Angus Gholson Nature Park

This 126 acre gem of a park is located on the Apalachicola River bluffs below Jim Woodruff Dam and Lake Seminole. Spring fed streams emerge at the bottom of ravines, trickling from below ground. Slope forests host alluring wildflowers, some very rare. Every season has special gifts to be discovered by the appreciative nature enthusiast.

In 2002 the Apalachicola boat landing in Chattahoochee was expanded through a grant from the Florida Communities Trust to create protected lands known as the Chattahoochee Landing Park and the Angus Gholson Nature Park, resulting in a combined area of approx. 130 acres, 84 acres of which are old-growth forest exceeding 100 years of age.

Diversity of habitats is the most outstanding feature: upland slope forest with calcareous subgrade, upland ericaceous river escarpments, and wide riverine floodplain. Steep ravines from natural seepage spring runs create a forest more reminiscent of Appalachian forest communities than typical northern Florida pinelands. An ongoing survey of plant species records more than 400 species to date. Dominant overstory tree species include Mixed Pine, Oak / Hickory, Beech / Magnolia, and Mesic Hardwood Floodplain.

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