Bulow Creek State Park is a Florida State Park

Florida State Parks

The Florida State Parks encompass the majority of the lands that fall under the authority of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. There are 160 such entities, including nature reserves, recreation areas, and historic sites, which can be found in every corner of the state...

 located five miles (8 km) north of Ormond Beach

Ormond Beach, Florida

Ormond Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. The population was 36,301 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 37,929. Ormond Beach is the northern neighbor of Daytona Beach and is home to Tomoka State Park.-History:Ormond Beach was...

. It is on Old Dixie Highway

Dixie Highway

The Dixie Highway was a United States automobile highway, first planned in 1914 to connect the US Midwest with the Southern United States. It was part of the National Auto Trail system, and grew out of an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final result is better understood as a small network of...

 (CR 4011), next to the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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. The park is adjacent to Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park

Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park

Bulow Plantation Ruins State Historic Park is a Florida State Park in Flagler Beach, Florida. It is three miles west of Flagler Beach on CR 2001, south of SR 100, and contains the ruins of an ante-bellum plantation. The original plantation was begun in 1821, growing indigo, cotton, rice, and sugar...

, and within close proximity to North Peninsula State Park

North Peninsula State Park

North Peninsula State Park is a Florida State Park, located north of Ormond-By-The-Sea and east of the Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park, off A1A.-References and external links:* at...

, Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area and Tomoka State Park

Tomoka State Park

Tomoka State Park is an Florida State Park located along the Tomoka River, three miles north of Ormond Beach on North Beach Street.-Fauna:...

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Flora

Containing one of the largest stands of Southern live oak

Southern live oak

Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is a normally evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South....

 remaining on the east coast of Florida

Florida

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, the park's "star" is the Fairchild Oak. Over four centuries

Century

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 old, it is among the largest of its kind in the southern United States

United States

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Fauna

Among the wildlife of the park are white-tailed deer

White-tailed Deer

The white-tailed deer , also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States , Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru...

, Barred Owl

Barred Owl

The Barred Owl is a large typical owl. It goes by many other names, including eight hooter, rain owl, wood owl, and striped owl, but is probably best known as the hoot owl.-Description:...

s and raccoons.

Recreational Activities

Activities include hiking

Hiking

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, canoeing

Canoeing

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, picnic

Picnic

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ing, wildlife viewing and primitive camping

Camping

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. Amenities include nature trails, a picnic pavilion and a primitive campsite. The Bulow Woods Trail, more than six miles (10 km) long, leads to Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park.