2100 West French Avenue
Orange City, FL , 32763-9510

Phone: (386) 775-3663

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Blue Springs State Park is a popular tourist destination; available activities include canoeing, SCUBA diving, kayaking, fishing, camping, hiking, wildlife watching, and swimming. The spring in the park (Volusia Blue Spring) is the largest on the St. Johns River. Due to its relatively warm temperature of 73 °F (23 °C), the spring attracts many Florida manatees during the winter. In 1970, two years before Blue Spring State Park was established, researchers tracked 14 manatees in the spring run. By 2005, after years of park improvements and manatee protection efforts, wintering manatee numbers exceeded 200, and by 2023 that number skyrocketed to a record 729. Manatees can be found here from mid-November until March.

Hours of operation: Park hours are 365 days a year 8:00 am until sundown. The Gift Locker is open Monday through Sunday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Plenty of free parking once you are inside the park.

Admission: You must pay at the gate to enter the park. $6 per vehicle (two to eight people), $4 single-occupant vehicle, $2 pedestrians, bicyclists, extra passengers, passengers in vehicle with holder of Annual Individual Entrance Pass.

Machine 1 is inside at the back of the Gift Locker building (which is next to the snack shack. See circled area on the map).Cost to press: 51¢ each design. Designs all have a beaded border with 'Blue Spring Florida State Park':
1. (H) Alligator.
2. (H) Florida Black bear.
3. (H) Scuba diver.
4. (H) Manatee.

G.P.S. coordinates: Latitude: 28° 56' 42" N Longitude: 81° 20' 19" W
Google Maps coordinates: WMW6+2G Orange City, Florida

12/28/21: The machine is in the gift shop at the back.

March 2, 2024. The penny machine is rolling slightly short well centered excellent images on 95% copper pre-1982 pennies. MWHTH