Lakes Regional Park in Lee County, Florida

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Lee County attraction

Lakes Regional Park

Lee County · Gulf Coast

Two hundred and seventy-nine acres on Gladiolus Drive south of Fort Myers, built on a worked-out rock mine.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

West Coast Rock Company quarried limerock here from 1956 into the mid-1960s, and railroad spurs came in to carry it out, first the Seaboard Air Line and then the Atlantic Coast Line. When the digging finished the pits filled with water. The county opened the park on April 21, 1984, and the result is a hundred and fifty-eight acres of freshwater lake with about two and a half miles of walking and cycling path and a boardwalk around it. A fragrance garden holds herb, butterfly and cactus sections planted so that they can be smelled and touched rather than only looked at. There are playgrounds, picnic shelters and open fields, and canoes, kayaks and pedal boats are rented on the water. The Lakes Park and Gulf Railroad, a miniature line running fifteen minute rides, opened in 1994 and has carried more than three hundred thousand passengers since. Its Train Village holds a full size locomotive and caboose on display and the Railroad Museum of South Florida. A farmers market runs here through the season

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