National Park? Traditional Cache

This cache is placed on the Hickory Trail at Highlands Hammock State Park

The park is open from 8 am until sunset, 365 days a year.

A state park entrance fee is required.

In the late 1920s, local citizens concerned about losing the hammock to farmland, began raising money to purchase the land.  In February 1930, the land was considered for a national park.  The Hammock was inspected by a National Park official of the Department of Interior, Roger Toll, and chairman of the Tropic Everglades Park Association of Miami, Earnest F. Coe.  The officials were greatly impressed with the beauty of the land and the potential of it as a park.  At that time the Hammock included about 480 acres.  After a second inspection a few weeks later, it was expressed that the Hammock project was too small to interest the National Park Service, especially without the help of the state.