Mary Erickson
Broker Associate
Realty Executives Oceanside
On this week's edition of where the locals go, I'll be talking about Baseline Golf Course.
At Baseline Golf Course, you can enjoy the areas best maintained golf course. The golfing conditions are pristine on a beautifully landscaped course. And the best part? No tee time is necessary - just walk in.
Current Rates
The current rates to golf are as follows:
9 Holes Walking - $14.00
9 Holes with Cart - $18.00
18 Holes Walking - $22.00
18 Holes with Cart - $29.00
Junior Golfer (17&Under) - $10.00
Non-Player Riding Fee - $5.00
Driving Range
For the driving range, the rates are:
Small Basket (Approximately 35 Balls) - $5.00
Medium Basket (65 Balls) - $6.50
Large Basket (115 Balls) - $9.25
Course Layout
Tuesday Night League
Starting April 20th, Baseline Golf Course has done a Tuesday Night Golf League at 6:00 pm. It's $18 which includes 9 holes with a cart, a free drink and you get entered into the prize pool, including prizes for individuals and teams.
If you're interested in visiting or contacting Baseline Golf Course, here is their information!
(352) 245-4414
9000 SE 58th Ave, Ocala, FL 34480, USA
If you're interested in buying or selling in the Ocala area, be sure to contact me, Mary Erickson!
Mary Erickson
REALTOR ®
Phone: 386-444-1924
Email: MaryErickson@RealtyExecutives.com
Website: Over55Ocala.com
On this week's edition of where the locals go, I'll be talking about Canyons Zipline.
Canyons Zipline offers a multitude of different adventures sure to be full of fun! There are many group discounts available, but they vary on group size and the date of the visit. Full tours run every twenty minutes from 8:40 a.m. until 5:00 p.m, and Express tours are offered at various times throughout the week. Special accommodations can be made for larger groups.
Adventures by Air
Big Cliff Canyon
This is the most popular tour! It is the only tour that takes you flying over Lost Spring Lake, in the massive Big Cliff Canyon. This course includes 9 zip line flights through the canyons, 2 sky bridges and a unique ending to the experience with a rappel from the last platform. After zipping at heights over 130 feet and individual zips as long 1,100 feet, you’ll leave feeling like you can conquer the world! This course costs $99.99 and lasts about 2.5-3 hours.
Treetop Express
This course includes 5 zip line flights and 2 sky bridges through Sky High Canyon. This amazing tour combines a small part of the Big Cliff Canyon course and part of the (all new) Sky High course to make an exciting adventure that must be experienced to be believed! The first 2 zips are low and slow and the others get higher, faster and longer, stretching to 1,150’ long and 155’ over the canyon floor! The last zip of the tour takes you sky high over Gator Lake at an incredible speed. This course costs $69.99 and lasts about 1.5-2 hours.
Sky High Tour
The highest heights in Florida can be found on this high-flying aerial adventure that takes you soaring through our Sky High Canyon! This newest addition to our park packs huge thrills into a small budget. All 3 zip lines on this tour tower above our other lines! The longest line stretches out across the entire Sky High Canyon at a staggering 1,150 feet long and 155 feet off the ground! The final zip of this tour will have you soaring over Gator Lake at an incredible speed! This tour costs $44.99 and lasts about 1 hour.
Full Moon Night Zip Tours
Are you ready to fly into the night? This is zipping at its finest and something that no other thrill ride can match! You’ll travel through the night with glo sticks to light the way. This tour includes 5 zip lines and 2 sky bridges (ground school is also included, of course). The night will be complete when you take a glorious flight over the moonlit water of Gator Lake! This tour costs $89.99 and lasts about 1.5 hours.
Adventures by Land
Horseback Tours
This is not your typical horseback tour! There are elevation changes of 100' or more that you won't find anywhere else in Florida. This tour is a scenic horseback ride throughout The Canyons park. This experience offers amazing views of both the Big Cliff Canyon and the Sky High Canyon. The ride takes you down into the canyon and alongside our lakes, scenic vistas, through the woods and beside the enormous cliff walls. This tour costs $60.00 and lasts about 1.5 hours.
Horseback Ride Fireside
Get to know the horses during a MEET and TREAT session. Take pictures, give treats and get to know your horse before your ride. After making a wonderful connection with your horse, you can take them on a one-of-a-kind sunset ride through Big Cliff Canyon to the fireside hideaway where you can enjoy a glass of wine and smores while sitting fireside by the lake. This attraction lasts approximately 2 hours.
Gem Mining
Sift through dirt and rock to discover treasures that are yours to keep! Finding treasure is a great adventure at any age! Prices start at just $6.00 and Gems are GUARANTEED to be found in every bag!
No reservations are necessary for this activity.
Adventures by Water
Kayak Tours
Kayak tours are a scenic paddling tour through Big Cliff Canyon on Lost Spring Lake. It’s a new way to experience the most unique property in Florida! This relaxing and scenic lake tour will have you paddling your way under zips, and around immense cliff walls! As you peacefully glide across our vast spring fed lake, the guide will point out fossils and other interesting artifacts from long ago that make this property unlike any other in Florida. This tour costs $45.00 and lasts about 1.5 hours.
If you're interested in buying or selling in the Ocala area, be sure to contact me, Mary Erickson!
Mary Erickson
REALTOR ®
Phone: 386-444-1924
Email: MaryErickson@RealtyExecutives.com
Website: Over55Ocala.com
On this week's edition of where the locals go, I'll be talking about the Appleton Museum of Art.
Opened in 1987, the Appleton is located in Central Florida and is home to an extraordinary permanent collection of over 18,000 objects, plus an outdoor sculpture walk and garden, and a wide variety of temporary exhibitions and special events throughout the year.
The 81,610 square-foot museum is both classical and contemporary, with clean lines and stately Italian travertine marble. The original building surrounds an idyllic interior courtyard and fountain.
The Appleton is the focal point of the Appleton Cultural Center, a complex east of downtown Ocala on Silver Springs Blvd./State Road 40, which includes the Ocala Civic Theatre, and is one of six College of Central Florida campuses.
The Appleton Museum is open
Tuesday - Saturday: 10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday: 12 - 5 PM
Monday: CLOSED
Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for youth (6-17), and free for children 5 and under. The museum also offers a variety of discounts for seniors, university students, educators, and more.
The Appleton Museum has 8 permanent exhibits: Florida Artists, Equine, European, Pre-Columbian, Asian, African, Modern and Contemporary, and Maritime. Some of their current sections are paintings from Kristin Herzog, Alison Saar, and the Legacy of Arthur I. Appleton. They have 4 upcoming exhibits, including
A Breeze Through Fertile Gardens: Paintings and Drawings by Andrew M. Grant, Heart of the Horse: Photographs by Juliet van Otteren, Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau, and Garden Party: Botanical Paintings by Susan Martin. The Appleton Museum even occassionally has student exhibits!
The Appleton Museum has many education and studio art programs. Beginning in June, in-person activities will resume while they continue to offer a robust online schedule of workshops and programs for all ages.
This year, the Appleton’s annual Summer Art Camp will be completely virtual and free, featuring eight unique weeks of themed camps, each with five activities and three live Zoom classes with an art instructor. A materials list will be provided in advance of each camp, and activity instructions will be provided just prior to the first day of each camp. Pre-registration required via Eventbrite. Zoom session login details will be sent in your email confirmation. For a Virtual Summer Art Camp PDF brochure, click here.
The Artspace remains closed currently, but will reopen June 1. Also beginning in June, in-person activities will resume, including the Museum & Me Pre-K Program.
Educators can plan field trips to the museum, and there is even a Bus Reimbursment Program for students visiting from schools in Marion County.
Drawing In The Gallery - June 1 & 15, 1 - 3 PM
Facilitated by artist Vanessa Fuller Brown, this is a self-guided session with optional instruction. You can bring your own materials or borrow pencils and paper from the Visitor Services desk. No registration is necessary and you can drop-in at any time during the two-hour session. Visitors may use graphite (like a #2 pencil); no charcoal, conté crayon, colored pencils or paint of any kind are allowed in the museum galleries. Sketch book size must not exceed 14 x 17 in.; no easels are permitted in the galleries.
For questions, contact AppletonMuseum@cf.edu.
Free First Saturday - June 5, 10 AM - 5 PM
Practice the art of staycation by visiting the Appleton on Free First Saturday, which means no admission fee! You can also kick back and enjoy the beautiful outdoor spaces with large-scale sculpture (perfect for selfies!)
Artist's Outlook
June 17, 7 - 8:15 PM - Maggie Taylor
July 15, 7 - 8:15 PM - Kendra North
August 19, 7 - 8:15 PM - Andrew Grant
Join the museum on Zoom every third Thursday for a series of talks where individual artists speak about the inspirations, processes and history behind their work. All conversations will be hosted on Zoom and can be accessed using your mobile device or desktop computer. You don’t have to use your camera or speak, but there will be an opportunity to ask the artist questions.
Meeting ID: 302 190 0088
Passcode: 352352
If you're interested in buying or selling in the Ocala area, be sure to contact me, Mary Erickson!
Mary Erickson
REALTOR ®
Phone: 386-444-1924
Email: MaryErickson@RealtyExecutives.com
Website: Over55Ocala.com
On this week's edition of where the locals go, I'll be talking about the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing.
The Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing is located at 13700 SW 16th Ave, Ocala, Florida, just off Interstate 75. Opened in 1976, the museum chronicles the history of the sport of drag racing. Don Garlits has been dubbed the “King of the Dragsters,” and could be considered the patriarch of Top Fuel Drag Racing. Don Garlits began racing in 1950 and scored his first major victory in 1955. His first NHRA National event win came in Top Fuel at the 1963 Winter Nationals in Pomona, California. Don has won the prestigious NHRA U.S. nationals a record 8 times. His four decades of Drag Racing have filled the pages of seven books.
Some 90 racing cars can be seen in the Drag Race building and an additional 50 vehicles are in the Antique Car building. The museum is home to the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Inductees include Art Arfons, Sydney Allard, Zora Arkus-Duntov, Ray Godman, Raymond Beadle, Shirley Muldowney, Kenny Bernstein, Don Schumacher, and Connie Glen Swingle.
The Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing and International Drag Racing Hall of Fame is open every day from 9am-5pm. They have just fewer than 300 cars between 2 buildings. The average tour takes 2-3 hours and all pictures are welcome. Spread throughout the two buildings is an amazing collection of hemi engines, flathead engines, rare manifolds, and carburetors that have been restored by Don Garlits himself. Pricing for admission varies, and you can find that information here!
On November 6-7, The Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing will be hosting their 34th Annual Show and Swap Meet. The 2021 Event will be a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of 1971 Model Cars with Tim Wellborn. The show is hosted by First Coast AMC, Brat Pack, Mighty Mopars of Orlando, and Mopar Muscle of North Florida. The show will go on as scheduled rain or shine. This year there will be Dry Camping on the museum grounds. These spaces are limited so make sure if this is something you are interested in you reserve your spot as soon as possible. Spectators Parking for the show will be $5.00 per car. A donation from Spectator Parking will go to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Explorer Post.
If you're interested in buying or selling in the Ocala area, be sure to contact me, Mary Erickson!
Mary Erickson
REALTOR ®
Phone: 386-444-1924
Email: MaryErickson@RealtyExecutives.com
Website: Over55Ocala.com
Sholom Park was born in the hearts of Sidney and Ina Colen. The grand opening and ribbon cutting was celebrated October 17, 2004. Sholom Park was designed as a place to find inner peace and to thrive in the Central Florida climate. Paved walkways meander throughout the park, winding through mature oaks, hickories, sweet gums and long leaf pine trees, as they allow guests to move from one trail or feature to the next.
There are many different areas of Sholom Park to explore. You can even view a live feed of Sholom Park right here!
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If the beautiful views in Sholom Park weren't enough, the many events the park puts on sends it over the top! There's free yoga in the park every Saturday from 9-10 AM. You just have to bring your own yoga mat. The park also does Sunset Cinemas, Park After Dark, Poetry for the Park, and so much more!
If you're interested in buying or selling in the Ocala area, be sure to contact me, Mary Erickson!
Mary Erickson
REALTOR ®
Phone: 386-444-1924
Email: MaryErickson@RealtyExecutives.com
Website: Over55Ocala.com
