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1. Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation
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2. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
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3. Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
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4. Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail
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5. Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park
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6. Paynes Prairie State Preserve
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7. Florida Museum of Natural History
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8. San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park
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9. Hippodrome State Theatre
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10. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Historic Site
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Florida's "New" Green Scene

Green Lodging program gaining members, momentum

As travelers, our impact on the environment is compounded. More trips mean more air pollution, garbage and water usage. There is hope, though. In the US, the state of Florida's doing its best to ease the environmental impact of one of its leading money-makers: the hotel industry.

 
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Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Gainesville, FL
4015 SW 43RD STREET · GAINESVILLE, FL · 32608
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1250 W. UNIVERSITY AVE. · Gainesville, FL · 32601
 

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About Gainesville

Seat of north central Florida's Alachua County, Gainesville is best known as home of the University of Florida. This well-regarded public school, lair of the Fighting Gators, not only imparts a youthful vigor to the city of approximately 109,000 but is also the county's largest employer. The town itself sits amid pine forests, wetlands and farms, all of which once fueled its main industries of agriculture and lumber. Although these still remain strong, Gainesville, in recent years, has added...