Paddle to Santa Fe Spring on the Upper Santa Fe

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Santa Fe Spring is a lesser known First Magnitude spring on the Upper Santa Fe. The Upper Santa Fe is the section above O'Leno Sink, on the Cody Escarpment. Santa Fe Spring follows a former First Magnitude Spring and recreational area: Worthington Spring. Worthington Spring was a First Magnitude which dried up in the 1970's.

Santa Fe Spring is a large bowl-like spring, surrounded by trees on property in conservation through the Alachua Conservation Trust. The spring empties out through a narrow channel into the narrow Santa Fe River, supplementing the flow that follows the convergence of the Olustee Creek and the more prolific New River confluence Worthington Springs.

The paddle winds through high banked clay formations that form the last of the Hawthorn Clay area, residuals from the erosions that occurred downstream on the Cody Escarpment, the ancient sea-shore of the Miocene era. If river level permits, we can paddle further up to the confluence of Olustee Creek