7Spring Creek Park
This scenic park is nestled in the little town of Marianna. It’s a great place for longer paddling and lazy river tubing adventures. Here you can relax and float for almost four hours along the crystal-clear water.
Spring Creek is sand-bottomed and shallow. It begins at popular Merrit’s Mill Pond and runs to the well-known Chipola River. The former spans an area of under 270 acres and has a depth of between 10 and 12 feet.
The park is comparatively small and yet it’s a popular place for fishing, spotting turtles, and tubing. Tubing on this fun, spring-fed creek is a crowd-pleaser so it’s best to get there early. Visit in the summer because the water gets as brisk as 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
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