![]() | Winter Garden cafes, splash pad and bike path |
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Winter Garden is a cute town that is growing rapidly. Its main strip or downtown area, Plant Street, has restaurants, a miles long bike path that runs through it called the West Orange Trail, and a splash pad called Winter Garden Interactive Fountain and Splash Pad. It's nice to come early before the heat and let your kids jump around on the splash pad. Grab a chocolate croissant and cup of tea at Rosallie Le French Cafe, to sip while you watch your kids.
Rosallie Le French Cafe has a nice youthful vibe. The inside decor is cluttered and the furniture bulky, plus it's quite dark inside. So it's better to sit at their nice outdoor seating around the side of the building near the gas station. They don't have baguette sandwiches so it's best to come in the morning to have a chocolate croissant, or have a lunch croissant later. They take super long to make tea.
Axum Coffee is a nice place to hang out. It's colorful and hip.
Make sure you walk into the middle of the road divider on Plant Street to see the pretty blue-green fountain and amazing purple hanging flowers. You can swing on bench swings. It's idyllic! There is piped in music in Winter Garden, adding to the upbeat atmosphere.
Thai Blossom is a good Thai restaurant on the main strip, with beautiful decor and friendly servers.
The West Orange Trail is a bike path that runs for miles through countryside and neighborhoods. It is not always shady, but it does run through downtown, which is fun.
Crooked Can Brewery is a fun spot to go on the weekend. It is inside the Public Market, which is full of cute places for foodies to explore. Outside, you can sit at awesome picnic tables under huge trees and listen to excellent live music on weekends. The people here are mostly young families and professionals.
Don't miss out on the shoreline of Lake Apopka, where you can see wildlife galore: baby alligators, turtles, and birds. There is a pier, little white bridges, and a walking path along the lake. It is located near Tanner Hall, and is a four minute drive or fifteen minute walk north on Lakeview Ave.
Aside from the cute historic main strip of Winter Garden, there is another side to it. A ton of gated cookie cutter communities are popping up south of the Turnpike. They are very soulless with gigantic houses situated close together, but probably an easy place for families to live, if they can handle the AC bill!
For an attractive shopping center with big box stores, check out Winter Garden Village, eleven minutes drive south.
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Plant Street is the main strip in Winter Garden. There is a small parking lot adjacent to the splash pad on the west side.
Winter Garden Interactive Fountain & Splashpad, 119 S Lakeview Ave, Winter Garden, FL 34787.
Rosallie Le French Cafe, 141 W Plant St, Winter Garden, FL 34787.
Axum Coffee, 146 W Plant St #110, Winter Garden, FL 34787.
Plant Street Public Market, 426 W Plant St, Winter Garden, FL 34787.
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