184 Feet Mount Dora, Florida

Mount Dora, Florida

Things to Do

Parks, beaches, museums, tours and charters — 70 places, ordered by how many people have reviewed them.

Mount Dora Florida Community Congregational Church
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Mount Dora Florida Community Congregational Church
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Downtown Mount Dora Florida
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  • The Best Things to Do in Mount Dora, FloridaMount Dora sits on a plateau 184 feet above sea level, which is not supposed to exist in Florida, and it has been trading on that fact since 1883.
  • Parks and Nature near Mount DoraThe plateau that gives Mount Dora its 184 feet is also what gives it its green. The elevation is modest, but it is enough to make the water views and the tree lines feel earned. Here is where to find the outdoors without leaving town limits or driving far past them.
  • Museums and Historic Sites in Mount DoraMount Dora sells itself as a hill town in a state that does not do hills, and the museums here do the same trick with time. The past is stacked vertically—pioneer cabins, railroad-era storefronts, a lighthouse that has no business being inland—and you can climb it in an afternoon.
  • Fishing Charters and Boat Tours in Mount DoraMount Dora’s waterfront is less a marina than a stage door. The town sits on a plateau 184 feet above sea level, which is not how Florida is supposed to work, and the lake below has been drawing people off the train and onto the water since the Alexander House opened as a hotel in 1883. A century later, the 35-foot lighthouse at Grantham Point—dedicated on 25 March 1988—made the point official: this is the only inland freshwater lighthouse in Florida. If you are here to fish, or just to float, the options are more varied than the town’s antique shops.
  • Golf around Mount DoraMount Dora’s golf story is less about sweeping fairways and more about elevation—both literal and social. The town sits on a plateau 184 feet above sea level, a hill in a state that barely shrugs, and its courses reflect that peculiar geography.

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