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Unit Name: Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway
Acres: 79,527.33 Managing
Agency:
Description:
DEP-OGT
Current Management Plan
Approved:
329
6/15/2007
The Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway (CFG) is an approximately 80,000 acre megaconservation
and recreation corridor stretching from the Gulf-of-Mexico to the St. John's River.
The CFG is comprised primarily of former Cross Florida Barge Canal (CFBC) lands and waters that
were turned over to the State after de-authorization of the project by the federal government in
the early 1990's.
The CFG averages a mile wide and traverses through extremely diverse upland and wetland
ecosystems on a large scale. The CFG also provides extensive and diverse recreational
opportunities including approximately 240 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails, paddling
routes along the Ocklawaha and Withlacoochee Rivers, fishing along the Gulf coast and Lake
Rousseau and Rodman Reservoir. There are also, public use hunting areas in partnership with the
FFWCC, ball field complexes, playgrounds, and other amenities developed and managed through
numerous partnerships with all levels of government and private entities.