Just east-northeast of Gainesville is a permanent and stabilized sinkhole, Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park, that is 120 ft / 37 m deep that was (non-Covid) accessible by a good staircase, 132 steps. An attraction since the 1880s, the first stairs were installed by the CCC (Civilian Construction Corps) in the 1930s. Descending one goes from a pine forrest ecosystem into a subtropical rain forrest.
South of this city is Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, a 21,000-acre (85 km2) low savanna, that is drained by a ‘permanent’ sinkhole and some modern canals. Back in the 1870-90s, when the sinkhole drainage was blocked, shallow draft steamboats did a profitable business on the Alachua Lake. When Hurricane Irma (2017) came through the lake returned for about a month.
Just posting this to keep those LEFTist from the blue places home, Florida is so dangerous that you could be sleeping in bed one moment and be 100’ buried the next. Stay home up north and be safe!
Stay home up north and be safe!
If the Covid doesn’t get you a sinkhole will!!!
I climbed down the Devil’s Millhopper a couple of times in the 60’s... at the bottom the aquifer broke the surface and it was easy to find ancient shark’s teeth. If memory serves it was the north side that was easiest to climb down - anyhow every few years someone would die when they slipped. It was one of those ‘better pay attention to what you’re doing’ kind of places... Beautiful ... but not for the faint of heart.