The boat, nearing completion at St. Johns Ship Building, features a flat deck, ample aisles, convenient access and inch-thick windows on the spring-fed waters.

A shipyard in Palatka is putting the finishing touches on a new glass-bottom boat for Silver Springs tours. Springs tours in glass-bottom boats have thrilled tourists since the late 1800s.

The glass-bottom boat tours have been a staple at Silver Springs since the 1870s. Miller says the rest of the fleet has been around since the mid-1960s, before people were thinking about handicap ...

Location: Silver Springs State Park has a main entrance at 5656 E. Silver Springs Blvd. in Silver Springs. The camping and museum entrance is located at 1425 NE 58th Ave.

Visitors at Silver Springs can take glass-bottom boat tours and rent kayaks instead of swimming in the spring. (Marta Zherukha/WUFT News) “I go to these places and see luscious plants and the ...

Of scores of such boats plying Silver Springs since the 1800s, the one nearing completion at the St. Johns Ship Building shipyard near Palatka will present a flat deck, ample aisles and will be ...