Get to know the greatest town in Florida, College Park.
Whether you come for the family-friendly streets, the unique homes, the local businesses, or the proximity to downtown Orlando, there are as many reasons to love the 32804 as there are people who call it home!
College Park is centrally located in the heart of Orlando, with a population of just over 17,000 residents that offers a small-town feel. This beautiful community features many restaurant options, diners, coffee shops, its very own Publix which has been running for nearly 50 years, boutique shops, and more, most sit right in the middle of College Park on Edgewater Drive. Residents and visitors love that they can walk just a few blocks to enjoy some of these offerings, as well as lakes, parks, golf, and more.
Dubsdread Golf Course as been active for almost 100 years, and includes an award-winning Central Florida favorite restaurant “Tap Room at Dubsdread” which has recently been featured by Kayak and Open Table as one of the top 25 hidden gem restaurants worth traveling the world for. A long list of family-owned restaurants are included in the makeup of this small-town feel community to include a few Infusion Tea, Tornatore’s Pizzeria, Shakers American Cafe, College Park Cafe, and many more! The list also includes larger brand names for those needing some of their favorites from Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Graffiti Junktion, and others. There are so many options for dining and such here in College Park and those options coupled with the residents and families and the walkability really make this community one of a kind.
College Park also features many options for Churches and Schools including some: Princeton Elementary and Lake Silver Elementary Schools, Monarch Learning Academy, College Park Middle, Bishop Moore High Catholic School, and our Edgewater High School 2019 Football State Runner Up. Several Pre-K and Private Elementary options are available which give parents the flexibility to accommodate their children’s education all right here in the community.
This community has so much to offer, the ability to continue to build relationships and see familiar faces all over the community gives it the small-town feel within the Orlando City limits. If you are exploring College Park as a possible destination for yourself or your family I urge you to spend some time on this page getting to know the residents and businesses as I promise it will bring you home.
“I genuinely love running into neighbors on the streets— at the grocery store, at our local parks, at school pickup— if I step out of my house, I’m usually lucky enough to come across a friendly face!”
Jack Kerouac House in College Park, Orlando
Fast Facts About College Park Orlando
Citrus grower John Ericsson built the first known home in College Park at 19 West Princeton, in the middle of what was then an 80-acre citrus grove. Other settlers soon followed, especially after the arrival of the South Florida Railroad in 1880, but the Great Freeze during the winter of 1894-1895 halted growth around town for over a decade. New residents began arriving in large numbers during the real estate boom of the 1920s.
A small town itself, College Park has different subdivisions: Walter Rose's Rosemere (established 1921), H. Carl Dann's Dubsdread (established 1923), J.P. Holbrook's Edgewater Heights (established 1924), and Frank L. Anderson's Anderson Park also (established 1924).
Famed author Jack Kerouac started writing The Dharma Bums while living in a College Park cottage from 1957 to 1958 — the same period during which On the Road was published. Today, The Kerouac Project gives a rotating lineup of up-and-coming authors the chance to write and sleep in the same historic home.
Orlando is one of many U.S. cities with a College Park neighborhood, but in Orlando, it’s because numerous streets are named after colleges, not our proximity to a college! Drive up and down our streets and you might even find your own alma mater!
College Park has a current population of 12,071.