Trails and Tees: Lake Mary’s Outdoor Double
The 23-mile Cross Seminole Trail ends here, and Timacuan’s two contrasting nines wait on the east side. Lake Mary’s outdoor case, made.
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Outdoors
Where the Everglades Begin: Walking Shingle Creek from Hunter’s Creek
The northernmost headwaters of the Everglades run along Hunter’s Creek’s western edge. Two trailheads — one behind a middle school, one at Vista Park — open boardwalks, pine islands and a working cypress swamp.
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Seven Parks, One Community: Inside Hunter’s Creek’s Private Green System
Osprey Park runs the programming, Eagle Park has the fishing dock, and five village parks handle daily life — a resident-ID parks system that is the master plan’s clearest daily dividend.
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Lake Lorna Doone and Parramore’s Parks: Where the Neighborhood Plays
In 1955 Lake Lorna Doone Park hosted the first integrated Little League game in the South; rebuilt in 2021, it anchors a park system that includes Z. L. Riley Park’s youth-built mosaics and Lake Dot. Parramore’s green story.
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Colonialtown’s Green Rim: Langford Park, Dickson Azalea and Festival Park
A 1924 azalea ravine with a 1926 bridge, an eighteen-acre neighborhood park with two playgrounds, and sixteen festival acres just east: the complete guide to Colonialtown’s three-park southern rim.
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Sunset on Lake Ivanhoe: Gaston Edwards Park and the Skyline Show
Paddle at golden hour, watch downtown light up across 124 acres of water, then walk to Virginia Drive for dinner — Ivanhoe’s daily ceremony, done properly.
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The Park That Named It: Inside Delaney Park Itself
Seven and a quarter acres at 1055 Delaney Avenue — Duckworth Park until 1959, and still the front yard of the neighborhood that took its name.
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Highlands Reserve: The Hilltop Round That Breaks Florida Flat
Mike Dasher’s 1998 course drapes 120 feet of Green Swamp Ridge elevation, waste areas and a Biarritz green over the villa community that shares its name.
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Mount Dora on the Water: The Dora Canal, Premier Boat Tours and Driving Your Own CatBoat
The Dora Canal is a mile of cypress tunnel between two lakes, and Mount Dora runs three good ways into it: a narrated pontoon from the Lakeside Inn dock, the Rusty Anchor, or a two-person catamaran you drive yourself.
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The Mount Dora Lighthouse: Florida’s Only Inland Lighthouse, and the Walk That Earns It
Thirty-five feet of red-and-white brick at Grantham Point, built in 1988 as a real aid to navigation — plus the Gilbert Park and Palm Island boardwalk walk that turns a photo stop into Mount Dora’s best hour.
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