Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County in the U.S. state of Florida. Gainesville is the largest city in the region of North Central Florida.
Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the nation’s seventh largest university campus by enrollment, as well as to Santa Fe College. The Gainesville MSA was ranked as the #1 place to live in the 2007 edition of Cities Ranked and Rated. Gainesville was also ranked as one of the “best places to live and play” in 2007 by National Geographic Adventure.
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Additional Points of interest
- 34th Street Wall
- Baughman Center
- Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at Florida Field
- Bivens Arm
- Civic Media Center
- Devil’s Millhopper
- Florida Museum of Natural History, including the Butterfly Rainforest exhibit
- Gainesville Apartments
- Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail State Park
- Gainesville Raceway
- Haile Homestead
- Harn Museum of Art
- Hippodrome State Theatre
- Ichetucknee Springs State Park
- Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
- Lake Alice
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
- Newnan’s Lake
- Paynes Prairie
- San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park
- Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo
- Stephen C. O’Connell Center
- William Reuben Thomas Center
