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Gainesville FL Tourist Attractions
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Gainesville FL Tourist Attractions
Tourist attractions in Gainesville FL - Theme Parks, Tours, Museums, National Parks, Historic Sites & More!
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You can find Florida tourist attractions and activities in all of Florida's regions: Boca Raton, Clearwater, Daytona Beach, Destin, Florida Keys, Fort Walton Beach, Ft Lauderdale, Ft Myers, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Kissimmee, Lake Buena Vista, Lakeland, Miami, Naples, Ocala, Orlando, Palm Beaches, Panama City, Pensacola, Sanibel-Captiva, Sarasota-Bradenton, Space Coast, St Augustine, St Petersburg, Tallahassee, Tampa and Other.
Featured Florida Tourist Attractions and Activities
Please visit our Florida featured listings - Roger Daltrey at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Roger Daltrey at Hard Rock Live-Hollywood, Daughtry at Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Daughtry at Leon County Civic Center, Kelly Clarkson at Pensacola Civic Center, Nutcracker at Broward Center Au Rene, Nutcracker at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium, Miami Dolphins at Dolphin Stadium, Brian Regan at Peabody Auditorium, South Pacific at King Performing Arts Center, Monster Jam at Citrus Bowl, NFL Pro Bowl at Dolphin Stadium, Dane Cook at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Monster Jam at Raymond James Stadium, Monster Jam at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, Jersey Boys at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Disney Live at Germain Arena, Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field, Go Miami Card and Go Orlando Card.
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Florida Museum of Natural History
The state's official natural history museum
Category: Gainesville Museum in Florida
Description of this Gainesville Attraction: Chartered by the Florida Legislature in 1917, the Florida Museum of Natural History serves as the state’s official natural history museum. It is the largest collections-based natural history museum in the Southeast, with one of the nation’s top 10 natural history collections. The museum's education and exhibit center houses four permanent exhibits:
· In the Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land guests will learn about Florida’s geologic and environmental changes over the past 65 million years, and the fossils that give insight to the plants and animals that have made their home here.
· South Florida People & Environments explains the story of native people in South Florida and the environments that have supported them for thousands of years. Visitors can walk along a boardwalk through a mangrove forest, travel underwater to view larger-than-life marine creatures, visit the house of a Calusa leader and much more.
· Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife displays a full-sized replica of a North Florida limestone cave and educates visitors about the amazing diversity of Florida’s panhandle, the most biologically rich region of the state.
· The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and the Butterfly Rainforest opens Aug. 14, 2004, and will bring visitors face-to-face with hundreds of living butterflies. The 64,000-square-foot Butterfly Rainforest is complete with tropical and subtropical plants and trees, waterfalls and a walking trail. Guests also can view thousands of Lepidoptera species on the “Wall of Wings” and learn about butterfly and moth biology. The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity will house a collection of more than 4 million butterflies and moths, making it the second-largest Lepidoptera collection in the world.
· The museum also produces and hosts traveling exhibits, and presents adult and children’s classes, group tours and special events.
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Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
62 acre public display garden with 24 major collections
Category: Gainesville Nature in Florida
Description of this Gainesville Attraction: Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is a 62 acre facility that displays a variety of plant collections, 24 in all, that include the state's largest bamboo garden and the Southeast's largest herb garden. Other gardens include an expansive water garden, palm hammock, rock garden, cycad garden, hummingbird garden, bulb garden, rose garden, vinery, azalea-camellia garden, spring flower garden, butterfly garden and fern cobble. Smaller "vestpocket gardens" are sprinkled along the 1.5 mile paved walkway. One of the most popular of these is a carnivorous plant garden. There is a picnic area on site and the visitors' center, Summer House, hosts a gift shop and rental facilities for weddings, receptions, meetings and other social functions. Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is located on state road 24 (SW Archer Road) 1.3 mi. west if I-75 in Gainesville, Florida. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children 6-13 and children 5 and under are admitted free. Hours are weekdays except Thursday 9-5 and weekends 9-dusk; closed Thursday.
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