Orlando & East-Central Florida Weekend Getaways and Day Trips

28 travel guides found for Weekend Getaways and Day Trips in Orlando & East-Central Florida.

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A Land of Lakes: Polk City & Lakeland Weekend Getaway
Just barely past Orlando’s attractions area, you’ll find a cluster of small communities that offer a Mayberry-like atmosphere. Don’t ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Lakeland, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars America's Oldest City: Saint Augustine & Point Vedra Beach Weekend Getaway
Visitors come back to St. Augustine time and again to try the great variety of accommodations, from lavish beach and golf resorts ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Saint Augustine, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars Cattle, Oranges, and a Speedway: Avon Park, Sebring, & Lake Placid Weekend Getaway
The sleepy village of Avon Park deep in Florida’s belly hasn’t changed much in decades, which makes it a tempting day trip away from ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Sebring, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Celery and the Saint Johns River: Oviedo, Sanford, & DeBary Weekend Getaway
Barely over the county line north of Orange County, enter Seminole County near Oviedo. You’re still in Greater Orlando with its ever-devouring ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Oviedo, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Central Atlantic Coast: The Space Coast - A Galaxy of Options Weekend Getaway
From moon walks to walks on dunes, there is a galaxy of options along Florida’s Space Coast. This 72-mile stretch of Atlantic shoreline, ...
Published by The Globe Pequot Press Cocoa Beach, FL - Quick Escapes: Florida



Climb Mount Dora: Mount Dora, Tavares, & Leesburg Weekend Getaway
Sample an area that is filled with lakes, miles of green countryside, and still enough rural flavor to give you a rest from city life. ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Tavares, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Daytona Beach: Start Your Engines Weekend Getaway
When many people think of Florida, they think of Daytona Beach and auto travel (and racing). The wide beach allows cars and drivers ...
Published by The Globe Pequot Press Daytona Beach, FL - Quick Escapes: Florida

Florida Travel Guide by Fodor's Weekend Getaway
This travel guide is a chapter on Florida excerpted from the book "Fodor's USA." It covers the entire state of Florida region by region ...
Published by Fodor's Travel Publications Tallahassee, FL - Fodor's USA

Florida Travel Information by Rough Guides Weekend Getaway
Brochure images of tanning flesh and Mickey Mouse give an inaccurate and incomplete picture of Florida. Although the aptly nicknamed ...
Published by Rough Guides Orlando, FL - The Rough Guide to USA

Florida's Cattle Country: Saint Cloud & Melbourne Weekend Getaway
Beginning in the 1870s, soldiers who had served in the Civil War drifted into central Florida to settle down on ranches or to cluster ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Melbourne, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Florida's First Theme Park: Winter Haven Weekend Getaway
Water skiing was not invented here, but the sport owes much of its popularity to warm Florida waters, where it became a year-round ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Winter Haven, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Flroida's "Hill" Country: Poinciana & Lake Wales Weekend Getaway
Poinciana isn’t found on all road maps, but follow our directions and you’ll find a sprawling wilderness untouched by time—and just ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Lake Wales, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Gator Country: Micanopy, Gainesville, & Hawthorne Weekend Getaway
You’ll think you’re in another time zone when you drive into Micanopy (say mick-an-OH-pea), named for an Indian chief. Timucuan Indians ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Gainesville, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Grapefruit League Spring Training: Orlando/Disney, Vero Beach, Lakeland, Tampa, St. Petersburg Baseball Trip Family Vacation
The home of major-league baseball’s Grapefruit League spring training, Florida is synonymous with the game. There are dozens of parks ...
Published by Fodor's Travel Publications Kissimmee, FL - Fodor's Baseball Vacations

In the Center of Things: Barberville - Crescent City & Palatka Weekend Getaway
Once upon a time, each of these communities was a waypoint for streams of north-south traffic on the highway, railroad, and river; ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Crescent City, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Mount Dora: A Town, A Hill, and A Lake Weekend Getaway
Mount Dora is one of those charming central Florida towns that most visitors and residents don’t associate with the Sunshine State. ...
Published by The Globe Pequot Press Mount Dora, FL - Quick Escapes: Florida

NASCAR - Daytona International Speedway: World Center of Racing Weekend Getaway
When Bill France opened this speedway in 1959, there was nothing like it anywhere else in the world—a 2.5-mile, high-banked oval. ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Daytona Beach, FL - Insiders' Guide to the NASCAR Tracks

5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars5 out of 5 stars Outdoorsman's Paradise: Ocala National Forest Weekend Getaway
This is such a vast area with so many recreation opportunities, you could come here time and again and never tire of the nature show, ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Ocala, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Sleepy Little Towns: Clermont, Bushnell, & Dade City Weekend Getaway
As the sprawling shadow of Orlando spreads over it, Clermont, just west of Orlando, is quickly losing its identity as a separate community. ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Bushnell, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

Spiritualism and Springs: Cassadaga, Orange City, DeLand, & DeLeon Springs Weekend Getaway
This jaunt covers 10,000 years of history in a nutshell, and you’ll want to come back for more. The oldest canoe found in the Western ...
Published by Insiders' Guide Orange City, FL - Day Trips from Orlando

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