Greater Tampa Bay Area Information

Carrollwood Village Homeowners Associations have created a list of information resources that have been found to be helpful for both existing and new homeowners. The information published on this page is subject to change without notice as the information in each section is maintained by the respective resource. This information is periodically reviewed for accuracy and updated.

Family Fun

Adventure Island 813-987-5600 Airheads Trampoline Arena 813-247-4323 Information | 5072 West Linebaugh Avenue, Tampa, FL 33624 Big Cat Rescue 813-920-4130 Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 813-884-4FUN (4386) Celebration Station – Clearwater 727-791-1799 Information Carrollwood Cultural Center 813-922-8167 Information Cirque du Soleil 407-939-7600 Tickets Cracker Country Museum 813-627-4225 Disney Online 407-824-4321 Guest Information Disney’s Blizzard Beach 407-939-6244 US Guest Information 407-939-1289 Tickets Disney’s Downtown Area 407-939-6244 US Guest Information 407-939-1289 Tickets Disney Springs 407-939-6244 US Guest Information Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon 407-939-6244 US Guest Information 407-939-1289 Tickets Florida Aquarium 813-273-4000 Florida Trail Association 877-445-3352 Gamble Plantation Historic State Park 941-723-4536 Park Information Grand Prix – Tampa 813-977-6272 Information | Address: 14320 North Nebraska Avenue, Tampa FL 33613 Great Explorations For Kids 727-821-8992 Homosassa Springs Wildlife Park 352-628-5343 Park Information | Address: 4150 S Suncoast Boulevard, Homosassa, FL 34446 Horseback Riding – Tampa 813-264-1919 Riding Kennedy Space Center 321-449-4444 General Information 866-737-5235 Tickets | Address: SR 405, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 Lowry Park Zoo 813-935-8552 Mote Marine Aquarium 941-388-4441 Museum Of Science and Industry (MOSI) 813-987-6100 Q-ZAR Laser Tag and Arcade 813-933-6995 Information | Address: 7807 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa FL 33614 SeaWorld Adventure Park 800-327-2424 SkatePark of Tampa (SPoT) 813-621-6793 Sunken Gardens – St. Petersburg 727-551-3102 General Information The Glazer Children’s Museum 813-443-3861 Universal Studios 407-363-8000 General Information 407-224-4233 Guest Services 407-224-7840 Tickets Walt Disney World 407-938-3000 Weeki Wachee Springs 352-592-5656 General Information | Address: 6131 Commercial Way, Weeki Wachee, FL 34606

Government (County)

Government (State)

Historic Areas

Hospitals

Advent Health Carrollwood 813-932-2222 Advent Health Tampa 813-971-6000 All Children’s Hospital 727-898-7451 Bay Pines Veterans’ Hospital 727-398-6661 James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital 813-903-3600 Moffitt Cancer Center 888-663-3488 Pepin Heart Hospital 813-971-6000 Shriner’s Hospital for Children 813-972-2250 St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital 813-554-8500 St. Joseph’s Hospital 813-870-4000 St. Joseph’s Hospital North 813-443-7000 St. Joseph’s Hospital Women 813-879-4730 Tampa General Hospital – Level 1 Trauma Center 813-844-7000

Kid Stuff on the Web

Discovery Channel for Kids Shows, Video, Fun & Games, TV Schedule Disney Online ALL Things Disney Fisher-Price Playsite Toys, Games, Activities, Baby Gear, Parenting Guide and More Hotwheels Games, Videos and Cool Stuff NASA Kids Club NASA Kids Club NASA Students Grades 5-8 News, Mission and Multimedia NASA Students Grades 9-12 News, Missions and Multimedia NASA Students Grades K-4 News, Missions and Multimedia Nick Jr. Preschool Kids Games and Activities Nick.com Kids Games, Videos and Shows PBS Kids Educational Games, Videos and Activities Sesame Street Workshop The Nonprofit Organization Behind Sesame Street and So Much More The Cartoon Network Free Games, Online Video from Ben 10, Star Wars and Total Drama Action

Libraries

Maps & Aerial Views

Museums

Cracker Country Museum 813-627-4225 Documents, Preserves, and Interprets Rural Pioneer Florida History and Folklife During the Period of 1870-1912 Florida International Museum 727-341-7900 Florida Museum of Photographic Art 813-221-2222 Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center 813-627-4225 4537 Lowell Rd, Tampa FL 33618 Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art 727-712-5762 Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) 813-987-6000 Ringling Museum 941-359-5700 Information | Address: 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243 St. Petersburg Museum of History 727-894-1052 Tampa Firefighters Museum 813-964-6828 | Address: 720 East Zack Street, Tampa FL 33602-4002 Tampa Museum of Art 813-274-8130 Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum 727-937-0686 The Dali Museum 727-823-3767 | Address: One Dali Boulevard, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 The Henry B. Plant Museum 813-254-1891 The Museum of Fine Arts 727-896-2667 The Tampa Bay History Museum 813-228-0097 USF Contemporary Art Museum 813-974-4133 Ybor City State Museum 813-247-6323

News Resources

Organizations & Clubs

Bob Sierra Family YMCA 813-962-3220 Carrollwood Area Business Association (CABA) 813-264-0006 Carrollwood Community Chorus maryjo@carrollwoodcenter.org Carrollwood Cultural Center Book Club jakerns@tampabay.rr.com Carrollwood Village Swim Team (CVST) 813-961-1368 Emerald Greens Recreation Center Carrollwood Winds winds@carrollwoodcenter.org 813-922-8167 Emerald Greens Condo Resort 813-961-1381 Friends of the Carrollwood Cultural Center (FCCC) 813-269-1310 Tampa Bay United Soccer Club 813-792-7757 New Horizons Band at Carrollwood Cultural Center 813-922-8167 Northdale Golf & Tennis Club 813-962-0428 Performing Arts Carrollwood Cultural Center 813-922-8167 Sierra Club of Tampa 813-741-3054 Suncoast Native Plant Society 813-986-6485 Tampa Audubon Society 813-839-2742 Tampa Bay Cycle 813-974-9799 Tampa Bay Koi and Water Garden 813-252-7881 Tampa Bay Newcomers 813-335-0547 Tampa Bay Newcomers was founded in 1952 to extend the hand of friendship for women who are new to the Tampa Bay Area. The club is both a social and community service organization. Monthly luncheons are held throughout the Tampa Bay area and feature local speakers Tampa Bay Runners 813-251-2407 Tampa Bay Snow Skiers and Boarders 813-431-4959 VISTA Gardens 813-240-9406 Women Authors Book Club debdoliner@gmail.com

Performing Arts

American Stage Theatre Company 727-823-1600 Founded in 1977, the company’s mission is to create the most satisfying live theatre in the Tampa Bay area, accessible to all members of the community. Arts Council of Hillsborough County 813-276-8250 To develop, nurture, coordinate and promote performing and visual arts in Hillsborough County, and to contract for artistic services all for the enjoyment, education, cultural enrichment and benefit of the citizens of Hillsborough County. Carrollwood Cultural Center 813-922-8167 t’s where a 5-year-old girl discovers that she’s an artist, a 70-year-old man discovers he’s a musician, a 35-year-old woman learns ballet and a family grows stronger by sharing the stage together. It’s where Oliver found a family, a Music Man traded swindling for love, a humbled Movie Star danced in the rain, and Quasimodo learned he is worthy of love. The Carrollwood Cultural Center is much more than a building with concerts, comedy shows, and theatrical productions. It’s the place where strangers become friends and friends become family. Carrollwood Players 813-265-4000 We are the Carrollwood Players, Tampa’s oldest community theatre company. Established in 1981, Carrollwood Players, a not-for-profit organization 501(c) (3), has been providing quality entertainment for the Tampa Bay area since its inception. Staging everything from tense drama to bedroom farce to popular musicals, Carrollwood Players offers something for everyone’s tastes. Eckherd Theater Company 727-712-2743 Eckerd Theater Company (ETC) is a company of professional artists, educators and administrators under the umbrella of the Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute, the education center for Ruth Eckerd Hall at the Richard B. Baumgardner Center in Clearwater, Florida Florida Orchestra 727-892-3337 The mission of The Florida Orchestra is to enrich the life of the Tampa Bay area as it inspires, entertains and educates a wide and diverse audience with the unique experience of live symphonic music, ensuring that future generations will continue to enjoy this legacy that so magnificently celebrates the human spirit. Gulfport Community Players 727-322-0316 We are a small group of ordinary people that all possess one charactistic: the LOVE of LIVE THEATER. Improv Comedy Theater 813-864-4000 Information | Address: 1600 E 8th Avenue, C-112, Tampa FL 33605 Duke Energy Center For The Arts – The Mahaffey Theater 727-300-2000 Ruth Eckerd Hall 727-791-7400 Box Office Spanish Lyric Theatre 813-936-0217 For over a decade SLT Productions has expanded to include cabaret style revues as well as full scale Broadway productions for touring purposes. SLT continues to increase it’s audience share as it increases it’s markets outside of Tampa. Tampa Opera 813-229-7827 | Ticket Information / Now entering its 15th season, Opera Tampa is the resident opera company of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Opera Tampa produces and presents the highest caliber of grand opera, complete with the spectacle and grandeur that makes opera “the queen of the performing arts.” The elaborate, full-scale productions feature international performers, the full Opera Tampa Orchestra and the 50-60-member Opera Tampa Chorus, all under the direction of world-renowned composer-conductor Anton Coppola. Opera Tampa performs in The Center’s spectacular Carol Morsani Hall, which was designed as a classic horseshoe opera house in the style of the grand opera houses of Europe. The remarkable, near perfect acoustics in Morsani Hall were designed by Russell Johnson, one of today’s finest acousticians. Tampa Theatre 813-274-8286 Box Office 813-274-8981 Event Information The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay 813-974-7726 The Master Chorale is committed to advancing the art of choral music by performing great works of the past, commissioning and performing new literature and sharing the joy and power of choral music with new and existing audiences and singers. The Straz Center for the Performing Arts (TBPAC) 813-229-7827 Box Office 813-222-1001 Event Information The West Coast Players Community 727-437-2363 West Coast Players was founded in 1994 in Oldsmar by a group of actors interested in providing live theatre to the community.

Recreational Trails

Trail Across the United States TrailLink.com is a FREE service of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a non-profit dedicated to assisting local communities in converting unused railroad corridors into trails. Discover more than 30,000 miles of bike trails, walking trails, equestrian trails, and hiking and running trails including interactive trail maps, trail descriptions, photos, reviews and more. Florida Trail Association 877-445-3352 877-HIKE-FLA Hillsborough County Trails 813-987-6240 Pinellas County Trail 727-549-6099 Upper Tampa Bay Trail 813-272-5920

Schools

School District of Hillsborough County (Main Page) 813-272-4000 | Address: 901 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa FL 33602 Ben Hill Middle School 813-975-9325 | Address: 5200 Ehrlich Road, Tampa, FL 33624 Carrollwood Elementary School 813-975-7640 | Address: 3516 McFarland Road, Tampa FL 33618 Chamberlain High School 813-975-7677 | Address: 9401 N Boulevard, Tampa FL 33612 Essrig Elementary School 813-975-7307 | Address: 13131 Lynn Road, Tampa FL 33624 Gaither High School 813-975-9340 | Address: 16200 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa FL 33618 Sickles High School 813-631-4742 | Address: 7950 Gunn Highway, Tampa FL 33626

Colleges & Universities

Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU) 386-481-2000 | Address: 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard, Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Florida Agriculture and Mechnical University (FAMU) 850-599-3000 | Address: 1700 Lee Hall Drive, 304 Foote-Hilyer Tallahassee, FL 32307 Florida State University (FSU) 850-644-6200 | Address: 600 W College Avenue, Tallahassee FL 32306 Hillsborough Community College (HCC) 877-736-2575 | Address: Dale Mabry Campus, 4001 W Tampa Bay Boulevard, Tampa FL 33614 St. Petersburg College 727-341-4772 | Address: 6605 5th Avenue N, St Petersburg FL 33710 University of Central Florida (UCF) 407-823-2000 | Address: 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando FL 32816 University of Florida Gators (UF) 352-392-3261 | Address: 201 Criser Hall, Gainesville FL 32611 University of Miami (UM) 305-284-4323 | Address: Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33124 University of South Florida (USF) 813-974-2011 | Address: 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa FL 33620 University of Tampa (UT) 813-253-3333 | Address: 401 W Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa FL 33606

Utilities

Weather

Spectrum Bay News 9 Weather 727-329-2300 Receptionist Fox 13 Weather 813-876-1313 Switchboard ALL Departments National Hurricane Center (NHC) EMAIL: Public Relations Officer at | nhc.public.affairs@noaa.gov National Weather Service Watchs and Warnings for Florida 813-645-2323 | Daniel Noah NWS Local Contact | EMAIL: daniel.noah@noaa.gov TBO.com Weather Center 813-259-7711 Main Number 813-221-5788 Newsr

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