on this stretch of the river.…
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Little River Springs is one of the most photogenic stops on the Suwannee River, where crystal-clear spring water meets the dark, tannin-stained river. It is a beautiful place to wade, take photos, let the kids explore, and watch two very different bodies of water collide. It is not, however, one of Florida’s best traditional swimming…
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If you only do one tubing trip in Florida, make it the Ichetucknee. This state park is a National Natural Landmark fed by 8 major springs that combine to form six miles of clear, cool Ichetucknee River water. It is two parks in one: the South Entrance for tubing, and the North Entrance for swimming,…
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From November 15 through March 31, Three Sisters Springs is one of the best places in Florida to watch hundreds of manatees escape the cold Gulf, and the boardwalk is how most people see them. The rest of the year, it is one of the clearest swimming springs in the state, but only if you…
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From November through March, manatees crowd into the warm spring water of Kings Bay, and the boardwalk at Hunter Springs Park is one of the easiest and cheapest places in downtown Crystal River to look for them: $5 parking, no ticket, no tour. The rest of the year, this is the perfect Crystal River cooldown…
