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In reply to the discussion: 'The magic's too expensive': Disney is 'pricing out loyal customers' by targeting more affluent fami [View all]csziggy
(34,119 posts)Merritt Island National Wildlife Reserve and Canaveral Sea Shore are wonderful spots and are near to the Kennedy Space Center with a great museum of space technology. In Lake Wales Bok Tower (aka Mountain Lake) preserve has the cultivated gardens at the top of the highest natural elevation in Peninsular Florida, the wonderful tower with a fantastic carillon, and down on the lower parts, original Florida habitat.
Florida also has lots of state and county parks - I love the Circle B Bar Reserve just south of Lakeland, the Lake Kissimmee State Park with a recreated 1880s cow camp, and so many other places in Central Florida that are not theme parks or artificial crap.
I grew up down there before Disney destroyed the habitat and will never go to Disney World - but I have found so many alternatives that are real, I don't miss it at all.