Twenty plus videos taken in White Springs, including some Christmas parades, cloggers at a local festival, a soapbox derby, and random stuff around town
A bunch of videos of the Suwannee River. As the longest undammed river in the US, the river changes height by more than 25 feet.
May 2024
Suwannee Hardware and Feed hosted an impressive festival on the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend.
December 2023
Getting ready for Festival of Lights, the new signpost, some high water images, and some flowers.
December 2023
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park is in White Springs, and the staff there put on the Festival of Lights each December.
November 2022
Suwannee Hardware and Feed put of this festival, bringing in many vendors and even more visitors to town
April 2014
The river was high, and it was beautiful as long as you were about the flood line.
January 2012
White Springs is along the banks of the Suwannee River. Here are some images of the river,
December 2010
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park lights up in December.
May 2008
Some images from the Suwannee Bicycle Association's Pedal 'n' Paddle Festival
March 2008
The river was high, the azaleas were blooming, and the paddling on the river was fun!
June 2002
My first visit to White Springs, we floated down the Suwanne on Sharon's tandem kayak, then rode the old Gar Pond trail.
Gar Pond is 11 miles of singletrack in Columbia County. The trail was rebuilt in 2020 after logging that removed all the short needle pine from just 4 miles. The trail was designed to be dry longer than the other trails.
Fosters Hammock is about an 8 mile trail in Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park. Currently, the first four miles is singletrack along the river, a stretch of doubletrack on Camp Road, and then a final mile that is far more challenging than you would expect in a State Park!
Suwannee Bicycle Association's oldest trail.
November 2023
Big Shoals is our longest trail. We usually access it from the Beavor Loop.
The Beast is a challenging trail across from Gar Pond on the Columbia County side of Little Shoals.
Beavor Loop is a two mile standalone loop that is a lovely ride all by itself, but it is also an excellent gateway to Big Shoals.
The Woodpecker Trail is a 3.4 mile Paved trail in Big Shoals. In 2005 the plan was to extend it in two sections to Wesson Street in White Springs to provide a pedestrian and bicycle friendly route between Big Shoals and Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park.
November 2021
Bell Springs Trailhead is accessed from Lassie Black Road, it is a lovely section of the Florida Trail on the Columbia County side of Big Shoals.
The Gar Pond Tract is Suwannee River Water Management District floodplain land with an eleven mile bike trail designed to be on dry land as long as possible as the river rises.
Big Shoals Public Lands is managed by the State Park Service, State Forestry, and River Management District. The Big Shoals is unique in Florida, the only Class III Rapids in Florida when the river is between 56' and 59' above sea level
Fosters Hammock is an 8 mile mountain bike trail in Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park. Sometimes there is water on the trails.
October 2010
State Biologists came to Stephen Foster to review the plans to build a trail in the park
October 2010
Images from hiking the Bell Springs section of the Florida Trail
October 2011
It took a while, but the Fosters Hammock Trail was dedicated on October 9, 2011
WSHPS is a non-profit with a mission to preserve the past and to grow the town's future. Their website contains useful information about the history of White Springs and its Historic District.
Learn MoreSBA is a non-profit in White Springs for over 30 years. They maintain 50 miles of mountain bike trails around White Springs, and hundreds of miles of road and gravel routes around the Suwannee Valley.
Learn MoreLocated in the old Adams Country Store building, the hardware store is an old country store brought to life. Located in the center of town, it also organizes monthly swap meets and other events for White Springs.
Learn MoreStephen Foster is in White Spriings, a 250 acre Park with 47 campsites with power and water, along with 5 lovely cabins with wraparound porches, a Museum, a Carillion Tower, a Crafts Village, and events every month.
Learn MoreWhite Springs is home to two Florida State Parks. Big Shoals is located a mile out of downtown on County Road 135. It provides access to Big Shoals, the only Class III Whitewater Rapids in the state. The Suwannee River drops 9' over a 1/4 mile, due to the Cody Escarpment. The park also has the Woodpecker Trail, a 3.4 mile paved trail through the park, with a picnic area and bathroom at the river end of the trail.
Learn MoreThe Florida Trail is a 1,500 mile trail beginning at Big Cypress National Preserve and ending at Gulf Islands National Seashore. About halfway along the trail it follows the Suwannee River across the river from Big Shoals SP to White Springs, and then continues through Stephen Foster SP on its way west.
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