De Leon Spring State Recreation Area

De Leon Spring State Recreation Area is located in Orange City, Florida, is a pleasure resort that has been a natural playground for visitors for about six thousand years. Originally a place of rest amidst its beautiful springs for the Seminole native tribe, it is now a premier place for people from global destinations.

The area was settled by Europeans who built varied plantations there until the Seminoles sacked them in the 1800s. By the end of that century, the springs were again being used, but as a winter type resort where visitors were given the promise of being impregnated by sulphur and soda combinations as a form of youth type fountain.

Today, the area is a playground for everyone, where swimming is amongst its most popular activities. There is a shaded picnic spot around the springs and guests can even rent out paddleboats, kayaks and canoes to use on tours of the largest springs.

The area offers over eighteen thousand acres of pristine marshes, creeks and lakes, plenty of space for boating, fishing and camping. Close to the area's entrance, a fine restaurant serves homemade pancakes and fine lunches, which is especially popular with visitors on the lazy sunny days of weekends. In fact, the area is so popular that it can literally have no parking left in the middle of summer. The De Leon Spring State Recreation Area is also popular with hikers, walkers, picnickers, scuba divers and wildlife watchers.