Market Night in St. Cloud: The Last-Wednesday Takeover of New York Avenue
More than a hundred makers and bakers, a young-entrepreneurs season, food trucks and open-late shops: the Downtown Monthly Market is St. Cloud’s modern town square.
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A Family Day in St. Cloud: Cracker Villages, Ancient Oaks and a Working Serpentarium
Peghorn’s pioneer village, Lake Runnymede’s oak canopy, Lake Lizzie’s marsh loop and venom-milking shows at Reptile World: the no-reservation family circuit south of Orlando.
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Historic Downtown St. Cloud: A Walking Guide to New York Avenue
Brick storefronts, a 1927 hotel, murals of the Great Fire and a bench of family restaurants: the National Register downtown that the veterans’ colony grew into, block by block.
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Lakefront Park and East Lake Toho: St. Cloud’s Front Yard on the Water
A sand beach, a splash pad, a working marina, a round-the-clock boat ramp and 12,000 acres of bass water: the complete guide to St. Cloud’s lakefront.
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Soldier City: How Union Veterans Founded St. Cloud in 1909
Thirty-five thousand acres, a lottery in Atlantic City and a town built by Civil War veterans in their seventies: the G.A.R. Hall, the Heritage Museum and Mount Peace tell the strangest founding story in greater Orlando.
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Breakfast and Coffee in St. Cloud: Brunch Rooms, Craft Lattes and BBQ at Dawn
A chef-led brunch room, a family craft coffee shop, two Colombian bakeries and a barbecue joint famous for breakfast: how St. Cloud starts its day.
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Loading… Gastrobrunch: Brunch With Ambition Inside the 1927 Hunter Arms Hotel
Chicken and waffle tacos and Cinni-bun French toast in a Florida land-boom hotel: how Loading… Gastrobrunch became downtown St. Cloud’s destination kitchen.
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Crabby’s on the Lakefront: Twenty Years of Seafood Sunsets at the Marina
Crab boils, grouper and a pet-friendly deck over East Lake Toho: Crabby’s is St. Cloud’s waterfront institution, and the sunset table the whole town recommends.
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Where to Eat in St. Cloud Right Now
A dozen-table Italian room, a steakhouse in a 1909 building, brunch inside a 1927 hotel, barbecue on 13th Street and seafood on the marina: the researched map of St. Cloud’s tables.
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Chimento’s Spaghetti House: The Dozen Tables Downtown St. Cloud Runs On
Family-owned, owner-run and fiercely local, Chimento’s serves the Italian-American canon on New York Avenue to regulars who drive in from two counties away. A profile.
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