Glen Springs, Natural spring in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

Glen Springs is a natural spring in Gainesville, Florida, where groundwater rises through deep limestone layers into a small open pool. The pool sits surrounded by trees and low vegetation in a quiet corner of the city.

Cicero Addison Pound Sr. bought the spring and surrounding land in 1924, and architect Guy Fulton designed the first pool and springhouse. Fulton expanded the facility to three pools in 1940, and the University of Florida swim team practiced there around 1929. The pool closed in 1970 after the city banned chlorinated discharge into the creek; the Elks Lodge #990 then bought the property and swimming ended.

The spring gave its name to Glen Springs Road, now Northwest 23rd Boulevard. The two-storey springhouse held locker rooms below and a hardwood dance floor, jukebox and concession stand above; manager Roy Perkins called the facility "the largest baby-sitting agency in Gainesville." Tom Petty, who grew up in Gainesville, sang about swimming here in "Dreamville."

Glen Springs lies at 2424 NW 23rd Boulevard, and its Elks Club parking lot is used by visitors to the adjoining Alfred A. Ring Park, which borders the spring to the south. A bridge crosses the Glen Spring Run, the 500-foot outflow that joins Hogtown Creek. Swimming is not permitted; the Elks stocked the pools with bluegills and catfish.

The spring's outflow forms the 500-foot Glen Spring Run, which joins Hogtown Creek. Daily flow measured between 26,000 and 36,000 US gallons from 1941 to 1972, but a 2010 test recorded only 6,000 gallons per day. The Elks Club, which bought the property in 1970, stocked the old pools with bluegills and catfish and holds an annual fishing derby there.