Editing Hawthorne, Florida (section)

==Attractions==

Hawthorne obtained {{convert|3000|acre|ha}} surrounding Little Orange Creek (where a historic mill operated) in 2011.{{sfn|Friends of Little Orange Creek}} The Little Orange Creek Nature Park opened in 2017.{{sfn|Sargent|2017}} Managed by the city, it is divided into two sections. About {{convert|65|acre|ha}} south of State Road 20 are the nature park, and include parking and an environmental-education and event center. North of State Road 20 are {{convert|2800|acre|ha}} which are "preserved as a conservation area for local plants and wildlife". The preserve has public trails for hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding.{{sfn|Friends of Little Orange Creek}}

The city also owns and maintains Lindsey Phillips Park, off US Highway 301. The park (on Johnson Lake) has a boat ramp, fishing pier, playground, and picnic facilities.{{sfn|City of Hawthorne Parks}}

Several conservation areas are south and west of Hawthorne. Immediately adjacent to the city is the over-{{convert|11000|acre|ha|adj=on}} Lochloosa Wildlife Management Area. Its Cross Creek Trail is part of the [[Great Florida Birding Trail|Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail]].{{sfn|Florida Birding Trail}} Lochloosa Wildlife Management Area provides opportunities for hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, canoeing, and boating.{{sfn|Lochloosa Wildlife Management Area}}

[[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park]], about fourteen miles southwest of Hawthorne, maintains the "authentic Florida [[Florida cracker architecture|cracker]] homestead" where [[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings|Rawlings]] lived and wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning books.{{sfn|Rawlings State Park}} Although Rawlings did not live in Hawthorne, she used the Hawthorne post office and received mail addressed to "Hawthorn".{{sfn|Kisling|2014}}