Florida Springs Trip

Beginning our trip in Palatka Florida Linda and I, heading west on State Road 100 to Lake Butler where we then headed up to Ocean pond in the Osceola National Forest. It's a very beautiful ride leisurely laid-back two-lane road through the woods.

Travel Map

The main campground at Ocean pond has many nice sites, an allows 30 days which is very unusual to the normal 14-day stay in National Forest Campgrounds. Most of the campground and the Primitive area is still 14 days, only Power and Electric Area is 30 days

Linda and I found three sites that we really liked that have sort of access to the lake for kayak and canoe.
However there are very many beautiful sites, we were mainly looking for site that has direct Lake access. Several sites are very large and would accommodate a good size family or a small group.

Linda and I then headed west on US Highway 90,
Then on to Lake Live Oak and spent the night at the Suwannee River State Park.

After stopping for 5 hours at Walmart 😱 to get two tires for the van we knew we were going to need to purchase it was something we didn't figure we were going to have to do this soon into our trip and we're hoping to put it off for a few more months but it was done and now it's over.

Continuing on the next day Linda and I visited several other springs had lunch at a little Park along the Suwannee River. Linda and I, then camped the second night at Stephen Foster State Park again on the Suwannee River.

Finally, on our third day, we proceeded back to the Osceola National Forest on our way home back to Palatka.