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Inlet Beach Regional Access has parking, restrooms, and lifeguards during peak season.

Gulfview Heights Access has parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables with shelter, and lifeguards during peak season.

Fort Panic Regional Access is ADA accessible, has parking, restrooms, and lifeguards during peak season.

Blue Mountain Regional Access has parking, restrooms, and lifeguards during peak season.

Santa Clara access is ADA accessible, and has parking, restrooms, and lifeguards during peak season.

St. Andrews State Park is well known for its sugar white sands and emerald green waters.

Rocky Bayou State Park was transformed from a bombing practice range during World War II to a picturesque state park.

The beautiful freshwater spring at Ponce de Leon Springs State Park is named for Juan Ponce de León, who led the first Spanish expedition to Florida in 1513, as legend has it – in search of the “fountain of youth.” Visitors might well regain their youth by taking a dip in the cool, clear waters of Ponce de Leon Springs where the water temperature remains a constant 68 degrees

At Henderson Beach State Park, pristine white sugar sand beaches and more than 6,000 feet of natural scenic shoreline border the emerald green waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

NOTE Florida Caverns State Park suffered major damage from Hurricane Michael in 2018.

About an hour northeast of SoWal, just off I-10 at Chipley, Florida, Falling Waters State Park features huge trees and fern-covered sinkholes that line Sink Hole Trail, the boardwalk that leads visitors to Florida’s highest waterfall.

Topsail Hill Preserve State Park offers a wide variety of natural resources including 3.2 miles of secluded, white sand beaches with majestic dunes over 25 feet tall.