Actually, I visited this place before Christmas, but forgot to post it. Oops! It was an interesting place, and even though I only spent one night there, I want to post about it.
I did not know until recently that there were several large dry prairie areas in Florida. Basically, a dry prairie as it exists in Florida is a subtropical community of low shrubs and grasses. This type of grassland was once very common in Florida but most of it was replaced by grazing land or farming, and now a lot of it has become developed land for housing. It usually consists of land that is poorly drained and is kept as prairie though burning.
In any case, the few dry prairies in Florida are large tracts of land and enjoyed by stargazers because they are dark sky areas.
This is the simple entrance to Kissimmee Prairie Preserve. No fancy visitor center or even a gatehouse to welcome you, though there is a gate that closes at dusk.
