Mead Garden

Mead Garden is a 47.6 acre park that offers a variety of facilities including an amphitheater, butterfly garden, boardwalk, and a bike trail. The park is large enough to encompass several different ecosystems and is an ideal place for nature lovers.

Mead Garden has been a staple in Winter Park since the 1930s. In recent decades, the garden had fallen into disrepair, and it wasn't until 2003 that a concerted effort was made to preserve it with the formation of the nonprofit organization Friends of Mead Garden.

Today its name might be different, recently having announced the shift to being called simply Mead Botanical Garden Inc., but the members' mission is still the same: to raise awareness and funds to restore the garden and preserve its "wild" nature. In order to teach the next generation the value of not only Mead Garden but the entire environment that surrounds them, Mead is offering seven weeklong nature summer camps.

There are four camp divisions: Nature Camp for ages 5 -11; Young Naturalist Camp for ages 9-13 where campers learn how nature works; Earth Defenders Camp for ages 9-13 where campers learn how to work with nature; and Wild for Biology for ages 14-16.