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Caladium Festival Colors Florida’s Lake Country for Three Days
Lake Placid hosts a three-day festival with gardens, vendors, and community competitions, pairing summer travel with nearby recreation and convenient overnight lodging.
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Lake Placid grows the vast majority of the world’s caladiums, and the town’s namesake festival puts that unlikely distinction on full display each July, with guided tours of working caladium fields alongside arts and crafts, food, entertainment, a car show, and a community race centered on Stuart Park’s downtown lakes. It’s an agricultural celebration first, with the small-town festival trappings built up around it.
The caladium tours are the festival’s real draw for curious travelers. Few visitors arrive knowing much about the ornamental plant industry, and fewer still leave without a newfound appreciation for the fields of color that surround this stretch of the Heartland. The rest of the weekend’s programming, from the car show to the race, gives the festival a broader small-town appeal beyond its horticultural niche.
Lake Placid’s central Highlands County location suits an overnight road trip well, with fishing, paddling, and scenic drives filling the hours around the scheduled festival events. The town’s murals and lake-dotted setting reward a slower pace than a single-day visit allows, making the three-day festival window a natural excuse to stay through the whole run.
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