Exploring Florida...Recommendations wanted
My wife and I are retiring at the end of this year and our first trip out will be end of February beginning or March time frame in 2023. We plan on leisurely heading down to Key West and back from the...
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agesilaus wrote:We enjoyed tent camping at Paynes Prairie Preserve/State Park. Didn't see the buffalo but did see the Spanish wild horses.
We have never seen either as many times as we've been to that park. The Rangers keep them hidden away in a remote section of the park for no obvious reason. It's one of our local parks and the rangers there have a well deserved reputation of being jerks in a number of ways.
Use insect repellent if you go there as they have a tick problem in that one park. Spray your sock tops and bottom of your long pants, or legs if you are in shorts.
There is a lot to do in the Gainesville area, a small zoo, the Florida state Museum which has a butterfly zoo, several nice city parks--Sweetwater being one, a Bat preserve, a Bat House which you can see the Bats depart at sunset. That's on the University of Florida campus at Lake Alice. Micanopy which is a tourist town is just south of Payne's Prairie.
re: your comment on the rangers... might be due to the current park manager who used to be the director of all the state parks, but was a jerk and got demoted.
