Ingram’s Marina

Only 11 miles west of Florida’s state capital of Tallahassee, Lake Talquin remains an anomaly with over 40 miles of pristine and mostly undeveloped shoreline. With the hustle and bustle of the big city at its doorstep, Lake Talquin provides an opportunity to step into an old Florida landscape surrounded by all the natural beauty Florida has to offer. The abundance of dead trees and stumps scattered throughout this 15 square mile lake tell the story of what was once a rich floodplain forest turned into a manmade lake after the construction of the Jackson Bluff Dam to produce hydroelectric power in 1927. The southern and southwestern shorelines now form much of Lake Talquin State Forest. Did you know, the name “Lake Talquin” is a contraction of the names of the cities Tallahassee and Quincy, the two cities the lake is nestled between?