Discovering Winter Park

By GERRY BARKER
Splash Magazines

Splash Magazines readers know Pam and I are fans of Amtrak, and enjoy taking the Silver Meteor from West Palm Beach to New York every chance we get.  And every time we go, the train makes one stop where we've always wanted to step off and explore: Winter Park, Florida.

From the historic train depot to the wide green spaces of the idyllic Central Park that it fronts, the town looks like something out of a storybook or a Norman Rockwell painting. One of our friends, an ex-resident of New York, said it reminds her of Willoughby, the fictional 19th century town featured in a classic episode of "The Twilight Zone." And she's right.

Recently, looking for a weekend escape with our granddaughter, Cate, before school started, we decided it was high time to take the Amtrak and visit Winter Park.

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