Silver Glen Springs Recreation Area — Attraction in Pomona Park

The spring itself is beautiful and definitely worth swimming at. I recommend coming here by boat dropping anchor and checking out the spring. If you enter the park threw car it's charged by person and each person receives a wristband I am not a fan of the wristband I think it's a waste towards the environment. Maybe a waterproof stamp if your trying to get strict on who payed and didn't. At the same time this is nature why make everything super strict. There's a lifeguard on duty and workers will come up and tell everybody to get out of the water when there's literally not a cloud in the sky but apparently there was a lightning bolt so many miles away so you're not allowed to swim for 30 minutes. I'm for state parks making money to preserving our natural beauty's definitely but the way it's running is a little bit too much. I also feel like if I want my trained animal at the spring I should be able to bring it but all the springs seem to be changing there pet friendly policy. Back to my first topic, If I want to swim in the rain I should be able to. The world seems to be in a huge power hunger and creating so many rules in my opinion is someone who wants full control over everything. What happened to the good ole days where you can go to a spring swim meet nice people and have a cold one. Well those days are NOT here! here people search coolers and seem very controlling over everything you do. If you like things in this order than this place is your paradise. Overall everyone seems nice. But I'm a free spirited individual who is on a hunt to hit every spring in Florida and I will be reviewing them in time but this place is beautiful but to strict on the...

This is such a beautiful, natural spring. The water is perfect, clear and cool. When the schools of fish come to visit, it really is a sight to see.

I think it’s worthy of mentioning that this park is privately owned, and not a state park. We were sorely disappointed to find out that we could not use our annual passes.

The cost to enter is $8 + tax per person. No discounts for kids, military, etc.

Once the parking lot is full, that’s it. If planning to go during the summer on a weekend, you’ll need to be in line when the gates open. If not before. Otherwise you won’t get in.

There are no actual bathrooms, only port a potties. No showers either.

The sign says no life guard on duty but occasionally there will be a lifeguard present. They are there (I think) mostly to keep the kids from climbing the palm trees and to keep food and drink out of the water.

Floats/tubes are welcome, no restriction on the size.

Be aware that there are a lot of women that choose to wear thongs and I’ve heard and read other reviews that some women were topless.

The park truly needs to do something about the fly problem. There are SO MANY flies that swarm your food and belongings no matter where you go or what you do.

Vultures also like to camp out and rip apart your coolers, bags, etc. So make sure you have everything in solid containers or it will be eaten and strewn everywhere.

There are broken shells, rocks and tree stumps everywhere, including the water. Every time we’ve gone, someone has left with a bloodied toe. Water shoes are recommended.

Bring your snorkels, flippers...

So why 2 stars? Pros 1st!: only 7.50 per person on Monday. in December on a weekday its not busy at all! Only 2 cars in parking lot when we got there- maybe 8 when we left. deep water with tons of fish at spring manatees out in the river nice place to have picknick with aprox 10 tables.

Cons: -We had a 12 ft trailer behind the truck and needed 2 parking spaces? There were 98 parking spaces and only 2 cars there on Monday in December! We parked at the very back of the entire parking lot so we wouldn't take up any precious space - and were still asked to leave. -there is NO camping. there are98 parking spaces and like ten tables for use. summer time is hectic here! 3-5hr wait times there kayak and canoeing launch is stairs! But the swimming only area is where the ramp is- but you cannot get close to the swimming area with your kayak without staff yelling at you from shore. -they feed the raccoons here a lot, so they come right up to you and your kids and will take stuff from you and your kids- and run off with it!!! Like cameras and whole bags small coolers, turn your back for 15sec and they are looking through your stuff right next to you! since we. COULDN'T park here we paddled here from 4miles away, when we got here we decided to pay the fee to get into the park to leave from this location. Had to carry the kayaks all the way up this long hill and they just let us struggle with it and the raccoons, once we got to the top they had kayak carts! Didn't think to tell us this as they sat and watched!

There are better springs- I'd go...