For people who are looking to get away, there's one place in Flagler County that may serve as a neat destination: Princess Place Preserve.
The preserve was once home to an actual princess. Angela Mills Cutting Worden married an exiled Russian prince, and the couple lived in the area in the early 1900s.
It’s home to the first in-ground swimming pool ever to be built in Florida, as well as many types of wildlife.
But, what do visitors look for when they visit Princess Place Preserve?
"It's peaceful," said Judy Barry, a Palm Coast resident. "It's the way Florida used to look, and there's so little of that left now that I don’t want to see it disturbed."
There are a number of rustic campsites dotting the preserve.
But next year, new construction will happen under Spanish moss-draped trees.
Three air-conditioned cabins will be built. For a part of the year, the cabins will be used by researchers from the nearby Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Esturine Research Reserve.
The units will be open to the general public for the remainder of the year.
Barry is not so happy about the news.
"I'm so sorry to hear that," Barry said. "I love this place, and I don't want to see it go to anything like that. I'd rather see it stay the way it is."
Barry said she makes it a point to put a couple of dollars in the donation box every time she comes out to Princess Place. If it's money the county needs, she thinks there has to be a different way than the cottages.
Flagler County Administrator Craig Coffey said it's not about the money, though.
Coffey is the driving force behind the project, and he said the cottages — or cabins — are about expanding the reach Princess Place can have.
"Getting other folks who otherwise can't do rustic camping, can't do horse camping," Coffey said. "It gives the chance to experience the environment for other folks."
Construction is scheduled to begin Oct. 1, 2015.
Nine or 10 additional cabins are planned for the River-to-Sea Preserve, near Marineland.