Arcadia & DeSoto County

You don’t earn the title of Florida’s Best Hometown Dining unless you know a thing or two about recipes. In DeSoto County, that’s the recipe for a perfect travel package.

It starts with the right ingredients: Like variety the whole family will love, from fun under the sun – boating, swimming, canoeing and camping – to the city delights of treasure hunting in Florida’s Best Antiquing Town, feasting your eyes on our historic architecture and feasting on our down home fare.

Come for a day, the week-end or a whole week. Stay in a branded hotel, historic inn or b&b. Take an exciting airboat ride and see wildlife along the Peace River. Or perhaps you’ll find a two-thousand-year-old shark tooth from our fossil-rich river beds on an easy paced downriver canoe trip. Maybe you’d enjoy Florida’s oldest rodeo, or to take an orange grove tour or visit an exotic animal refuge. Life is sunny side up, here in a natural paradise and a friendly city steeped in history and charm.

With our menu of options to find the just-right blend of fun and relaxation, and always unbeatable hospitality, that’s exactly to your taste.