MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCBD) – Cypress Gardens has fully reopened to the public after sustaining damage from the thousand-year flood in 2015. The ‘Heritage Room’ at Cypress Gardens in Berkeley County ...

Editor's note: Florida's first official theme park opened 90 years ago in January. This story originally ran as a Post Times column on May 26, 2019. When Walt Disney's empire only was a little mouse, ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — In a blending of old and new, LEGOLAND® Florida paid tribute to the heritage of Cypress Gardens during a ribbon cutting ceremony to reopen the Florida Pool and Oriental Gardens.

Legoland Florida unveiled some of the most cherished pieces of Cypress Gardens' botanical gardens this week, reuniting the past with the present. The iconic Florida Pool and the Oriental Gardens ...

Florida is known around the world as the home of major theme parks such as Disney World, Universal Orlando, Sea World and Busch Gardens. There are smaller theme parks here as well, including ...

WINTER HAVEN - Key dates in the history of Cypress Gardens: Jan. 2, 1936 - Richard "Dick" Pope Sr. and his wife, Julie, open Cypress Gardens as a botanical garden on the northeast shore of Lake Eloise ...

When Walt Disney's empire only was a little mouse, Dick Pope was birthing Florida's modern tourism industry on 16 acres of swamp in Winter Haven. Pope would be called an "aquatic Barnum.'' But he was ...