Kentucky Ave is the busiest street downtown. It is lined with a variety of eateries, bars, and other local commercial businesses and is closed to car traffic on the First Friday celebration every month.
The Curtis Peterson Trail is another gem in the Lakeland trail system that few people know about. This is a bike-pedestrian only connection that links south central Lakeland to southeast Lakeland.
This is "cut-thru" connection for bikes and pedestrians that makes it easy to get from the Dixieland neighborhood to west Downtown Lakeland (via Sikes Boulevard) that few people know about.
