Gold Head Branch State Park, a Florida State Park, is just shy of 2400 acres (8 km²) of rolling sandhills, marshes, ravines, lakes and scrub located midway between Gainesville and Jacksonville, six miles (10 km) north of Keystone Heights on SR 21.

[1] Among the wildlife of the park are fox squirrels, southeastern kestrels, red-tailed hawks, bald eagles, wild turkeys, and gopher tortoises.

The park also has pocket gopher, fox, white-tailed deer and variety of water and wading birds.

Activities include fishing, horseback riding, canoeing, swimming, hiking and wildlife viewing.

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