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Beyond Orlando’s headline attractions, you can expand your adventures by exploring our local culture: murals on downtown walls, coffee in historic buildings, and a town just north of the city that has been making history since 1887.
Explore downtown’s street art on your own schedule, for free. Or bring in a local guide: one tour pairs public art with coffee and bites, and the other walks you from Maitland into Eatonville’s history. Both guided tours run about two hours. Bring comfortable shoes and a curious mind. The guides handle the rest.
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Downtown Orlando Murals: A Free, Self-Guided Walk
Mural by Mado Smith (Courtesy United Arts of Central Florida)
Downtown Orlando’s walls are an open-air gallery, and you don’t need a ticket to see them. The Downtown Orlando Murals Map, a free self-guided StoryMap, walks you from piece to piece.
Pull it up on your phone, go at your own pace. At lunchtime, enjoy DTOLive! — a live music program that brings local artists to boost downtown’s vibrancy.
Best for: Early Risers, Budget-Minded Travelers, Families, Anyone Who Would Rather Set Their Own Schedule
Orlando Culture & Caffeine: Downtown With a Guide and Snacks
Wandering Palm Food Tours in Downtown Orlando (Fernanda Tineli / United Arts of Central Florida)
Want someone else to plan it? Wandering Palm Food Tours’ Orlando Culture & Caffeine tour covers about a mile and a half of downtown in two hours: public art, murals and sculpture, local galleries, historic architecture, and the small businesses that give the city its character.
Maitland & Eatonville: A History Walk Through 1887
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard — Eatonville Historic Walking Tour (Ryan Dean / United Arts of Central Florida)
In 1887, 27 Black founders, working alongside Maitland neighbors, established Eatonville, one of the oldest incorporated Black municipalities in the country. Celebrating its milestone 140th anniversary in 2027, it is also the town Zora Neale Hurston grew up in and wrote about in classics such as Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Eatonville 1887’s guided walking tour starts at Lake Lily Park in Maitland, crosses into Eatonville and returns to Maitland. Along the way, local historians trace the two towns’ shared path, from their founding to Eatonville’s present-day renaissance. Both towns are also adjacent to the City of Winter Park.
Best for: History Lovers, Families With Older Kids, Anyone Who Wants to Understand How Central Florida Came to Be
See more of the city in three hours. Orlando Bike Tours runs small-group rides, ten riders max, through local neighborhoods. The day ride covers street art, cafes and local culture. The night ride swaps in bars and live music venues. Bikes and helmets are included.
The Details: 3 hours | $75 per person | Day Ride Ages 12+, Night Ride 18+ | Meets at Wally’s on Mills Avenue | Book at ArtsinOrlando.com/Tours
Corridor Art Trail
An art exhibition on a bike trail. The Corridor Project installs eight human-scale billboards of artwork along the Andersen Bike Trail, between Greenwood Cemetery and Mills Avenue east of downtown, and the show changes four times a year. Walk it or bike it.
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