Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park

Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
The entrance for Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park off Florida State Road 20.
Location	Okaloosa County, Florida, USA
Nearest city	Niceville, Florida
Coordinates	30°29′49″N 86°25′37″W
Area	357 acres (1.44 km2)
Established	1966
Governing body	Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park is a Florida State Park located on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida, southeast of Niceville. The address is 4281 Highway 20. Native American middens and artifacts can be seen throughout the park.

Recreational Activities

The park has such amenities as bicycling, birding, boating, canoeing, fishing, hiking, kayaking, picnicking, tubing, wildlife viewing and full camping facilities.

Biology

Puddin' Head Lake is currently being drained to restore the landscape to its original state as a steephead stream.

The park's Sand Pine (Pinus clausa) forest has large, mature Sand Pines towering over other scrub vegetation, such as Florida Rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides), Reindeer Moss (Cladonia spp.), and scrub oaks: sand live oak (Quercus geminata), sandhill oak (Quercus inopina), myrtle oak (Quercus myrtifolia), and Chapman’s oak (Quercus chapmanii).

References and external links

Media related to Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park at Wikimedia Commons

• Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park at Florida State Parks