Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park

State park in Florida, United States

Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park

IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)

Sign by entrance

Location| Charlotte County, Florida, USA
Nearest city| Punta Gorda, Florida
Coordinates| 26°52′24.73″N 82°1′26.36″W﻿ / ﻿26.8735361°N 82.0239889°W﻿ / 26.8735361; -82.0239889
Area| 42,518 acres (172.06 km2)
Governing body| Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park is a 46,000-acre (190 km2) Florida State Park, composed of islands and land that surrounds Charlotte Harbor. It is part of the Southwest Florida Water Management District and protects the Gasparilla Sound/ Charlotte Harbor, Cape Haze, Matlacha Pass, and Pine Island Sound aquatic preserves.[1] It is site 22 on southern section of the Great Florida Birding Trail and offers boating, paddling, fishing, and hiking.[1]

The park can be accessed from Punta Gorda, Cape Coral, Cape Haze, El Jobean, Rotonda, and Little Pine Island. The main offices are approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south of US 41/Tamiami Trail, in Punta Gorda.

## Admission and Hours

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There is no entrance charge. Florida state parks are open between 8 a.m. and sundown every day of the year (including holidays).

## Gallery

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* Woods

* Trail

* Old Datsun Trail

## References

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1. ^ a b Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park Southwest Florida Water Management District

## External links

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* Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park at Florida State Parks

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Protected areas of Florida

Federal level

| National parks|

* Biscayne
* Dry Tortugas
* Everglades

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National memorials|

* De Soto
* Fort Caroline

National monuments|

* Castillo de San Marcos
* Fort Matanzas

National seashores|

* Canaveral
* Gulf Islands

National forests|

* Apalachicola
* Choctawhatchee
* Ocala
* Osceola

National
wildlife refuges|

* Archie Carr
* Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee
* Caloosahatchee
* Cedar Keys
* Chassahowitzka
* Crocodile Lake
* Crystal River
* Three Sisters Springs
* Egmont Key
* Florida Panther
* Great White Heron
* Hobe Sound
* Island Bay
* J.N. 'Ding' Darling
* Key West
* Lake Wales Ridge
* Lake Woodruff
* Lower Suwannee
* Matlacha Pass
* Merritt Island
* National Key Deer
* Okefenokee
* Passage Key
* Pelican Island
* Pine Island
* Pinellas
* St. Johns
* St. Marks
* St. Vincent
* Ten Thousand Islands

Other national
protected areas|

* Big Cypress National Preserve
* Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve

National Marine Sanctuaries|

* Florida Keys
* Key Largo (1975–1990)
* Looe Key (1981–1990)

National Estuarine Research Reserves|

* Apalachicola NERR
* Guana Tolomato Matanzas NERR
* Rookery Bay NERR

National Wild and Scenic Rivers|

* Loxahatchee River
* Wekiva River

State level

| Parks|

* Amelia Island
* Anastasia
* Avalon
* Bahia Honda
* Bald Point
* Big Lagoon
* Big Shoals
* Big Talbot Island
* Bill Baggs Cape Florida
* Bulow Creek
* Caladesi Island
* Camp Helen
* Cayo Costa
* Collier–Seminole
* Colt Creek
* Curry Hammock
* Delnor-Wiggins Pass
* Devil's Millhopper
* Don Pedro Island
* Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson
* Eden Gardens
* Egmont Key
* Falling Waters
* Faver-Dykes
* Florida Caverns
* Fort Clinch
* Fort Cooper
* Fort George Island
* Fort Pierce Inlet
* Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou
* Gasparilla Island
* George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier
* Grayton Beach
* Henderson Beach
* Highlands Hammock
* Honeymoon Island
* Hontoon Island
* Hugh Taylor Birch
* John D. MacArthur Beach
* John Pennekamp Coral Reef
* Jonathan Dickinson
* Little Talbot Island
* Long Key
* Lovers Key
* Mike Roess Gold Head Branch
* North Peninsula
* O'Leno
* Oscar Scherer
* Perdido Key
* Price's Scrub
* Sebastian Inlet
* Skyway Fishing Pier
* St. Andrews
* St. George Island
* St. Marks River
* St. Joseph Peninsula
* Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center
* Stump Pass Beach
* Tomoka
* Torreya
* Windley Key Fossil Reef

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Botanical garden parks|

* Alfred B. Maclay Gardens
* Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock
* Lignumvitae Key
* Ravine Gardens
* Washington Oaks

Lakes, rivers
and springs parks|

* Deer Lake
* Lake Griffin
* Lake June in Winter Scrub
* Lake Kissimmee
* Lake Louisa
* Lake Manatee
* Lake Talquin

* Alafia River
* Blackwater River
* Dunns Creek
* Econfina River
* Hillsborough River
* Little Manatee River
* Myakka River
* Ochlockonee River
* Oleta River
* Suwannee River
* Three Rivers

* Blue Spring
* De Leon Springs
* Edward Ball Wakulla Springs
* Fanning Springs
* Homosassa Springs Wildlife
* Ichetucknee Springs
* Lafayette Blue Springs
* Madison Blue Spring
* Manatee Springs
* Ponce de Leon Springs
* Rainbow Springs
* Silver Springs
* Troy Spring
* Weeki Wachee Springs
* Wekiwa Springs
* Werner-Boyce Salt Springs
* Wes Skiles Peacock Springs

Recreation areas|

* Dead Lakes
* Gamble Rogers Memorial

Museums, historic sites,
and archaeological sites|

* Addison Blockhouse
* Cedar Key Museum
* Constitution Convention Museum
* Forest Capital Museum
* John Gorrie Museum
* Ybor City Museum

* The Barnacle
* Bulow Plantation Ruins
* Dade Battlefield
* DeSoto Site
* Dudley Farm
* Fort Foster
* Fort Mose
* Fort Zachary Taylor
* Gamble Plantation
* Indian Key
* Koreshan
* Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Homestead
* Natural Bridge Battlefield
* Olustee Battlefield
* Orman House
* Paynes Creek
* San Marcos de Apalache
* Yellow Bluff Fort
* Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins

* Crystal River
* Lake Jackson Mounds
* Letchworth-Love Mounds
* Madira Bickel Mound
* Mound Key
* San Pedro Underwater

Preserves and reserves|

* Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek
* Anclote Key
* Cedar Key Scrub
* Charlotte Harbor
* Crystal River
* Disney Wilderness
* Estero Bay
* Green Cay Wetlands
* Fakahatchee Strand
* Hal Scott
* Kissimmee Prairie
* Lower Wekiva River
* Paynes Prairie
* Pumpkin Hill Creek
* River Rise
* Rock Springs Run
* San Felasco Hammock
* Savannas
* Seabranch
* St. Lucie Inlet
* St. Sebastian River
* Tarkiln Bayou
* Topsail Hill
* Tosohatchee
* Waccasassa Bay
* Yellow River Marsh

State trails|

* Blackwater Heritage
* Florida Keys Overseas Heritage
* Gainesville-Hawthorne
* General James A. Van Fleet
* Jacksonville-Baldwin
* Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway
* Nature Coast
* Palatka-Lake Butler
* Palatka-to-St. Augustine
* Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad
* Withlacoochee

State forests|

* Belmore
* Big Shoals
* Blackwater River
* Carl Duval Moore
* Cary
* Charles H. Bronson
* Cottage Hill
* Deep Creek
* Etoniah Creek
* Four Creeks
* Goethe
* Holopaw
* Indian Lake
* Jennings
* John M. Bethea
* Lake George
* Lake Talquin
* Lake Wales Ridge
* Little Big Econ
* Matanzas
* Myakka
* Okaloacoochee Slough
* Picayune Strand
* Pine Log
* Point Washington
* Ralph E. Simmons Memorial
* Ross Prairie
* Seminole
* Tate's Hell
* Tiger Bay
* Twin Rivers
* Wakulla
* Watson Island
* Welaka
* Withlacoochee

Local level

| Preserves and reserves|

* Boyd Hill
* Gumbo Limbo
* Moccasin Lake

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