Has anyone ever seen a Florida bear in the wild? Last week, we spent a couple of nights in a cabin at Sliver River State Park in Ocala. I highly recommend this park...beautiful area and the cabins are very nice. When we checked in they asked that we have our garbage placed in the outside garbage can before 6:30 pm every night. A park ranger goes around and collects all the garbage at 6:30 so that the bears cannot get it. We didn't see any bears though.