Micanopy, Florida

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Micanopy, Florida: Paynes Prairie
Photo by Gary Clark

Paynes Prairie

Looking more like African savanna than North Florida, the area within the 21,000-acre Paynes Prairie Preserve, a state park just north of Micanopy, is a topographical oddity created when several giant sinkholes formed in prehistoric times. Occasionally one of those holes, the Alachua Sink, floods to form a temporary lake in the park.


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