1. Lake Eola Park: This downtown Orlando centerpiece offers 43 acres for exploration and recreation, including fountains, a walking path, playgrounds, swans to feed and swan shaped paddle boats and gondolas (for a slight fee.)
2. Harry P. Leu Gardens: Admission is free on Mondays. Guests can enjoy three miles of walkways, rose gardens, a butterfly garden, ancient oak trees, and more.
3. Ocala National Forest: A great place to experience natural Florida. The Florida Trail is a popular hike, where you can view hardwood forests, swamps, springs, and prairies. You can also canoe, picnic, hike and more.
4. Kelly Park: This park offers over 248 acres of outdoor fun and excitement! A crystal clear spring is the focus of this park, with water sports, including tubing, and rock climbing available!
Orlando’s rich history also makes its museums a can’t miss experience. Plus, they’re open Free to the public
5. Cornell Fine Arts Museum: This museum showcases over 6,000 art pieces ranging from the Renaissance to the Baroque period. Art lovers of all ages will not want to miss one of the oldest collections in all of Florida.
6. Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: Home to the most comprehensive collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany. There is also an extensive American Pottery collection, as well as 19th and 20th century paintings collection. Admission is free on Fridays.
7. Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida: An informative center dedicated to remembering the millions if people that were lost during the rule of Nazi Germany.
8. Fort Christmas Historical Museum & Park: Visit the full size replica of Fort Christmas, including seven restored pioneer homes and showing pioneer life from the 1870s through the 1930s. Key themes are homesteading, cattle, citrus, hunting, fishing and trapping. There are even more free things to do in Orlando, Florida!
9. Downtown Disney Marketplace: Explore the World of Disney store, which is an experience in and of itself. Also visit the Lego Imagination Center, where your kids can enjoy the free Lego building stations and nearby playground.
10. Disney’s Boardwalk: Stroll along Disney’s boardwalk for a charming step back in time, complete with water views and street entertainers.
11. The Town of Celebration: Visit this Disney-made town where you can adrmire the gorgeous houses, well-groomed yards and magic of Disney living. Depending on when you visit, you may see machine generated snow or falling leaves.
12. Old Town: On Saturday nights a free rock-n-roll concert and a parade of 300 vintage cars are offered.

If you are looking forward for some more animal destinations then visit the Lowry park zoo where you can have a glance of almost 2000 animals. Recently the Lowry Park Zoo has been awarded as the number one Zoo in the world. Further to add to your excitement the Zoo does not merely have exhibits of animals but you have a wide range of rides as well as shows.

If you love fishes and have a dream to swim along with them; then here is one of the best places waiting to fulfill this dream of yours. For this you need to visit Florida aquarium and you can have a dive with the sharks and dolphins. The Florida aquarium is a cool way to see the inner world of water. The aquarium has almost ten thousand sea plants at its exhibit.

Do not forget the beaches in Florida; they are among the most well maintained beaches and the North beach has the maximum tourist. It is one of the best swimming area, a day is worth spending at the beach sunbathing and relaxing. To my knowledge visiting the beach is one of the best options to feel relaxing. Further to add spice to the mixture there is Fort De Soto Park known for its beautiful, scenic, natural setting and the local wildlife. Another thing which you cannot afford to miss is the Walt Disney World resort, it is the large complex having several theme and water parks and not to forget the magic kingdom. SO if you visiting Florida one destination not to be forgotten is the Walt Disney world resort.

About 45% of the cypress swamp (which is not a swamp at all but a group of mangrove islands, hardwood hammocks, islands of slash pine, prairie and marshes) is protected preserve. Great bald cypress trees are nearly gone from the area, as lumbering and other industries took their toll before the preserve was established. These days, dwarf pond cypress trees fill the area.

You’ll find 31 miles of the Florida National Scenic Trail, maintained by the Florida Trail Association, within Big Cypress National Preserve. From the southern terminus, which can be accessed by car via Loop Rd, the trail runs 8.3 miles north to the Tamiami Trail, passing the Big Cypress Visitor Center. There are two quite primitive campsites with water wells along the trail. Off-road vehicles are permitted to cross, but not to operate on, the FNST. For the less adventurous, there’s the short Tree Snail Hammock Nature, Trail, off Loop Rd.

On-road vehicles can drive on Loop Rd, a potholed dirt road, and Turner River Rd, which shoots straight north off the Tamiami Trail. There are wildlife-viewing opportunities along the entire stretch of Turner River Rd, especially in the Turner River Canal, which runs along the east side of it. The road leads to the northern area of the preserve where off-road vehicles are permitted.