Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park

State park in Florida, United States

30°29′49″N 86°25′37″W / 30.49694°N 86.42694°W / 30.49694; -86.42694Area357 acres (144 ha)Established1966Governing bodyFlorida Department of Environmental Protection

Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park is a Florida State Park located on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida, southeast of Niceville. The address is 4281 Highway 20. Native American middens and artifacts can be seen throughout the park.

Recreational activities

The park has such amenities as bicycling, birding, boating, canoeing, fishing, hiking, kayaking, picnicking, tubing, wildlife viewing and full camping facilities.

Biology

Puddin' Head Lake is currently being drained to restore the landscape to its original state as a steephead stream.

The park's Sand Pine (Pinus clausa) forest has large, mature Sand Pines towering over other scrub vegetation, such as Florida Rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides), Reindeer Moss (Cladonia spp.), and scrub oaks: sand live oak (Quercus geminata), sandhill oak (Quercus inopina), myrtle oak (Quercus myrtifolia), and Chapman's oak (Quercus chapmanii).

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