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November 14, 2026 Staff Reports

North End, South End: I-Drive Is Really Two Strips

Eleven miles, two personalities. The north end runs on attractions and beautiful chaos; the south end on resorts, conventions and SeaWorld mornings. Learn the split and the whole corridor becomes legible.

Tourism

November 14, 2026 Staff Reports

Aquatica Orlando

SeaWorld’s water park: drop capsules, duelling racers and a slide that runs through a dolphin habitat — Orlando’s water park of record this winter.

A ray at The Grand Reef, Discovery Cove. Photo by Bob Linsdell, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — treated to the magazine's photo grade.

Tourism

November 14, 2026 Staff Reports

Discovery Cove

The all-inclusive day resort: capped crowds, a reef to snorkel, a river through an aviary, and thirty minutes with a dolphin if you book it.

Riders on Manta, the flying coaster at SeaWorld Orlando. Photo by Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — treated to the magazine's photo grade.

Tourism

November 14, 2026 Staff Reports

SeaWorld Orlando

Orca presentations and manatee rescue alongside Orlando’s densest coaster collection — the hybrid park, going strong since 1973.