San Marcos De Apalache Historic State Park
San Marcos De Apalache Historic State Park is a park in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Calico Hill stands 11 m to the northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Spanish Bastion Wall, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. BIG BEND SCENIC BYWY passes 0.5 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the BIG BEND SCENIC BYWY, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Saint Marks River City Park: 0.1 mi
- Wakulla River Park: 0.3 mi
- Mysterious Waters Neighborhood Park: 4.5 mi
- Shell Point Beach: 8.0 mi
- Camp Indian Springs: 9.5 mi
- Brewer Spring: 4.2 mi
- Newport Spring: 4.7 mi
- Shepherd Spring: 4.8 mi
- Wakulla No Name Spring: 5.5 mi
- Mcbride Slough Spring: 7.1 mi
- Spanish Bastion Wall: 0.0 mi
- FDC Fallen Officer and Employee Memorial: 8.2 mi
- Earthworks: 9.8 mi
- Battle of Natural Bridge: 9.9 mi
- Lynching Historical Marker: 20.0 mi
- Great Blue Heron: 3.8 mi
- Jesus: 9.5 mi
- Sculpture garden: 20.1 mi
- Officer Down: 20.3 mi
- Stormsong: 20.3 mi
- Old Wakulla County Jail: 10.1 mi
- Sopchoppy Museum: 17.9 mi
- Tallahassee Museum: 19.6 mi
- The Union Bank: 20.2 mi
- Florida Historic Capitol Museum: 20.3 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 5.2 mi
- Southwood Community Garden: 16.7 mi
- Plantasia: 20.2 mi
- Seminole Organic Garden: 20.7 mi
- Dent Street Diggers Community Garden: 21.2 mi
- E. Guy Revell, Junior Nature Trail Conservation Area: 7.6 mi
- Plank Road Wildlife Management Area: 13.5 mi
- Aucilla Wildlife Management Area: 16.0 mi
- Anita Davis Preserve at Henrietta Lake Park: 18.4 mi
- L Kirk Edwards State Wildlife and Environment Area: 20.3 mi
- Observation Deck: 3.8 mi
- Nurse Sharks: 13.8 mi
- Pickleariun: 13.8 mi
- Alligator Point: 20.8 mi
- Future Buc-ee's: 24.7 mi
- Sawdust Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Sand Hills: 8.7 mi
- Calico Hill: 17.1 mi
- Southern Dunes: 18.2 mi
- Shell Point Beach: 8.1 mi
- Mashes Sands Beach: 14.5 mi
- Wilson Beach: 20.7 mi
- Abandoned Elks Lodge Picnic Park: 20.6 mi
- Lewis Bluff: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of San Marcos De Apalache Historic State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calico Hill | NE 52° | 11 m | 17.1 mi |
| Sand Hills | E 91° | 3 m | 8.7 mi |
| Southern Dunes | SSW 206° | 2 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:17 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:37 | 20:07 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 19:03 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 17:05 | 17:42 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 56 | 61 | 67 | 75 | 81 | 83 | 82 | 79 | 70 | 60 | 54 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.3 | 5.2 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 4.9 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tallahassee, 18 mi away.
- Eastern Lubber Grasshopper31 obs
- Brown Pelican30 obs
- Boat-tailed Grackle24 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron22 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant20 obs
- common water hyacinth18 obs
- Laughing Gull17 obs
- bristle thistle16 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.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 66000271OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/138518807
Day trips start here
- Tallahassee · 21 mi
- Apalachicola National Forest · 28 mi
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