Lithia is most well known for the famous Fishhawk communities, Fishhawk Trails and Fishhawk Ranch. Fishhawk Trails is a guarded, gated community with custom homes on half- to one-acre sites surrounded by towering oaks. The community offers a six-mile-long natural preserve trail system with a catwalk over Fishhawk Creek, as well as a recreation center and pavilion, tennis, roller hockey, playgrounds and more. Fishhawk Ranch is an award-winning, master-planned community offering residents an enclosed community-center life with neighborhood cafes, bars and restaurants, a movie house, skate park, aquatic center with waterslide, on-site daycare, and 20 miles of trails that connect the community's distinctive villages and parks.
Fishhawk Ranch sits on 4,400 acres, 1,500 of which are reserved for conservation: the community received recognition from the National Arbor Day Foundation and the State of Florida for its work in saving trees during development. The 9,000+ homes in Fishhawk vary in price from $120,000 to $700,000+. Older single-family homes are still available on country acreage outside of the major new developments; you can find a 3/2 on a country acre for $220,000, as well as undeveloped acres for reasonable rates. Despite booming planned developments, the median home price in Lithia is still at $296,000; the average is $345,000.