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Torreya State Park
Bristol, Florida
  

Full Facility Camping, RV Park and Yurt Rental
 

▪ Full Camping
▪ Primitive Camping
▪ RV Camping
▪ Youth Camping
▪ Cabin/Yurt
▪ Nature Trails
▪ Picnicking
▪ Wildlife Viewing

The high bluffs overlooking the Apalachicola River make Torreya State Park one of Florida's most scenic. Rising more than 150 feet above the river, the bluffs have been shaped and divided by deep ravines that have been eroded by streams throughout the centuries.

Full Facility Camping
This 3,115-acre park has 30 campsites with electric and water hookups available for reservation through Reserve America.

Cabins
The park has 1 large YURT (Year-round Universal Recreational Tent) available for reservation. Torreya's yurt is a 20-foot round, domed tent with flooring, electricity, lockable wooden door, and three large windows with screens and flaps that open and close. Features of the yurt include air conditioning/heating, skylight, futon with bunk twin bed on top, queen-size bed, table and chairs, leisure deck. The yurt sleeps 5.  Reservations available through Reserve America.

Picnicking
A picnic area with covered shelters is provided.

Nature Trails
The natural beauty of the park can best be enjoyed along one of the nature trails. The Apalachicola River Bluffs Trail, a National Recreational Trail, offers a view of the river, Confederate gun pits, bluffs and hardwood forests. The Weeping Ridge Trail provides a healthy and pleasant walk to one of the park's deep ravines. A seven-mile loop hiking trail meanders through the park, exposing the hiker to virtually all the park's natural features.

Plantlife
The park is named for a species of rare Torreya tree that occurs only on the bluffs along the Apalachicola River. This once plentiful tree was nearly destroyed by disease in the early 1960s and may be doomed to extinction. Other rare plants found in the park include the Florida yew tree and the U.S. Champion winged elm. The forests of the park include river swamps, hardwood hammocks and high pinelands. Each community contains a different set of trees, shrubs and wildflowers which offer variety during each season of the year. The bluffs and ravines are forested by many hardwood trees that commonly occur in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. These hardwoods provide the finest display of fall color found in Florida.

Information provide August 2002 by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  For additional information or to check for park updates, please visit http://www.dep.state.fl.us/ .  To report any problems with the information posted, please email webmaster@destin-ation.com.

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