Florida's diverse state parks

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  John Pennekamp State Park in Key Largo. PETER ANDREW BOSCH / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Bison at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park near Gainesville. FLORIDA DEPTARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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  Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida. MARTHA SHERIDAN / DALLAS MORNING NEWS/MCT

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  Re-enactment of a battle of the Second Seminole War at Dade Battlefield State Historic Park in Bushnell. CHRISTIAN FUCHS / THE DAILY COMMERCIAL

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  Bahia Honda State Park in the lower Florida Keys. TIM CHAPMAN / MCT

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  Suwannee River State Park, near Live Oak in north Florida. VISIT FLORIDA

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  Cape Florida Lighthouse at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. MARICE COHN BAND / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Boardwalk trail at Highlands Hammock State Park. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

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  Blackwater River State Park, near Destin. LISA THATCHER KRESL / DALLAS MORNING NEWS/MCT

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  The Carillon Tower at Stephen Foster Folk Culture State Park in north Florida.

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  Florida Caverns State Park near Marianna in northern Florida. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

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  Tubing on the Ichetucknee River in Ichetucknee State Park in Fort White. VERA JORDAN / FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

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  Fort Clinch State Park in Fernandina Beach. VISIT FLORIDA

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  St. George Island State Park near Apalachicola in the Florida Panhandle. WILLIAM KRONHOLM / AP

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  Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park in Tallahassee. VISIT FLORIDA

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  Machinery used to mine limestone at the Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park in Islamorada. BOB KRIST / FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU

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  Myakka River State Park in Sarasota.

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  Ghost orchid in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve in Collier County. TIM CHAPMAN / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Caladesi Island State Park, a barrier island along the Gulf of Mexico, in Dunedin. CRAIG LITTEN / AP

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  Turtle release at John Lloyd State Park in Dania Beach. JOE RIMKUS JR. / MIAMI HERALD STAFF

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  Oleta River State Park FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

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  Re-enactment of the Battle of Olustee at Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park. VISIT FLORIDA

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  A manatees comes to the surface for air at Blue Spring State Park in Orange City. RED HUBER / MBR