Tate's Hell State Forest is 202,000 acres (819 km2) of land in Franklin and Liberty counties in Florida.

Tate's Hell State Forest is an important hydrologic area and includes a section of the New River (Florida Panhandle).

Debate over the use of water in this basin is the subject of a long-standing feud among the three southern states over which use or which user takes precedence over the others.

[needs update] Many endangered or threatened animals live in Tate's Hell State Forest, including the gopher tortoise and red-cockaded woodpecker.

Some rare plant species living in the forest include thick-leaved water-willow (Justicia crassifolia), white birds-in-a-nest (Macbridea alba), Florida bear grass (Nolina atopocarpa), Chapman's butterwort (Pinguicula planifolia), and small-flowered meadow beauty (Rhexia parviflora).