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Central Florida still freezes occasionally so most of the tropical exotics can't establish long term. Once you go to Miami it starts getting crazy.

Sweetwater preserve in Gainesville has a ton of big gators. Tbh, though, central Florida is filled with alligators. You just have to stare at any given body of water for long enough

Check under rocks, logs, and trash. You will find a skink eventually.

Outside of south Florida it is mostly anoles. You can find green anoles in trees or in structures, they are more arboreal than the brown ones.

I generally had the best luck seeing skinks, scrub lizards, and fence lizards in sandy forested areas, like pine flatwoods and sandhills. The sand ridge would probably be a good place to look.

For the wacky invasive lizards like iguanas and agamas and shit you gotta go to Miami and the Everglades. It is worth it if you like lizards though, there are basilisks and rock agamas just walking around on the street down there. In the everglades at night you can find pretty much every species of lizard on earth that is kept as a pet.