Lake Alice

Lake Alice is a little lake on the University of Florida grounds in Gainesville, Florida, United States. The lake is a natural life region and is one of only a handful couple of regions in joined Gainesville where one may see live crocs. The lake likewise harbors a populace of Florida softshell turtles. The college's bat house is close to the lake. The Baughman Center sits on the southwest bank of the lake.

On Lake Alice's northern side, there is a footpath that leads guests through the forested areas and bog to a survey stage. The general population of the Alachua culture who assembled an entombment hill close to the College of Law on University of Florida's grounds 1000 AD are accepted to have lived along the shore of Lake Alice.

The University of Florida organization and the Florida Department of Transportation intended to deplete parts of the lake and develop a cross-grounds throughway and 2,000-auto parking area along its shore. Ecological extremist Marjorie Harris Carr, alongside University of Florida educators John Kaufmann and Joe Little, drove a fruitful resistance development that in the long run crushed the arrangement. In 1988 the University of Florida organization looked to build up the shoreline of Lake Alice with extravagance understudy lodging, taking out the understudy plants and also the bat house simultaneously.