State Parks are a big draw in Florida and in Franklin County

State parks across Florida saw nearly 600 thousand more visitors last year than the year before.

The Florida Park Service said more than 25 million people visited Florida’s 160 state parks during the last fiscal year.

Honeymoon Island State Park in Dunedin welcomed more visitors than any other state park in Florida for the seventh year in a row, with over 1 million visitors.

 St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach was the most popular park in north Florida with more than 893,000 guests.

Locally we saw over 209 thousand visitors at the St. George Island State park which was down from about 213 thousand the year before.

Bald Point State Park saw over 41 thousand people, a increase of about 6000 visitors from the year before.

The Orman House Historic State Park in Apalachicola brought in over 6100 people last year, the John Gorrie Museum State Park saw over 2400 guests.

In Gulf County the St. Joe Peninsula State Park saw an increase in their visitor numbers from 186 thousand people to over 228 thousand and the Constitution Convention Museum saw over 1700 people.

The Ochlocknee River State Park in Wakulla County saw over 46 thousand visitors last year – an increase of almost 10 thousand people.

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