Amelia Island State Park

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Amelia Island State Recreation Area is a Florida State Park located 7 miles north of Little Talbot Island State Park on SR A1A, and 8 miles south of Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, Florida. The park is comprised of 200 acres of beaches, salt marshes and coastal maritime forests .

Activities include fishing, hiking, sunning, watching wildlife, and horseback riding. 45-minute horseback tours along the shoreline are given four times daily. The park is open from 8:00 am till sundown year round.

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Amelia Island State Recreation Area. Online. January 8, 2006.
Florida Online Park Guide -Amelia Island State Park, Northeast- Visit our Florida State Parks Online. January 8, 2006.

	Protected Areas of Florida Department of Environmental Protection
State Parks	Amelia Island \| Anastasia \| Avalon \| Bahia Honda \| Bald Point \| Big Lagoon \| Big Talbot Island \| Bill Baggs Cape Florida \| Bulow Creek \| Caladesi Island \| Camp Helen \| Cayo Costa \| Collier-Seminole \| Curry Hammock \| Delnor-Wiggins Pass \| Devil's Millhopper \| Don Pedro Island \| Eden Gardens \| Egmont Key \| Falling Waters \| Faver-Dykes \| Florida Caverns \| Fort Clinch \| Fort Cooper \| Fort George Island \| Fort Pierce Inlet \| Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou \| Gasparilla Island \| George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier \| Highlands Hammock \| Hontoon Island \| Hugh Taylor Birch \| John D. MacArthur Beach \| John Pennekamp Coral Reef \| John U. Lloyd Beach \| Jonathan Dickinson \| Little Talbot Island \| Long Key \| Lovers Key / Carl E. Johnson \| Mike Roess Gold Head Branch \| Navarre Beach \| North Peninsula \| O'Leno \| Oscar Scherer \| Ravine Gardens \| River Bluff Picnic Site \| Sebastian Inlet \| Skyway Fishing Pier \| St. George Island \| St. Joseph Peninsula \| Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center \| Stump Pass Beach \| Tomoka \| Torreya \| Windley Key Fossil Reef \|
Botanical	Alfred B. Maclay Gardens \| Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock \| Lignumvitae Key \| Washington Oaks State Gardens \|
Lakes, Rivers and Springs	Deer Lake \| Lake Griffin \| Lake June in Winter Scrub \| Lake Kissimmee \| Lake Louisa \| Lake Manatee \| Lake Talquin \| Alafia River \| Blackwater River \| Econfina River \| Guana River \| Hillsborough River \| Little Manatee River \| Myakka River \| Ochlockonee River \| Silver River \| Suwannee River \| Blue Spring \| De Leon Springs \| Edward Ball Wakulla Springs \| Fanning Springs \| Homosassa Springs Wildlife \| Ichetucknee Springs \| Lafayette Blue Springs \| Madison Blue Springs \| Manatee Springs \| Peacock Springs \| Rainbow Springs \| Troy Springs \| Wekiwa Springs \| Werner-Boyce Salt Springs \|
Recreation areas	Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek \| Dead Lakes \| Dunns Creek \| Gamble Rogers Memorial \| Grayton Beach \| Henderson Beach \| Honeymoon Island \| Oleta River \| Perdido Key \| Ponce de Leon Springs \| St. Andrews \| Three Rivers \|
Museums, Historic sites, and Archaeological sites	Cedar Key Museum \| Constitution Convention Museum \| Forest Capital Museum \| John Gorrie State Museum \| Ybor City Museum The Barnacle \| Bulow Plantation Ruins \| Dade Battlefield \| DeSoto Site \| Dudley Farm \| Fort Foster \| Fort Mose \| Fort Zachary Taylor \| Gamble Plantation \| Indian Key \| Koreshan \| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Homestead \| Natural Bridge Battlefield \| Olustee Battlefield \| Orman House \| Paynes Creek \| San Marcos de Apalache \| Yellow Bluff Fort \| Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Crystal River \| Lake Jackson Mounds \| Letchworth Mounds \| Madira Bickel Mound \| Mound Key \| San Pedro Underwater \|
Preserves and reserves	Anclote Key \| Cedar Key Scrub \| Charlotte Harbor \| Crystal River \| Estero Bay \| Fakahatchee Strand \| Kissimmee Prairie \| Lower Wekiva River \| Paynes Prairie \| Pumpkin Hill Creek \| River Rise \| Rock Springs Run \| San Felasco Hammock \| Savannas \| Seabranch \| St. Lucie Inlet \| St. Sebastian River \| Tarkiln Bayou \| Topsail Hill \| Tosohatchee \| Waccasassa Bay \| Yellow River Marsh \|
Trails	Gainesville-Hawthorne \| General James A. Van Fleet \| Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad Trail \| Withlacoochee \|