Qualla: Kingsley Lake https://qualla.com/kingsley-lake en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/m/d/kingsley-lake-wp/artificial-circular-lake.jpg Qualla: Kingsley Lake https://qualla.com/kingsley-lake Kingsley Lake: Introduction https://qualla.com/kingsley-lake/ Photo credit Public domain. From the air, it looks counterfeit. No natural lake should be this round. Yet there it is in Clay County, northeastern Florida: a disc of dark water so geometrically precise that early aviators nicknamed it the Silver Dollar Lake. Kingsley Lake is not the work of human engineering. It is a sinkhole, one vast dissolution cavity in the limestone bedrock, filled to the brim with some of the clearest freshwater in the state. The lake sits atop Trail Ridge, a Pleistocene-era coastal dune system that ranks among Florida's highest natural elevations, and its uncanny symmetry has puzzled and delighted observers for generations.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/m/d/kingsley-lake-wp/djmd-kingsley-lake-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kingsley Lake: A Hole in the Rock https://qualla.com/kingsley-lake/ Photo credit Kaiden, CC BY-SA 3.0. Florida's karst topography is famous for swallowing houses and highways, but Kingsley Lake represents the gentler side of that same geology. Over millennia, slightly acidic rainwater percolated through Trail Ridge's sandy soils and dissolved the calcium carbonate bedrock below, h...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/m/d/kingsley-lake-wp/djmd-kingsley-lake-a-hole-in-the-rock.mp3 0:06 2 full Kingsley Lake: Twenty-Five Cents to Paradise https://qualla.com/kingsley-lake/ Photo credit Kaiden, CC BY-SA 3.0. For more than half a century, Strickland's Landing was the place to be on a Clay County summer afternoon. Opening on the lake's north shore in 1946, the resort charged a quarter for admission and offered swimming beaches, water slides, boat rentals, bathhouses, and a snack bar. G...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/m/d/kingsley-lake-wp/djmd-kingsley-lake-twenty-five-cents-to-paradise.mp3 0:06 3 full Kingsley Lake: Behind the Wire https://qualla.com/kingsley-lake/ Photo credit Kaiden, CC BY-SA 3.0. Half of Kingsley Lake's shoreline belongs to Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard installation that has occupied the surrounding uplands since 1939. The base serves as the primary training site for the Florida National Guard, hosting Army and Air National Guard units, U.S. Arm...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/m/d/kingsley-lake-wp/djmd-kingsley-lake-behind-the-wire.mp3 0:06 4 full Kingsley Lake: A Refuge by Accident https://qualla.com/kingsley-lake/ Photo credit Kaiden, CC BY-SA 3.0. The same fences that keep the public out have kept ecological damage at bay. Kingsley Lake's watershed harbors an impressive roster of wildlife. Alligators patrol the shallows. Ospreys, herons, egrets, and kingfishers work the surface. Upland areas support gopher tortoises, easte...

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