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Florida State Parks
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The Florida State Parks encompass the majority of the lands that fall under the authority of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. There are over 150 such entities, including nature reserves, recreation areas, and historic sites, which can be found in every corner of the state. New park lands are added from time to time, as landowners make gifts of property to the state, and when municipalities choose to turn over control of their historical sites to the state.
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The Florida State Parks encompass the majority of the lands that fall under the authority of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. There are over 150 such entities, including nature reserves, recreation areas, and historic sites, which can be found in every corner of the state. New park lands are added from time to time, as landowners make gifts of property to the state, and when municipalities choose to turn over control of their historical sites to the state. The state park system is divided into five administrative districts.
The parks and other entities are serviced by a statewide system of park rangers. The state park system also hosts an AmeriCorps chapter, called AmeriCorps Florida State Parks.
Several of the state parks were formerly private tourist attractions which were bought by the state of Florida to preserve their natural environment. These parks include the Silver River State Park, Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, Rainbow Springs State Park and Weeki Wachee Springs.
Common Complaints
There are two common complaints that residents have about Florida state parks. The Parks systems is ignoring those complaints. They are:
- They close before a half an hour before sunset and open well after sunrise. Given that it gets dark around 5:30 in the winter and the lack of public access to water in many of the communities of Florida, this makes it virtually illegal to some of the main reasons why the people moved to Florida in the first place:
- Watch a sunrise or sunset
- Fish for the state's most popular game fish, snook (right at unset, before sunrise and an hour after sunset are the best times to fish for snook as they are mostly nocturnal feeders).
- They charge admission.
- Some residents feel that if the state is to charge admission it should be to out of state visitors.
- Others feel there should be no admission ever. It does seem that at most parks it costs more in labor to collect the admission fees than is collected by said fees.
Other complaints that aren't as common are pets in the park (or the rules against pets in the parks). and an overabundant and/or an overzealous law enforcement community.
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