The Villages Guides & Things to Do
A locals' guide to every town and neighborhood across Central Florida.
This Weekend · Central Florida
The Weekend Lineup: August 7-9
Andy Kahrs brings his Glen Campbell tribute "Rhinestone" to the Orange Blossom Opry Saturday night, and the $150,000 LeMieux Grand Prix CSI3* show jumping ...
Read this week's lineup →- A Local's Guide to Brooksville: Florida's Rolling Hills, Cracker Heritage, and a Walkable Downtown Brooksville is the Hernando County seat in Florida's rare rolling hill country -- an antebellum-rooted town with Cracker heritage, a walkable historic downtown, and Nature Coast rivers nearby.
- A Local's Guide to Bushnell: Dade Battlefield and Sumter County Ranch Country Bushnell is the Sumter County seat -- ranch country home to Dade Battlefield Historic State Park, where the Second Seminole War began in 1835, plus a Withlacoochee river park and honest hometown diners.
- A Local's Guide to Crystal River: Swimming With Manatees, Clear Springs, and Nature Coast Seafood Crystal River is the Nature Coast's manatee capital -- one of the only places you can legally swim with manatees (Nov-Mar) over the clear springs of Kings Bay, with scalloping in summer and Gulf seafood year-round.
- A Local's Guide to Dunnellon: Rainbow River Tubing and a Historic Boomtown Dunnellon is a small Marion County town built around the gin-clear, spring-fed Rainbow River -- some of Florida's best tubing and paddling water, wrapped in a historic 1890s Boomtown district.
- A Local's Guide to Eustis: Lakefront Ferran Park, GeorgeFest, and a Diverse Dinner Table Eustis is a Lake County town on Lake Eustis -- "America's Hometown," with the lakefront Ferran Park, the century-old GeorgeFest, and a dinner scene far more varied than its size suggests.
- A Local's Guide to Homosassa: Manatees, Monkey Island, and a Nature Coast Fishing Village Homosassa is an old Nature Coast fishing village on a spring-fed river -- home to a wildlife park with year-round manatees and "Lu" the hippo, the quirky Monkey Island, and waterfront Gulf seafood.
- A Local's Guide to Inverness: The Withlacoochee Rail-Trail, a Historic Square, and Citrus County Lakes Inverness is the Citrus County seat -- a lake-dotted town on the Withlacoochee rail-trail with a historic courthouse square (where Elvis filmed a movie), Fort Cooper State Park, and real local food.
- A Local's Guide to Leesburg: The Harris Chain of Lakes, Venetian Gardens, and Lakeside Eats Leesburg sits on the Harris Chain of Lakes in Central Florida -- a water-and-fishing town anchored by the 1930s Venetian Gardens lakefront park, with a walkable downtown and a big spring motorcycle rally.
- A Local's Guide to Mount Dora: The Most Charming Small Town in Central Florida Mount Dora is one of those Central Florida towns that locals have been quietly enjoying for years while the theme park crowds head elsewhere. The walkable do...
- A Local's Guide to Ocala: Horse Country, Glass-Bottom Springs, and a Real Downtown Ocala is the Horse Capital of the World and the Villa+Cala hub -- glass-bottom springs at Silver Springs, a zip line over a flooded quarry, the Don Garlits drag-racing museum, and a genuine downtown square.
- A Local's Guide to Tavares: America's Seaplane City on Lake Dora Tavares is "America's Seaplane City" on Lake Dora -- a downtown built around a lakefront seaplane base, with scenic flights, a paddlewheel riverboat, busy Wooton Park, and tiki bars on the water.
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