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Keystone Beach is located on Lake Geneva adjacent to city hall. The beach features picnic areas, the “Geneva Jungle” playground, with swings and slides. The Keystone Historic Pavilion has been recently renovated and can be rented out for gatherings and special events. The park is open to the public daily, from sunup to sundown.
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There is nothing like the beautiful Florida sunsets viewed across a beautiful body of water. Whether viewed from your own private dock or one of the many public areas, the result is the same. The skies almost look as if they were painted!
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Starke is located at the intersection of US Highway 301 and State Road 100. It is one of the area’s oldest communities and has more than 5,700 residents. Starke is the county seat of Bradford County.
Starke was founded on April 4th, 1870. Like other cities in this area, Starke’s history is tied to the railroad that still runs through the heart of the community. Starke served as the halfway point on Florida’s first railroad, the Fernandina to Cedar Key Railroad. The opening of nearby Camp Blanding brought a boom in population during the late 1940s, helping the City grow into one of the largest cities between Jacksonville and Ocala.
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Crystal Lake, like Lake Brooklyn is a sandhill lake. It is located between Keystone Heights and Starke just north of State Road 100. Crystal Lake is true to its name, and its waters are quite clear. The shores of the lake are primarily white sand. Residents and their guests enjoy Crystal Lake for boating, fishing, water skiing, tubing, and especially swimming. This lake has no public access.
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The Heart of Keystone Heights. Lake Brooklyn, at the northern edge of Keystone Heights in Clay county, is a sandhill lake within the upper Etonia Creek chain of lakes and is within the St. Johns River Water Management District. The lake covers approximately 217 acres. There is a public boat ramp located on King Street which runs off of State Road 100.
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Kingsley Lake is an almost perfectly circular lake of about 2,000 acres in North Central Florida, about six miles east of Starke, Florida. According to some sources, it is the oldest and highest lake in Florida, located on the edge of the Trail Ridge formation. The lake is a very stable lake with a sandy bottom. Its deepest point is about 100 feet inside of a steep sinkhole within the lake. Kingsley lake is so nearly circular that pilots call it the Silver Dollar lake. There are around 180 docks around the lake, mostly around the western half of the lake encompassing the small community of the same name. Camp Blanding is on the eastern side of the lake as part of the Florida National Guard, as well as a small airstrip just to the southeast of the lake as part of Camp Blanding. The lake is about 30 miles northeast of Gainesville, 30 miles southwest of Jacksonville, and 30 miles northwest of Palatka.
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Waldo is a small town with old Florida natural beauty. Waldo has a rich history, it was founded in the 1820’s, and established as a City in 1859. At one point, Waldo was home to the railroad that brought tourist to stay at one of the hotels, enjoy a baseball game, or paddleboat cruises on Lake Alto. Hunting and fishing were, and still are abundant. Several disastrous freezes destroyed the citrus industry. There was also a downtown fire and the great depression. If that was not enough, the railroad moved it’s operations out of Waldo. That put an end to Waldo’s tourism and trade.
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This 5850-acre lake has a “little” northern area and a “big” southern arm connected by “the pass” where shad school and fishing is usually good for schooling largemouth and stocked sunshine bass. Numerous homes surround the lake, most with docks and ski boats; fishing is always best early and late or at night and on weekdays. In spite of development, the fish habitat is outstanding with many areas of cypress and healthy maidencane grass beds. Santa Fe Swamp Wildlife and Environmental Area (WEA) is a floodplain swamp that feeds the upper eight miles of the Santa Fe River. Its critical importance in protecting and maintaining both the quantity and quality of water in the Santa Fe Lake and Santa Fe River led to the acquisition of this area. Most of the 7,272 acres in the Wildlife and Environmental Area are dense swamps.
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Located in northeast Florida at the southern end of Clay County, Keystone Heights is a small town where family values still abound. Its landscape includes numerous lakes, parks and recreation areas as well as a quaint downtown area where residents shop. The Keystone residents’ value their community and are active in all areas including schools, sports, churches, library and local events. It’s a place for neighbors to meet neighbors, and a town where people from around the World are welcomed as well. Combine these desirable lifestyle elements with the important facilities located within our community, and one begins to understand why this community has achieved the rate of constant growth it has over the past five years.
Keystone is also a “commuters’ town” since many of the residents commute daily to work within a 50-mile radius surrounding the city. The town sits between two main Florida cities, Gainesville to the Southwest and Jacksonville to the Northeast.
Nestled throughout the city limits of Keystone Heights you can find a variety of community parks and recreational past times. Here you may choose to take a leisurely stroll through the Nature Park or bring a picnic lunch to the Keystone Beach while the kids enjoy the Geneva Jungle playground. Invite some friends out to City Hall’s Theme park for a game of basketball, tennis or take advantage of the exercise stations located in Azalea Park. Pedal your way down the Rails to Trails bike path and be on the lookout 18for the upcoming Palatka-Lake Butler Rails to Trails Trailhead site. The City of Keystone Heights is a family friendly community filled with opportunities to enjoy the outdoors.
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