Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
No ranked restaurants sit inside Wekiwa Springs, and this page invents none. The community’s real food pattern: the park picnic, the SR-436 and SR-434 corridors, and Apopka’s and Altamonte’s tables, labelled as theirs.
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From the spring run at Wekiwa, the Wekiva River runs some 16 miles north to the St. Johns — one of only two Florida rivers with a federal Wild and Scenic designation. A paddler’s river, born in a suburb.
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The park the state bought in 1969 and opened in 1970: a spring swimming bowl, the Wekiva River’s headwaters, Rock Springs Run and miles of trail — adjacent to the community that shares its name.
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A second-magnitude spring pushing more than 40 million gallons a day into its run at a constant 72 degrees — cold in August, warm in January, and indifferent to both. The natural fact under the whole community.
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Wekiwa Springs is 23,428 people in Seminole County whose subdivisions carry the Wekiva spelling and whose reason for existing is spelled the other way: a 72-degree spring and the state park wrapped around it.
Read MoreFrom Fern Park’s lake streets, the whole of Seminole and north Orange opens within half an hour: Wekiwa’s spring, Sanford’s brick downtown, Winter Park’s Park Avenue — each labelled with its own hub.
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Since 1974, Lake Howell High School has taken in Fern Park’s teenagers along with Casselberry’s and Winter Park’s — the shared institution that ties south Seminole’s small communities together.
Read MoreFern Park holds no ranked tables, so its date night is an honest export: Cranes Roost in Altamonte Springs and Maitland’s South Orlando Avenue, labelled with their home areas, then home to the lake streets.
Read MoreFern Park never incorporated. Seminole County plows, polices and permits it; three cities surround it; and 8,205 people live complete lives inside the arrangement. How an unincorporated community holds together.
Read MoreUS 17-92 west, SR-436 south, and SunRail stations in the neighbouring cities: Fern Park’s working connections, and why a 2.3-square-mile suburb between three cities commutes better than it should.
Read MoreOrlando Citizen — a name first published in 1897