A Special Deluxe Edition Real Florida Passport is now available to the thousands of park visitors who love to collect a commemorative stamp to remember their visits to our fabulous state parks.
With over 32 million visitors every year that is potentially a lot of passports and a lot of stamps but much more important, it is a lot of memories.
Many of us have a favorite park which we have visited repeatedly over the years – and we now cherish the memories of those visits as we camped with young children now grown or canoed a beautiful stretch of river or just enjoyed being surrounded by nature.
Noah Valenstein, Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, recalls that one of his favorite park memories is of growing up in Gainesville and swimming with friends and family “in the sometimes delightfully warm, sometimes refreshingly cool (depending on the weather outside) spring at Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park”.
We all have our memories and every visit to a new state park will add to them.
The new Passport is your invitation to get out and explore more parks and experience the diversity and beauty they have to offer. Each park is different and has something special to offer the visitor – one of the reasons the Florida Park Service has won the National Gold Medal for Excellence a record three times.
The Passport is also a mine of information, listing all the parks you can visit to explore and enjoy before getting your stamp. Years from now, you will be able to thumb your well-worn passport and recall all the wonderful experiences you had as you collected your park stamps.
Purchase the Special Edition Deluxe Real Florida Passport online or at select Florida State Parks. Start your adventure by visiting any of the Stamp Collection locations listed in the passport to receive a stamp and start building those memories.
We would also love to hear from you about those memories. You can share your photos and stories with us – and others – by using the hashtag #EveryStampIsAStory . Go out, explore and enjoy, and support our wonderful state parks.
