Like most of Florida’s beautiful state parks, Ichetucknee Springs State Park welcomes visitors throughout the year and is open from 8 a.m. to sunset, daily. Count on about 2.5 hours to get here ...

2. Ichetucknee Springs State Park “If you’ve been in Florida for any length of time, this is probably the spring your parents told you about.

Before attendance was regulated, Ichetucknee Springs State Park admitted more than 5,000 tubers per day. With more visitors came more connections, but also more cars, trash and harm to the ecosystem.

Ribbons of eelgrass trail from the mouth of a manatee in Ichetucknee Springs State Park. Polluted runoff from urban development and farms into many waterways has killed the aquatic grasses that ...

HOMOSASSA SPRINGS, Fla. -- Horror stories abound about Florida's natural springs, some of which have turned from cool bastions of idyllic beauty into victims of such severe ecological damage that ...