Park Avenue, Winter Park’s “Mile of Style,” features 120 shops and restaurants on its east side and 11-acre Central Park on its west side. More than a million people visit the avenue each year.
For visitors from Vero Beach, there is something both familiar and unfamiliar about Winter Park. Like Vero Beach, it offers beautiful homes, elegant stores, canopied streets and relaxing parks – more parks per capita than any other Florida city. Unlike Vero Beach, it is nearly 50 miles from the Atlantic and lies in the shadow of a major city, Orlando, just five miles to the south.
What makes Winter Park a desirable getaway for Vero Beachers is the concentration of interesting sites – and sights – that exist within the city’s eight square miles. There is, first and foremost, its most famous street, Park Avenue, which offers more than 120 stores, boutiques, art galleries and restaurants in an area locally dubbed “The Mile of Style.”
At the north end of the avenue lies one of the most colorful museums in Florida, the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, which offers the largest display of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the United States. At the south end, a chain of 12 lakes provides a picturesque outing on one of the pontoon boats that tour the larger lakes and connecting canals.
Read the entire article in the February 2004 issue
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