This year two of our Orlando team went down to show support for the Southwest Florida Tour de Cure in Lakewood Ranch. The course selected was the 35 mile course starting from downtown Main Street. Main Street is the downtown shopping, dining, and events center where everything happens. It was a lovely course with pretty much straight runs of open road so you know the infamous Florida wind was in effect.
Lakewood Ranch Tidbits
Lakewood Ranch is an unincorporated community master planned community in southeastern Manatee County, Florida, built on part of what was previously a timber ranch owned by members of Milwaukee’s Uihlein family. It is part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population for the 34202 ZIP Code Tabulation Area, in which Lakewood Ranch is located, was 15,335 at the 2000 Census. Started in 1995, Lakewood Ranch has an 8,500-acre (3,400 ha) master-planned community within it, consisting of seven villages.
