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College Park, Orlando — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Street signs read Princeton, Harvard, and Yale in College Park, a residential district of Orlando strung along Edgewater Drive north of Lake Ivanhoe.
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Where to stay in College Park
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
College Park is residential ground, and the choice inside it is really a choice of which stretch of Edgewater Drive to sit near. The southern end, at Lake Ivanhoe, is closest to downtown Orlando. Streets around Lake Adair and Lake Concord run quieter, on the older grid that Golfview Street and Peachtree Road hold between them.
Dubsdread holds the far north, at Par Street.
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Edgewater Drive
The commercial spine of College Park, widened to four lanes in 1957 and still the strip every side street feeds into.Find hotels in Edgewater Drivethe shortest run into downtown OrlandoLake Ivanhoe
The southern corner of the neighbourhood, where the Lake Ivanhoe Historic Residential District runs between Edgewater Drive and Interstate 4.Find hotels in Lake Ivanhoea base at the golf course end of Par StreetDubsdread
The northern edge, laid out by H. Carl Dann in 1923 around the club that still holds the corner of Par Street and Edgewater Drive.Find hotels in DubsdreadHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Orlando
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Museums & Galleries
2- Orlando Museum of Art
- The Mennello Museum of American Art
Landmarks & Notable Places
4- Jack Kerouac House Heritage
- S. Howard Atha House Heritage
- Thomas Picton Warlow, Sr., House Heritage
- John N. Huttig Estate Heritage
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About College Park
What are the main landmarks in College Park?
College Park keeps the Jack Kerouac House on Clouser Avenue, the rented bungalow where Kerouac was living when On the Road reached print and where he wrote The Dharma Bums. A residency programme keeps it in use. The S. Howard Atha House sits on West Princeton Street.
Peachtree Road carries the John N. Huttig Estate, an edge of the Lake Adair-Lake Concord Historic District, finished in 1935 to a James Gamble Rogers II design. Dubsdread has kept its golf course at the corner of Par Street and Edgewater Drive since the 1920s.
What is the history of College Park?
College Park grew out of citrus land, where John Ericsson planted a grove north of Princeton Street in the 1870s and put up its first known house. Then came the Great Freeze of 1894-1895. Building resumed in the boom of the 1920s, when Walter Rose platted Rosemere and named its streets for the universities, and H. Carl Dann laid out Dubsdread two years later.
Orlando pushed its city limit north to Par Street to take the district in. Ardsley Manor followed along Lake Silver in the 1950s.
Where is College Park?
College Park lies north-west of downtown Orlando, between Orange Blossom Trail and Orange Avenue, with Colonial Drive closing the southern edge.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in College Park?
Edgewater Drive: walking to the College Park shopfronts. Lake Ivanhoe: the shortest run into downtown Orlando. Dubsdread: a base at the golf course end of Par Street.
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Updated October 2026