Florida Parks Archives - Aaron and Smell https://aaronandsmell.com/category/florida-parks/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:02:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Blue Springs State Park – Orange City, Florida https://aaronandsmell.com/blue-springs-state-park-orange-city-florida/ https://aaronandsmell.com/blue-springs-state-park-orange-city-florida/#respond Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:29:53 +0000 https://aaronandsmell.com/?p=368 Smelly and I traveled to Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida. The park itself is dog friendly, but dog swimming is not permitted. It makes a lot more sense you submerge yourself into an environment that is crystal clear, but also frail and sensitive to a lot of Read more

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]]> Smelly and I traveled to Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, Florida. The park itself is dog friendly, but dog swimming is not permitted. It makes a lot more sense you submerge yourself into an environment that is crystal clear, but also frail and sensitive to a lot of activity. The swimming animals and overall scenery is stunning and left me wanting to explore a little further each time I go back. Im a regular as the camping is great and for some reason I felt extremely close to home the first time I ended up here.

It all started when this chick swam up on me like “hey wanna see a manatee? it’s right over here!!!”

Her name was Sofia and later she just rolled up on Smelly and I with her handpan and was like “hey you should use this for your manatee movie!” – The completely sporadic, lovely and talented Sofia happened to cross paths with me, along with many animals in the park including Mr. Smells himself. He loves walking in the park.. especially since he found hot dogs left-over by campers. So now the entire park is a constant hot-dog hunt.

The camping is only $24 with my discount, so Smelly and I live here in the off-season anytime we can. Its nice to be able to leave the shop on any given day and cruise over to an absolute paradise I plan to call home. We save money on hotels by staying the van and or staying at the park. About every five days or so I will get Mr. Smelly a room so he can have that extra sploot room across any king sized bed. We love to eat out and typically you can find us at anyone of these fantastic Florida restauraunts.

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