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Lake Nona, Orlando — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lake Nona is a planned mixed-use community inside Orlando's city limits, seventeen square miles south-east of Orlando International Airport.
About Lake Nona
Where to stay in Lake Nona
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
A bed out here is an airport decision more than a sightseeing one. Lake Nona sits south-east of Orlando International Airport, which turns a dawn departure into a short drive rather than a run across the city, and it puts Eagle Creek Golf Club within the same few streets. The terminals are closer than Downtown Orlando.
Choose this side for the flight or the course; choose the centre if you would rather walk out to dinner.
About Lake Nona
What are the main landmarks in Lake Nona?
Eagle Creek Golf Club is the single entry the record holds for Lake Nona. Fairways stand in for monuments. Nothing older is listed across the seventeen square miles, since the ground was drawn up as one plan rather than accumulated street by street, which leaves the course to carry the landmark list on its own.
What is the history of Lake Nona?
Orlando grew outward, and this ground came in as a plan rather than a village. Lake Nona covers seventeen square miles that were mapped as one mixed-use scheme, the streets, the housing and the commercial parcels set down together instead of accreting over generations the way older Florida settlements did. Orlando's limits stretch to hold it.
That places the district in Orlando's modern expansion south-east, on the far side of Orlando International Airport from Downtown Orlando.
Where is Lake Nona?
Seventeen square miles sit inside the Orlando city limits, south-east of Orlando International Airport. Downtown Orlando lies north-west.
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Updated September 2026