The park's name comes from a shipwrecked Quaker merchant who was captured by natives off Jupiter with his family in 1696.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Jonathan Dickinson State Park will conduct the prescribed burn on Wednesday, May 14 and Thursday, May 15, if weather permits.

Saturday, people gathered at Johnathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound on Saturday, for a "Love Fest" event as organizers say state parks across Florida are being threatened by developers.

HOBE SOUND, Fla. (CBS12) — Residents of Hobe Sound may see smoke in the sky on Tuesday and Wednesday due to a prescribed burn that is supposed to happen. According to officials at the Florida ...

Jonathan Dickinson State Park is home to a wide variety of habitats. [ Courtesy of Florida State Parks ] Newly obtained records show the survey work ended May 31, a couple of weeks before Nicklaus ...

Jonathan Dickinson State Park's timeline begins with the native Ais, Jaega and Jobe Indian tribes who originally inhabited the area, but it was a storied shipwreck that would jumpstart its written ...

Jonathan Dickinson State Park's timeline begins with the native Ais, Jaega and Jobe Indian tribes who originally inhabited the area, but it was a storied shipwreck that would jumpstart its written ...

Jonathan Dickinson State Park's timeline begins with the native Ais, Jaega and Jobe Indian tribes who originally inhabited the area, but it was a storied shipwreck that would jumpstart its written ...

The same rationale — that 70 years ago Jonathan Dickinson State Park was a military base — was used in 2011, when a bill that proposed golf in the same park.

When Florida dropped plans to raze and remove the popular Hobe Mountain observation tower at the Jonathan Dickinson State Park as part of a plan to build golf courses in state parks, it shined a ...