Silver Springs, Florida Silver Springs State Park Silver Springs State Park Location of Silver Springs, Florida Location of Silver Springs, Florida Silver Springs is an unincorporated improve in Marion County, Florida, United States.
It is the site of Silver Springs, a group of artesian springs and a historic tourist attraction that is now part of Silver Springs State Park.
Since the mid-19th century, the natural beauty of Silver Springs has thriving visitors throughout the United States.
"Shorty" Davidson, after leasing the territory from Ed Carmichael (upon whose death the springs were left to the University of Florida), advanced the territory around the headwaters of the Silver River into an attraction that eventually became known as Silver Springs Nature Theme Park.
In 2013, the State of Florida took over operations of Silver Springs and combined it with the adjoining Silver River State Park to form the new Silver Springs State Park.
Several defunct tourist attractions were once positioned near Silver Springs.
The Wild Waters water park also existed in Silver Springs and directed from 1978 to 2016.
The chief road through Silver Springs is State Road 40 which runs east and west from Rainbow Lakes Estates to Ormond Beach in Volusia County.
State Road 326 terminates at SR 40, as does State Road 35, which becomes County Road 35 north of SR 40 before terminating at SR 326.
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