Faver-Dykes State Park

Noted for its pristine condition, this tranquil park borders Pellicer Creek as it winds along Florida's east coast highways down to the Matanzas River. Pellicer Creek is a popular site for birding with more than one hundred bird species seen ...

Fanning Springs State Park

Located on the Suwannee River, this inviting source of cool, clear water has attracted people for thousands of years. Fanning Springs now produces less than 65 million gallons of water daily, making it a second magnitude spring. Historically, Fanning Spring ...

Falling Waters State Park

Huge trees and fern-covered sinkholes line Sink Hole Trail, the boardwalk that leads visitors to Florida's highest waterfall. Falling Waters Sink is a 100-foot deep, 20-foot wide cylindrical pit into which flows a small stream that drops 73 feet to ...

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

Welcome to the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, "the Amazon of North America." The Fakahatchee Strand is a linear swamp forest, approximately twenty miles long by five miles wide and oriented from north to south. It has been sculpted by ...

Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Visitors can see West Indian manatees every day of the year from the park's underwater observatory in the main spring. The park showcases native Florida wildlife, including manatees, black bears, bobcats, white-tailed deer, American alligators, American crocodiles, and river otters. ...

Econfina River State Park

Nestled along the northern Gulf Coast, the nearly 4,400-acre park protects a mosaic of diverse landscapes. The Econfina River meanders like a dark ribbon through pine flatwoods, oaks and palm forests to broad expanses of salt marsh dotted with pine ...

Ferdinand Plaza

Plaza Ferdinand VII, located on Palafox and South Jefferson Streets, dates back to Pensacola's Spanish and Britsh periods during the 18th and 19th centuries. Pensacola's final colonial settlement, founded in 1752, was geographically centered between Plaza Ferdinand and Seville square ...

Fort Caroline National Memorial

Three thousand miles from the European courts, a struggle for control of Florida and the Indies played out near the mouth of what is today the St. Johns River.

Spain and France both established settlements and fortifications in an effort ...

Fort George

In 1763, as a result of the Seven Year's War, Spain ceded the colony of Florida to England in exchange for Cuba. The city of Pensacola became the capital of British West Florida, and because of its strategic and economic ...

Museum of Industry

Located at the North East corner of Zaragoza and Tarragona Streets, the site of the Museum of Industry building has long served the industries and people of Pensacola.

During the late 18th century, British colonists built a large three story ...