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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.
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Where to stay in Lake Nona
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
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.
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Eagle Creek
The Eagle Creek Golf Club end of Lake Nona, for anyone whose day starts on a tee.Find hotels in Eagle Creekdawn flights out of Orlando International AirportLake Nona airport side
The Lake Nona ground closest to Orlando International Airport, a short drive from the terminals.Find hotels in Lake Nona airport sidewalking out to dinner rather than driving north-westDowntown Orlando
Orlando's walkable core, north-west beyond the airport, when a car-first district does not suit.Find hotels in Downtown OrlandoHotel 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
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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What is the best area to stay in Lake Nona?
Eagle Creek: Eagle Creek Golf Club mornings. Lake Nona airport side: dawn flights out of Orlando International Airport. Downtown Orlando: walking out to dinner rather than driving north-west.
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Updated October 2026