Cypress Gardens

Central Florida's First Theme Park and Longest Running Tourist Attraction
Part 5

by Anthony Scaggs
Golf Clubs, Golf Resorts, Golf Courses

Cypress Gardens is Florida's first theme park and remains the state's longest running tourist attraction. It features numerous attractions such as, Mystical Magic and the Moscow On Ice Presents Skate the States with a "New Orleans" piece and a "California Dreamin" act, the Wacky Water Park, the Butterfly Conservatory, the Victorian Garden Party, and the FloraDome.

Bill Reynolds, Cypress Gardens' president and CEO, stated, "Cypress Gardens has long been known as America's Botanical Showplace, and the FloraDome really embodies this heritage." Its beauty and serenity is ideal for weddings.

Cypress Gardens is a 200-acre botanical wonderland where one will find a shaving brush tree, a sausage tree, lollipop plant or tropical snowball along with a world famous water ski show and theme park. It is located off U.S. Hwy.27 just 22 miles south of I-4 between Orlando and Tampa on the shores of Lake Eloise and Lake Summit near Winter Haven. Contact Cypress Gardens at (800) 282-2123 or (863) 324-2111 or Fax (863) 324-7946.

Cypress Gardens
P.O. Box 1
Cypress Gardens, FL 33884-0009
(800) 282-2123
(863) 324-2111
www.cypressgardens.com

Best Western Admiral's Inn
5665 Cypress Gardens Blvd.
Winter Haven, FL 33884
Tel: 800-247-2799
863-324-5950
Fax: 863-324-2376
www.bestwesternadmiralsinn.com

Central Florida Visitors and Convention Bureau
P.O. Box 8040
Cypress Gardens, FL 33884
Tel: 863-298-7565
Fax: 863-298-7564
www.sunsational.org
e-mail: CVB

Resource: Orlando Sentinel

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