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Stalactites and stalagmites inside the limestone caves at Florida Caverns State Park
Hidden Spots

Florida Caverns — The Only Public Caves in Florida's 175 State Parks

Florida has 175 state parks. Exactly one of them lets you walk underground through a real limestone cave with stalactites, rimstone dams, and a ranger pointing at flowstone. It's tucked off I-10 in Marianna and almost no one outside the Panhandle has heard of it.
Aucilla River flowing under a low bridge in Jefferson County, Florida, dark cypress-stained water bordered by hardwood forest
Outdoor Sports

Florida Trail — Aucilla Sinks Section: Hiking the River That Keeps Disappearing

Four miles of Florida National Scenic Trail through Jefferson County where the Aucilla River dives into limestone, runs underground, surfaces in a gin-clear sink pool, and vanishes again — thirty-plus times. The strangest single-day hike east of the Mississippi, and most of the year you'll have it to yourself.