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St. Johns River, Catching fish and growing citrus

Explore Three Forks Conservation Area and other areas of the Upper St. Johns River at the southernmost portion of the St. Johns River Water Management District. Click each X to see a point of interest along the river.



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Thomas O. Lawton Recreation Area

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Three Forks Conservation Area

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C-54 Canal

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Fellsmere Water Management Area


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M Canal




Aerial view of a parking lot

Thomas O. Lawton Recreation Area

An aerial view of the Thomas O. Lawton Recreation Area is the gateway to the open water vistas of Three Forks Conservation Area.

A single palm tree standing among a vast lily pad lake

Three Forks Conservation Area

Vast expanses of sawgrass and water lilies define the open marsh at Three Forks Conservation Area, located west of Palm Bay.

Aerial view of the c-54 canal structure

C-54 Canal

The C-54 Canal is the vestige of an obsolete federal flood control project that was designed to send freshwater to the Indian River Lagoon. The District’s Upper St. Johns River Basin Project replaced this project.

Aerial view of the Fellsmere Water Management Area grasses

Fellsmere Water Management Area

An aerial view of the 10,000-acre Fellsmere Water Management Area in Indian River County.

Aerial view of the Blue Cypress stick marsh

M Canal

The waterway called “M Canal” runs north from Blue Cypress Lake and parallel to the St. Johns Water Management Area.

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