Why Nobody Visits Silver Springs, Florida Anymore

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FloridaGilded/videos%E2%80%A2%20?sub_confirmation=1 On October 1, 2013, the state of Florida took over Silver Springs after 135 years as a tourist attraction. The black bears were gone by May. The giraffe had died that winter. But the glass-bottom boats were still gliding down the Silver River — the same kind of boat that had been the whole business in 1878. In the 1960s this place drew 5,000 people on a weekday and more than a million a year; Tarzan swam here, and billboards for it ran all the way to Maine. It never controlled the three things it depended on: the land beneath it, the road to it, and the water inside it. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Springs_(attraction) https://dos.fl.gov/historical/preservation/florida-main-street/ask-the-locals/silver-springs-ocala/ https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/silver-springs-state-park