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.
Founded in 1949, still family-run, and No. 10 in our attractions rankings at 90.3: Jumparoo shows, a breeding marsh, a zip line over the gators — and 75 years of doing one thing completely.
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Before the theme parks, there was Gatorland — Owen Godwin’s 1949 roadside attraction at 14501 South Orange Blossom Trail, still family-run, still the Alligator Capital of the World.
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At the end of Black Hammock Fish Camp Road, airboats run a lake the operator estimates holds some 13,000 alligators — and the restaurant serves catfish and gator bites beside it.
Read MoreOrlando Citizen — a name first published in 1897
