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Boulware Springs

A small, non-swimming spring in a Gainesville city park producing ~200,000 gallons/day, historic 1890s brick waterworks surround it, and it's an easy short walk

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Darby Springs

A 2nd-magnitude spring in the Hornsby Springshed on private land along the Santa Fe River, part of a groundwater system dye-traced to Mill Creek and Lee Sinks,

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Foxhole Springs

Foxhole spring, also known as Fenceline spring located directly within the Santa Fe River in Alachua County. Rather than forming a large distinct spring pool ,

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Glen Springs

A 5th-magnitude spring on private Elks Lodge property behind a former three-pool 1920s-40s bathing resort (headspring pool once 18x10 ft, 8 ft deep), no longer

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Hornsby Springs

A large circular spring pool (about 155 by 147 ft, 34.5 ft deep at the vent) with clear, slightly greenish-blue water on the private Camp Kulaqua retreat proper

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Magnesia Springs

Formerly a popular 1920s-1970s bathing resort with two spring-fed pools (72°F, fourth-magnitude spring) near Hawthorne, the property is now private and closed t

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Treehouse Springs

A 1st-magnitude, 32-foot-deep boil fed by two resurgences (one connected to the Santa Fe River Rise cave system), popular for swimming despite dark tannic water

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