Description

Blue Spring State Park is home to a first-magnitude spring that is one of the largest winter gathering sites for manatees in Florida. In 1970, two years before Blue Spring State Park was established, researchers tracked 14 manatees in the spring run by 2018 that number skyrocketed to a record 485. Blue Spring refers to Volusia Blue Spring. Blue Spring, one of more than 300 springs in Florida. Blue Spring is 1 of 27 springs in Florida classified as a first-magnitude spring, out of a possible 8 levels of magnitude. First-magnitude springs are the largest springs and are defined as those that discharge at least 100 ft3 /s. Blue Spring, is in a pool at the head of a spring run that discharges into the St. Johns River.

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