The unique combination of the Ranch, the lake, nature and kicking back defines Creek Ranch.
We're happy to share our own home and Ranch that the Cocke/Black family has enjoyed since the early 1960's with you.
The property is available for rental to a single family, related group or company (up to 16). It is also available for a limited number of weeks of the year for individuals to rent by room.
Creek Ranch is an all inclusive vacation. Everything at the Ranch is included: riding lessons, trail riding, air boating, all of your meals, beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), even your own private chef.
Creek Ranch is located in the central Florida ranch and lake district.
NEARBY CITIES
- Orlando (1 hour)
- Tampa (1.5 hours)
- St. Petersburg (2 hours)
NEARBY Attractions
- Legoland (15 minutes)
- Disney World (45 minutes)
- Epcot Center (45 minutes)
- Universal Studios/Wizarding World of Harry Potter (1 hour)
- Kennedy Space Center (2 hours)
- Daytona International Speedway (2.5 hours)
- Earliest hunter gatherers arrive, hunting mastodons & mammoths
- Temperatures slowly rise to reach current climate
- Hunter gatherers form more tightly knit agrarian communities
- By 1500, over 100,000 Native American Indians live in Florida
- Ponce de Leon "discovers" Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth
- Two Seminole wars are fought.
Seminole leader Osceola surrenders
and is executed. - Florida becomes the 27th state to join the U.S.A.
- Haines City is founded
- Florida becomes America’s largest citrus producer
- Emory Cocke, an inventor from Atlanta, founds Suni-Citrus Products Company which reprocesses remnants of squeezed oranges into cattle feed at a Haines City factory
- Emory Cocke founds Creek Ranch, originally the property contains orange groves
- Bunkhouse is constructed
- Multiple frosts damage the orange crops. Creek Ranch converts these groves into additional pasture areas for cattle.
- Apollo 11, launched from Kennedy Space Center, lands on the moon. 30 years later, 7-time space walker Franklin Chang-Diaz stays at the Ranch.
- Walt Disney World Opens
- Bunkhouse Lodge (Main House) is redecorated
- Creek Ranch begins to make the private Ranch & home available for limited rentals