Over 21 million people visited Florida's state park over the past 12 months

State parks across Florida saw nearly 700 thousand more visitors last year than the year before and visitor numbers were up at many local parks.

The Florida Park Service said more than 21 million people visited Florida’s 160 state parks during the last fiscal year.

More than 3.8 million more visited Florida’s State trails.

Honeymoon Island State Park in Dunedin welcomed more visitors than any other state park in Florida for the sixth year in a row, with nearly 1.1 million visitors.

 St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach was the most popular park in north Florida with more than 860,000 guests.

Locally we saw over 213 thousand visitors at the St. George Island State park which was up from about 192 thousand the year before.

Bald Point State Park saw nearly 35 thousand people, a slight increase from the year before.

The Orman House Historic State Park in Apalachicola brought in over 7000 people last year, the John Gorrie Museum State Park saw over 2500 guests.

In Gulf County the St. Joe Peninsula State Park saw an increase in their visitor numbers from 175 thousand people to 186 thousand and the Constitution Convention Museum saw nearly 2300 people.

The Ochlocknee River State Park in Wakulla County saw over 36 thousand visitors last year.

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