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Spook Hill
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Spook Hill, looking north
Spook Hill is located in Florida
Spook Hill
Location in Florida
Spook Hill is located in the United States
Spook Hill
Location in the United States
Location North Wales Dr. between Burns Ave. and Spook Hill Elementary
Lake Wales, Florida
Built 1960
NRHP reference No. 100003585
Added to NRHP April 5, 2019

Spook Hill is a gravity hill, an optical illusion where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill in Lake Wales, Florida.

Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand and limestone hills, which were islands from two to three million years ago, when sea levels were much higher than at present.

The attraction is adjacent to Spook Hill Elementary School, which adopted Casper The Friendly Ghost as their school mascot. The attraction is also close to Bok Tower.

Spook Hill received national media attention when an article about it appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on October 25, 1990, and it was featured in a segment on CBS Morning News with Charles Osgood on November 5, 1990. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

Spookhill
Spook Hill in Lake Wales, Florida. One of central Florida's lesser known and older attractions.
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