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This Florida State Park Has a Turquoise Spring With Gin-clear, 72-degree Waters — and It's Full of Manatees at This Time of Year

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CampPhoto/Getty Images Natural spring in Blue Spring State Park. The first time I visited Blue Spring State Park, I was searching ...
Orlando Sentinel

Blue Spring State Park: New tracked chair aids accessibility outdoors

Blue Spring State Park is known as a wintertime haven for manatees and a summertime oasis for visitors who seek out its azure-blue waters to swim and cool down. While the park’s boardwalk, restrooms, ...
Travel + Leisure

This Central Florida State Park Has Glassy, Turquoise Waters That Are 72 Degrees All Year

Rainbow Springs State Park’s sapphire-blue waters well up from the earth with startling clarity, a living force that has drawn people here for thousands of years—from the Timucua who once gathered ...
Forbes

932 Manatees Showed Up At A Florida Park: Here’s Why

Manatees find refuge in the warm waters of Blue Spring located at Blue Spring State Park in 2015. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) How many manatees does it take to ...
Orlando Sentinel

Blue Spring: Longtime manatee researcher knows hundreds of sea cows by name

“There’s Lily,” said Wayne Hartley, gesturing underneath the water’s surface within Blue Spring run from atop his signature red canoe that displays the label, “manatee research.” In the 80 years he’s ...