Manatee Springs State Park 11650 N.W. 115th St Chiefland, Florida 32626 Phone: 352-493-6072 A first magnitude spring, Manatee Springs discharges an average 100 million gallons of water every day.

Photos recently shared by Save the Manatee show a turtle hitching a ride with a manatee at Florida's Blue Spring State Park in 2021. Photos by Gina McClain/Save the Manatee ...

Shantay, a female 1,000-pound manatee, is seen floating at Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in this image from 2022. Shantay died in January after drowning in a pool at the ...

A well-known manatee who had previously been spotted last “cold season” trapped in a bicycle tire has returned to Blue Springs State Park tire-free!

We arrived at Manatee Springs State Park just after noon one warm spring day in April. We didn't know much about the park or about manatees, just that the park was six miles off the highway we ...

A 1,000-pound female manatee named Shantay died at the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in January after employees left her unattended while draining the pool she was in, according to a new ...

On Thursday, the park logged a daily count of 705, according to the park's Facebook page. That approaches the park’s previous record daily count of 729 manatees, set on Jan. 17, 2023. The ...

Live manatee webcams at Blue Springs State Park means the internet is finally good for something again By Matthew Moyer on Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 4:02 pm ...

Heavy rains and flooding have resulted in what state park officials are calling a "brown out" and the closure of the swimming area at Manatee Springs State Park near Chiefland.

Annie the manatee and her calf, as well as two juvenile sea cows, were spotted recently at Blue Spring State Park on the Save the Manatee Club's above-water webcam.. The group was spotted swimming ...

Manatee Springs draws the its namesake mammals every ... Manatee Springs State Park is at 11650 NW 115 St. off U.S. 98 in ... The park also has a campground and trails for hiking and mountain ...

ORANGE CITY, fla. - Groups attempting to rescue a manatee with a bicycle tire stuck around its body from Blue Spring State Park said Tuesday afternoon that the manatee had not yet been captured ...