Anastasia State Park

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US State Park, Florida

1340-A A1A S
Saint Augustine, FL 32080
www.floridastateparks.org/anastasia

Phone: 904-461-2033; Fax: 904-461-2033
Size: 1,425 acres land; 218 acres water. Location: Exit 311 from I-95, go east on SR 207, then right on SR 312, and left on A1A; or from US 1, left onto SR 312 and then north (left) on A1A. Facilities: 139 full-facility campsites ( wheelchair access

), bathhouses, beach ( wheelchair access

), picnic area, trails, canoe and sailboard rentals, food concessions, camp store, playground, interpretive exhibits, restrooms. Activities: Camping, boating, canoeing/kayaking, fishing, swimming, surfing, windsurfing, hiking, horseback riding, bicycling, wildlife viewing. Special Features: Located just south of Saint Augustine on Anastasia Island, the park has a broad beach, tidal salt marsh, and maritime and upland hammock. In addition to the many water sports available, the park is a great place to see birds, marsh life, or even whales or other sea creatures.

Anastasia State Park

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Anastasia State Park
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)

Location	St. Johns County, Florida, USA
Nearest city	St. Augustine, Florida
Coordinates	29°51′43″N 81°16′23″W / 29.86194°N 81.27306°W / 29.86194; -81.27306Coordinates: 29°51′43″N 81°16′23″W / 29.86194°N 81.27306°W / 29.86194; -81.27306
Area	1,700 acres (6.9 km²)
Established	1949
Governing body	Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Anastasia State Recreation Area is a 1,600-acre (6.5 km²) Florida State Park located on a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of Anastasia Island across Matanzas Bay from downtown St. Augustine. The park has a variety of wildlife, birds and plants in a setting of beaches, tidal salt marsh, and marine and upland hammock.

Contents

1 Recreational activities
2 Hours
3 See also
4 External links

Recreational activities

Activities include bird watching, camping, fishing, sun bathing, running, surfing, sail boarding, swimming, kayaking, hiking and picnicking.

Amenities include a campground and nature trails, and the park is unique in being the site of a quarry from which the coquina stone used in the construction of the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine was mined.

Hours

Florida state parks are open between 8 a.m. and sundown every day of the year (including holidays).

External links

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Protected Areas of Florida

Federal

National Parks	Biscayne National Park Dry Tortugas National Park Everglades National Park

National Monuments and Memorials	Castillo de San Marcos National Monument Fort Matanzas National Monument De Soto National Memorial Fort Caroline National Memorial

National Forests	Apalachicola Choctawhatchee Ocala Osceola

National Wildlife Refuges	Archie Carr Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee Caloosahatchee Cedar Keys Chassahowitzka Crocodile Lake Crystal River Egmont Key Florida Panther Great White Heron Hobe Sound Island Bay J.N. 'Ding' Darling Key West Lake Wales Ridge Lake Woodruff Lower Suwannee Matlacha Pass Merritt Island National Key Deer Okefenokee Passage Key Pelican Island Pine Island Pinellas St. Johns St. Marks St. Vincent Ten Thousand Islands

Other National Protected Areas	Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Big Cypress National Preserve Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve Canaveral National Seashore Gulf Islands National Seashore Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

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 Upper Tampa Bay Park Windley Key Fossil Reef

Botanical Garden Parks	Alfred B. Maclay Gardens Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Lignumvitae Key Washington Oaks State Gardens

Lakes, Rivers and Springs Parks	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 Rainbow Springs Troy Springs Weeki Wachee Springs Wekiwa Springs Werner-Boyce Salt Springs Wes Skiles Peacock 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 Little Salt Spring 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 Grassy Lake Hal Scott 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

State Trails	Gainesville-Hawthorne General James A. Van Fleet Nature Coast State Trail Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad Trail Withlacoochee

State Forests	Belmore Big Shoals Public Lands Blackwater River Carl Duval Moore Cary Cottage Hill Deep Creek Etoniah Creek Four Creeks Goethe Holopaw Indian Lake Jennings John Bethea Lake George Lake Talquin Lake Wales Ridge Little Big Econ Matanzas Myakka Okaloacoochee Slough Picayune Strand Pine Log Point Washington Ralph E. Simmons Memorial Ross Prairie Seminole Tate's Hell Tiger Bay Twin Rivers Wakulla Watson Island Welaka Withlacoochee

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