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Unit Name: Torreya State Park
Acres: 13,180.67 Managing
Agency:
Description:
DRP
Current Management Plan
Approved:
High bluffs overlooking the Apalachicola River make Torreya State Park one of Florida’s most scenic
places. The park is popular for camping, hiking and picnicking. The main campground offers fullfacility
campsites and a YURT (Year-round Universal Recreational Tent). Primitive campsites on
back-country hiking trails and a primitive group campground are also available. Torreya State Park
is one of Florida’s original state parks, developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935
and 1939.
Accomplishments:
• Resource Management
• Completed 300 acres of sand pine removal from the Sweetwater Tract restoration zones.
• Accomplished over 100 percent of planned burn acres; more acres were burned each year than
ever before in the park‘s history.
• Removed approximately 160 feral hogs from park property.
• Developed an MOU with The Nature Conservancy to accomplish resource management goals in
partnership.
• Partnered with Florida Trails Association and volunteers to restore several miles of highly
traversed and highly erosion-prone hiking trails.
• Initiated protection of Torreya trees and created a protection plan for federally endangered
Apalachicola rosemary.
• Along with volunteers, created professional hiking trail maps.
• Visitor Services
• Enhanced and continued the annual Candlelight Tour event to provide visitor education of
plantation life.
• Capital Improvements
• Continued repair of Historic Gregory House following Secretary of the Interior Standards.
• Located and monitored cultural sites on newly acquired property.
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