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Apalachee Wildlife Management Area

Apalachee Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Apalachee Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 24 m. Sixteenth Hill stands 61 m to the south, 2.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Lake Seminole Wildlife Management Area - Ranger Station, a nature reserve 2.4 miles away. 155 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

FWC managed land

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates30.77700, -84.94139

155 named places within 25 miles

Springs: 60
  • Chattahoochee Spring: 7.8 mi
  • Hill Springs: 7.8 mi
  • Sinai Spring: 8.0 mi
  • King Spring: 9.8 mi
  • White Cave Spring: 10.1 mi
Parks: 49
  • Three Rivers State Park: 2.6 mi
  • Fairchild State Park: 3.7 mi
  • Sneads Park: 3.9 mi
  • Seminole State Park: 4.4 mi
  • Harvel Pond Park: 4.8 mi
Nature reserves: 20
Historic sites: 12
  • Tank: 4.6 mi
  • Caboose: 7.5 mi
  • CSS Chattahoochee: 7.7 mi
  • Cannon: 12.5 mi
  • Camp Recovery Historic Marker: 12.6 mi
Attractions: 3
  • Sugar Mill: 16.8 mi
  • Caverns Visitors Center: 17.1 mi
  • Downtown Bainbridge National Register Historic District: 23.7 mi
Museums: 3
  • Greensboro Depot Railroad Museum: 18.5 mi
  • Dezell House Museum: 18.7 mi
  • Panhandle Pioneer Settlement: 23.5 mi
Peaks: 2
Gardens: 1
  • Cane Field: 16.8 mi
Artworks: 1
  • CCC Worker: 17.1 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Apalachee Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sixteenth HillS 174°61 m2.5 mi
Hickory HillS 178°40 m11.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4418:2018:52
June solstice05:3819:1119:47
September equinox06:2918:0618:38
December solstice06:3416:0716:43

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F525562687681838279706054
Precip in4.04.55.03.73.15.15.14.94.13.13.74.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Marianna Muni AP, 15 mi away.

  • candyroot18 obs
  • Japanese climbing fern13 obs
  • longleaf pine10 obs
  • butterfly milkweed6 obs
  • American white waterlily6 obs
  • littleleaf sensitive-briar6 obs
  • Netleaf Leather Flower6 obs
  • Baldwin's Milkvine6 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

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OpenStreetMap element way/769699478

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