West Central Florida
West Central Florida is in the state of Florida in the United States. It includes Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee Pasco, Pinellas, Polk and Sumter counties.
Regions
Cities
- 🌍 Bartow
- 🌍 Bradenton
- 🌍 Brandon
- 🌍 Brooksville
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Bushnell
- 🌍 Clearwater
- 🌍 Crystal River
- 🌍
Dover
- 🌍
Ellenton
- 🌍 Fort Meade
- 🌍 Haines City
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Inverness
- 🌍 Lakeland
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Odessa
- 🌍 Palm Harbor
- 🌍 Plant City
- 🌍 Polk City
- 🌍 Port Richey
- 🌍
Riverview
- 🌍 Saint Petersburg
- 🌍 St. Pete Beach
- 🌍 Tampa - the largest city in West Central Florida.
- 🌍 Tarpon Springs
- 🌍 Wildwood
- 🌍 Winter Haven
- 🌍 Zephyrhills
Other destinations
Understand
Get in
By plane
The largest airport in the region is Tampa International Airport (TPA IATA) on the western side of Tampa. TIA serves dozens of destinations, with daily flights to most major cities in the US and almost every major airline hub. The Tampa-Atlanta route carries the most passengers of any route with nearly 3 times as many passengers as the second largest destination Charlotte. The largest airlines in/out of TIA are American, Delta, and Southwest.
Directly across the bay and just 10 miles from TIA is St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport (PIE IATA), which served mostly by budget airlines and used for private aviation. It is a hub for Allegiant Air which flies to about two dozen small airports throughout the Midwest & Northeast. As of February 2011, it is also served by: Frontier Airlines to Milwaukee & Omaha (both seasonal); Air Transat to Halifax & Toronto (both seasonal); Sunwing Airlines to Toronto; Vision Air to Gulfport-Biloxi; & Locair to Marsh Harbour & Treasure Cay.
Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (SRQ IATA) is located between Sarasota and Bradenton and is served by American, Delta, JetBlue, and United. About half of the routes are seasonal.
Get around
See
State parks
- 🌍 Crystal River Archaeological State Park, 3400 N. Museum Point, ☎ +1 352 795-3817. 8AM to sundown. A National Historic Landmark. Next to the Crystal River Preserve State Park.
- 🌍 Crystal River Preserve State Park, 3266 N. Sailboat Avenue, ☎ +1 352 563-0450. 8AM to sundown. Next to the Crystal River Archaeological State Park
- 🌍 Dade Battlefield Historic State Park, 7200 CR 603, Bushnell, ☎ +1 352 793-4781. 8AM to sundown.
- Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, 3708 Patten Avenue, Ellenton, ☎ +1 941 723-4536. 8AM to sunset.
- Lake Manatee State Park, 20007 State Road 64 East, Bradenton, ☎ +1 941 741-3028. 8AM to sunset.
- Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site, 955 Bayshore Drive, Terra Ceia, ☎ +1 941 723-4536. 8AM to sunset.