Land O'Lakes is primarily a sea of single-family subdivisions and master-planned communities, with each new community seemingly bigger and more jam-packed with amenities than the next. Oakstead is one such community, comprising small, gated villages surrounded by over 800 acres of forested wetlands. Oakstead residents enjoy wide-open conservation areas with wildlife corridors, stocked ponds, forested wetlands and miles of biking and hiking trails—not to mention a community center, full-time recreation director and after school programs for children. Homes in Oakstead are affordable, starting in the low to mid $200s.
Suncoast Lakes is another popular community; more than three-quarters of the 525 homes in Suncoast Lakes back to a lake or conservation area alive with oak and pine. Much of the community's 330 acres extends into Pithlachascotee Forest and Serenova Wildlife Preserve, both protected areas.
Three other popular Land O'Lakes communities are worthy of note: Connerton, Wilderness Lake Preserve and Ballantrae.