Legoland Florida
— a kingdom built one brick at a time.
Not only on a wall.
“A theme park in Winter Haven, an hour southwest of Orlando, built on the grounds of the old Cypress Gardens. Banyans from the 1930s botanical garden still arch over the lake walk. Around them: a miniature America in brick, a coaster called The Dragon, and the new water park beyond. It opened in the fall of 2011.
Legoland Florida, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Legoland Florida Resort occupies 150 acres in Winter Haven, in Polk County, about 45 miles southwest of Orlando. The park opened on October 15, 2011 under Merlin Entertainments, on grounds previously occupied by Cypress Gardens, a Florida botanical and water-ski attraction that had operated since 1936. The original Cypress Gardens botanical core, including its giant banyan trees and lakeside cypress avenue, is preserved as a walk-through section of the modern park. A separate Legoland Water Park, the 152-room Legoland Hotel (2015), and Pirate Island Hotel (2020) sit on the same resort grounds.
The park is aimed at children ages two through twelve, with most rides built around that audience. Major draws include Miniland USA, a scale model of American landmarks in roughly 32 million Lego bricks, and The Dragon coaster, which runs through a brick castle. Adult daily admission in 2026 starts near $99 and children's admission near $84; multi-day tickets and a separate water-park pass apply. The resort is open across the calendar, with shorter weekday hours outside summer and the Christmas school holidays. The park is reached from Interstate 4 at exit 55 onto U.S. Highway 27 south.
Seasonal programming runs the calendar. Brick or Treat takes over weekends through October with a Monster Party stage show. Holidays at Legoland adds Christmas tree lightings and a Lego Santa Workshop through December. Spring break and Easter weekend are the heaviest non-summer crowd windows. Fan-organised gatherings such as the Florida Lego Convention occasionally draw closing-time after-hours events. The Cypress Gardens core within the park hosts seasonal flower displays drawn from the 1936-era botanical collection, with chrysanthemum windows in late autumn and azalea windows in early spring.