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Whooping Cranes by Geoff Gallice / Wikimedia.

Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, Florida

No beaches required. In the late 1770s, renowned naturalist William Bartram recorded his awe-struck impressions of this biologically and geologically significant area in the northern center of the Florida peninsula, calling it the “great Alachua Savannah.” As late as the 1880s, this prairie was a lake deep enough for steamboat passage. In the 1970s it […]

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