BVL’s Day Trip: The Kissimmee Lakefront and Broadway
The community’s standard day out, fifteen minutes away — Lake Tohopekaliga’s lakefront park and Osceola’s old main street.
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Osceola County
A BVL Family Day: Library, Boulevard, Park, Lake
The day Buenaventura Lakes families actually run — library and park on the same stretch of boulevard, bakery for lunch, the lake at dusk.
Read MoreDate Night from BVL: Stay for the Lake, or Run to Kissimmee
No invented date-night district: dinner on the boulevard and Lake Buenaventura at dusk, or the fifteen-minute Kissimmee run the community actually takes.
Read MoreThe Lakes of Buenaventura Lakes
The name is the geography: a community wrapped around Lake Buenaventura and its chain of neighbourhood lakes.
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Out of BVL: The Turnpike, the Parkway and a Station at Each End
Buenaventura Lakes sits at the Osceola Parkway–Turnpike interchange, with the Tupperware SunRail station at its western edge. The practical commute guide.
Read MoreWhere to Eat in Buenaventura Lakes: The Boulevard Pattern
Bakeries, lunch counters and the food of Little Puerto Rico — how eating works on Buenaventura Boulevard, and an honest note on what we can rank so far.
Read MoreThe Library on the Boulevard: BVL’s Civic Living Room
The Osceola Library System’s Buenaventura Lakes branch at 405 Buenaventura Boulevard — a bilingual anchor in a community with no city hall.
Read MoreHow a Subdivision Became a Homeland: BVL, Little Puerto Rico
Built from the 1970s and claimed completely by Puerto Rico’s diaspora — 44.5 percent Puerto Rican at the 2010 census. The making of Buenaventura Lakes.
Read MoreBuenaventura Lakes Community Park: The Community’s Front Yard
9.9 acres of Osceola County green at 419 Buenaventura Boulevard — the park an unincorporated community uses as its town square.
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Buenaventura Lakes: A Local Guide to BVL
30,251 people, no city hall, one boulevard: the unincorporated Osceola community that became Little Puerto Rico — and that the census once listed as Yeehaw Junction.
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