Ocala: A Wilderness of Riches
This continues the RRN series highlighting lesser known destinations that offer getaways for small meetings, retreats, or bleisure travel. Click here to subscribe to RRN weekly, and here for an RRN media kit.
Who would imagine that a 90-minute drive north of Orlando lies an enormous national forest and nearby options for tubing, kayaking, and canoeing, or the opportunity to visit a thoroughbred horse farm.
The Highlights: A unique, vast national forest with numerous outdoor activities, rare wildlife and vegetation; 600 thoroughbred horse farms nearby; and a unique art museum.
Other Places Nearby: Kayaking, canoeing, glass-bottom boating and movies in Silver Spring State Park; tubing, kayaking or canoeing in Dunnellon's Rainbow Springs State Park.
Meetings & Event Options: Various options are available, including facilities at major chain hotels, college campuses, a cultural center and a livestock pavilion.
Tourists flock to Florida’s beaches, resort cities, Walt Disney World and the Everglades, but few have found one of the state’s largest ecological and geographic wonders, Ocala National Forest. The 383,000-acre forest—about a 90-minute drive north of Orlando and 15 miles southeast of Gainesville—is the southernmost forest in the continental United States and the world’s biggest sand pine scrub forest. The forest’s sand pine grows in desert-like conditions in acidic, well-drained sandy soils on rolling hills 20 to 200 feet above sea level.
Despite the desert-like conditions, the broad-leafed vegetation you see on this Short Escape as you walk on trails that meander through Ocala National Forest may make you feel like you are in a tropical rain forest. The vegetation offers comforting shade from the blazing Florida sun, and the trails are very soft on the feet.
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