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 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