Two Major League clubs hold spring training within twenty minutes of us, in ballparks small enough that a cheap seat is still a good one. The Blue Jays have been coming to Dunedin for fifty straight years and the Phillies to Clearwater for eighty. If you’ve never done it, a March afternoon at one of…
There are dedicated pickleball courts about a mile from our Largo place with a friendly morning group who’ll let you join in, and four serious indoor clubs within twenty minutes — one with a bar, one with a sauna and cold plunge. Bring paddles, or don’t; most places lend them.
Both of our places sit on protected water, and the county has mapped the whole coast into an official paddling trail system. You can be in a mangrove tunnel twenty minutes after leaving the door — or have a kayak delivered to the driveway and never load a roof rack at all.
A trap and skeet club fifteen minutes from our Seminole place, a multi-discipline club that’s been running since 1966, two well-run indoor ranges, and one of Florida’s best sporting clays courses about forty-five minutes north. All of them rent guns and teach beginners, so you don’t need to travel with anything.
There’s a PGA Tour course twenty-five minutes north of us and a municipal course two miles from our Largo door. In between sits a dozen more — some of the best value public golf in Florida, playable year round. Here’s how to pick.