Lake Griffin State Park

The tree is amazing! Lots to do in this park. The campsites are nice and wooded - also spacious. Boat tours and kayak tours are offered. Call in advance, they were not available during our stay. Great place for birds watching! 4 stars because of road noise.

This is a nice park, except for the fact that it does not have much to do unless you’re going to be boating. It does have the second largest oak tree which takes about 5 min to look at and then a small trail that is over in under an hour. We also did a 1 hour boat tour that was fun, but basically everything you can do here takes about 2 hours tops. Everything was clean, the staff was awesome and the camp sites were nice sized and had good tree coverage. If you plan to stay they day/night here then you will have a fun time, but anything more then a day and you will not have anything to do.

Best park ever. Where else can you see bears , wild turkey, wolves, raccoons, over a thousand different species of birds. And has the second largest Mammoth Live Oak tree in the state. Peace

Unfortunately it was not a very good visit. Our reservation apparently got messed up (no one's fault, computer error) and we had to check in on one site for the first night then change to another for our other 2 nights. Wouldn't have been an issue except we were tent campers. It's not easy packing up and relocating. Cooked breakfast,moved, then by the time we were basically set up again it started raining the rest of the day. Our second day there was pretty much ruined. I should have called to make sure the change I made to the reservation was correct on their end but I didn't,my fault. That issue aside: I don't believe the ground here is tent (canopy or screen tent) friendly. Beware it is extremely difficult to put stakes in the ground here. Granted I was mostly using some cheap stakes because we misplaced our regular ones but even the few better, thicker ones bent. The park itself is very small. Total of 40 sites and only about a mile and a half of trail. The mile and a half definitely makes up for the ground issue. The large oak tree is absolutely beautiful! The longer trail with the boardwalk was halfway blocked by water and we couldn't pass it without drenching our shoes so we turned back. Was totally worth the little hike though. Since we were tent campers the traffic noise is very noticeable, you're literally right next door to a 6 lane highway. There was really no wildlife that we could see. Heard some birds, an owl and saw a bunch of squirrels but that's it. I figured it was probably from being too close to the highway? Worth the stop but I don't know if we'll be back.

Stopped briefly to see the giant live oak. What a beautiful tree! If you like old trees, this is worth the stop. Enjoyed it all alone, no one else in sight. Made for a peaceful break in travel.