Florida has some wonderful access to natural beauty if you know where to look and this crystalline spring is the perfect ...

Christopher Meindl remembers going on family trips as a child to Ocala, where they’d visit Juniper Springs. “It’s a fabulous looking place,” Meindl, who is associate professor of geography at the ...

Tucked comfortably on the sun-soaked west coast of Florida is the ‘Sponge Capital of the World,’ also known as Tarpon Springs ...

You can’t see the lost springs unless the Florida Department of Environmental Protection conducts a procedure known as a ...

Madison Blue Spring 8300 Northeast State Road 6, Lee 2 hours, 50 minutes away Found amid the forests of one of Florida’s newest state parks, this small, but beautiful spring bubbles up into limestone ...

Seen from the air, a Florida freshwater spring is a bit of liquid heaven, luring humans and wildlife to enjoy its aquamarine cool. With at least 1,000 of them — more than any other state — the springs ...

Among all the crazy Florida news this year: We came close to a rezoning change that would have allowed an out-of-state company to build a huge gas station above a serpentine cave leading to the ...

“Behold … a vast circular expanse before you, the waters of which are so extremely clear as to be absolutely diaphanous or transparent as the ether.” Many of ...

U.S. Rep. Randy Fine has proposed a bill to study the feasibility of a Florida Springs National Park, encompassing the Ocala National Forest and surrounding springs. The proposed park aims to protect ...

“Behold … a vast circular expanse before you, the waters of which are so extremely clear as to be absolutely diaphanous or transparent as the ether.” Naturalist ...