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Guide to Florida’s Urbanist Communities

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WHERE TO STAY

Celebration Hotel 700 Bloom St., Celebration; 888/499-3800 or 407/566-6000; www.celebrationhotel.com; doubles from $179.

Herlong Mansion 402 N.E. Cholokka Blvd., Micanopy; 800/437-5664 or 352/466-3322; www.herlong.com; doubles from $119.

Dreamland Heights 121 Central Square Ave.; 800/277-8696 or 850/231-2222; www.cottagerentalagency.com; doubles from $219.

Josephine’s Bed & Breakfast Nine renovated rooms. 38 Seaside Ave., Seaside; 800/848-1840 or 850/231-1940; www.josephinesinn.com; doubles from $250.

The Pensione 78 Main St., Rosemary Beach; 850/231-1790; www.thepensione.com; doubles from $138.

Rosemary Beach cottages Short-term rentals available. 888/855-1551; www.rosemarybeach.com.

WaterColor Inn 34 Goldenrod Circle, Santa Rosa Beach; 866/426-2656 or 850/ 534-5000; www.watercolorinn.com; doubles from $370.

Hotel Astor 956 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305/531-8081; www.hotelastor.com; doubles from $185.

WHERE TO EAT

Market Street Café 701 Front St., Celebration; 407/ 566-1144; breakfast for two $14.

Third Place Pub & Grille 5323 S.W. 91 Terrace (Haile Village Center), Gainesville; 352/378-0721; lunch for two $50.

Dinner. at Thornebrook 2441 N.W. 43rd St., Gainesville; 352/377-0996; dinner for two $70.

Bud & Alley’s Seaside’s oldest restaurant, with a roof-deck bar—good for sunsets. 2236 County Rd. 30A, Seaside; 850/231-5900; dinner for two $90.

Onano Neighborhood Café Pensione hotel; Rosemary Beach; 850/231-2436; dinner for two $80.

Summer Kitchen Café 60 N. Barrett Square, Rosemary Beach; 850/231-6264; dinner for two $60.

Fish Out of Water WaterColor Inn, Santa Rosa Beach; 850/534-5050; dinner for two $110.

WHAT TO DO

Historic Haile Homestead The house that gave Haile Plantation its name. 8500 S.W. Archer Rd., Gainesville; www.hailehomestead.org.

Poe Springs Park Idyllic swimming hole outside Gainesville (no alligators). 28800 N.W. 182nd Ave., High Springs; 386/454-1992.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park An authentic Cracker farmhouse, where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote The Yearling and Cross Creek. Visitors can pick fruit in season from its citrus grove. 18700 S. County Rd. 325, Hawthorne; 352/466-3672.

Downtown Micanopy Beautiful, funky, and untouched in ways that coastal Florida towns never are—with an odd, interesting collection of antiques stores.

WHAT TO READ

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream By Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck.

A Guidebook to New Urbanism in Florida 2005 www.cnuflorida.org

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