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Ozona Florida, an “Old Florida” Waterfront & Golf-cart Friendly Community
September 7th, 2008 categories: Ozona Homes
Ozona FL offers “Old Florida” small-town living with the added benefit of being part of a larger, surrounding community with fabulous amenities. Sometimes it seems that this eclectic waterfront community likes to keep itself a secret from the mainstreamers of Palm Harbor. One thing’s for sure, having an Ozona address unofficially puts you into the insiders club.
Part of unincorporated Palm Harbor, Ozona is not quite a city, yet there’s certainly more to love here than your average neighborhood.
Hugging the Gulf of Mexico, Ozona sits just south of Tarpon Springs and Crystal Beach and north of Dunedin -and stops to the East at Alternate 19 (aka Palm Harbor Blvd.). Boaters relish in it’s surrounding waters leading to St. Joseph Sound and the open Gulf of Mexico. There’s Sutherland Bayou to the north and Smith Bayou to the south, and that’s Lungreen Cove just north of the dash after Ozona in the picture above. While Ozona is a small community of about 1100 people, it supports 5 marinas for those that don’t have the luxury of a dock in the backyard.
Ozona is a golf-cart friendly community where you’ll find parents cruising their kids to school in style. There’s also the annual Christmas golf-cart parade, with the carts fully decorated to the nines. If actually playing golf is what you’re after, Innisbrook’s four championship courses are laid out on over 600 acres about a mile up the road in Palm Harbor.
If you were to search for Ozona homes, you’d find them from the low $200’s for a funky cottage up to the $2M+ range. The cute and somewhat dusty downtown “main” street (Orange Street) brings you back to yesteryear, and here you’ll find casual restaurants including Molly Goodhead’s and The Ozona Pig. There’s also the Ozona Blue Grilling Company just down the road, where you can have lunch and a cocktail while taking a dip in the waterside pool! For your sweet tooth, there’s Chocolate Studios, featuring exotic homemade chocolate creations. If you prefer to prepare your own fine dining experience, then a trip to the Ozona Seafood Company is a must - they have incredible fresh fish, meat and all sorts of gourmet goodies.
If you’ve got young ones, they’re eligible to go to Ozona Elementary- the school in Palm Harbor that elicits tons of rave reviews from parents year after year, and is brilliantly managed by it’s Principal, Kerry Apuzzo. Better yet, the local high school is Palm Harbor University High, ranked in 2008 by Newsweek at #208 of the top 1400 public high schools in the nation (of which there are over 27,000!)
Even if you’re not a big fan of the water, yet you enjoy an “Old Florida” town feel, you’ll fall in love with the charm and sense of community that Ozona offers. It is unsurpassed in North Pinellas County - except perhaps by the other seaside community to the north which is Crystal Beach.
Then again, it depends who you ask.
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Relocating to Palm Harbor, FL? Consider Ozona for ‘Old Florida Style’ Living
July 1st, 2008 categories: Ozona Homes
Whether you’re relocating from Ann Arbor or your Palm Harbor East Lake home, and if you want a fantastic Pinellas home community with that ‘Old Florida Style’, then Ozona is a Palm Harbor treasure worth the dig.
It’s a tad confusing, but Ozona, FL and Crystal Beach, FL are actually both part of the unincorporated city of Palm Harbor, just South of Tarpon Springs and North of Dunedin and Clearwater Beach.
Ozona, FL and Crystal Beach, FL are seaside treasures. Here you can enjoy boating to Caladessi Island or Three Rooker Bar, and if you prefer an eclectic community over suburban development, and think you may also enjoy the thrills of riding to dinner in a golf-cart (and saving gas $$ and the earth at the same time), then this is may be the place you want to call home.
Suncoast Partners@ Keller Williams Realty, Palm Harbor put this virtual tour of ‘downtown’ Ozona together (all 2 blocks of it) earlier this year. Take the tour and also get a glipse of some of the Ozona, FL homes and the Spreckled Trout Marina. Or check out all of the Ozona marinas where you can launch your boat.
The real beauty of owning Ozona, FL real estate is being part of this seaside community who’s residents call Ozona home. Ozona, FL home prices are generally higher per sq. ft. than the rest of west Palm Harbor, and to click on the tour will only give you a small part of the reason why that’s the case. This eclectic community offers multi-million dollar waterfront homes next to funky seaside beach Read the rest of this entry »
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