This cache is placed 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.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs to put young men back to work. Thousands of CCC boys went to work laying out trails, clearing forests, and working on conservation-related projects throughout the country. In 1934, a local CCC camp began working on a botanical garden project adjacent to Highlands Hammock Park. When Florida’s state park system was established in 1935, Highlands Hammock became one of the state's first parks. It is one of eight original CCC parks in Florida. In 1941, with World War II looming on the horizon, the CCC camp closed and the park and gardens merged. Over these six years, hundreds of men had planted thousands of plants and constructed roadways, dams, bridges and buildings. Although the gardens never became a reality, the park's natural beauty endures.