Hidden Spots
Hontoon Island — The State Park You Reach via Free Passenger Ferry on the St Johns
Forty minutes from Orlando there's a state park you can't drive to. A free passenger ferry takes you across the St Johns River to 1,650 acres of bottomland hardwood, primitive cabins, and a 1955 archaeological dig that uncovered a six-foot Native American owl totem. Most Floridians don't know it exists.