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Lake DeFuniak & Chipley Park

DeFuniak Springs, FL

FreeNaturesource checked 9/2

A near-perfectly round spring-fed lake has a free 1.25-mile ADA loop around it that is flat, stroller-easy, and pretty. It is about 1 hour and 10 minutes inland and pairs with the historic downtown circle.

Before you go

  • ~1h10 inland to DeFuniak Springs
  • Flat ADA loop: stroller-friendly
  • Walk the historic downtown circle after

What we checked, and when

Read off the venue's own page on 2026-09-02.

The park is free. Two walking paths circle the lake and both return to where they started, a 1.25-mile ADA sidewalk on the lakeside of Circle Drive and a 1-mile sidewalk on the bank. Swimming runs March 1 through September 30, 8 AM to sunset, and only in the designated area behind the DeFuniak Springs Library.

Limited shade on the loop, so hats and water.

⚠ The swim area closes for the season on September 30. The paths and the park stay open.

⚠ DeFuniak Springs publishes no opening or closing time for the park itself.

Where this came from

  1. City of DeFuniak Springs, Chipley Park / Lake DeFuniak, read 09/02/2026: swimming is “March 1 through September 30, 8 am to sunset, in a designated area behind the DeFuniak Springs Library”; “1.25-mile ADA-compliant sidewalk on the lakeside of Circle Drive” and “1-mile sidewalk on the bank of Lake DeFuniak”; “A beautiful, 260-acre park surrounding a perfectly round, 40-acre, naturally spring-fed Lake DeFuniak”. The page publishes no park hours and no admission fee of any kind.

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