The community built around the future

Lake Nona flips the usual Orlando script: a community about what comes next, 20 minutes from downtown. ChadGallivanter's tour on this page opens with the scale of the change — cow pastures and 1,500 residents at the turn of the century, well north of 64,000 people now — and tours the Town Center and the Wave hotel as the new anchors.

Best Things to Do in Lake Nona, Florida for 2022 // Boxi Park, Town Center, Glass House

ChadGallivanter

ChadGallivanter flips his usual script for Lake Nona — a community about the future rather than the past, 20 minutes from downtown Orlando: cow pastures at the turn of the century and just 1,500 residents, now well north of 64,000. His best-things tour covers Boxi Park, the Town Center and the Lake Nona Wave hotel's Glass House, and he notes Disney's announced campus relocating 2,000-plus jobs here (plans Disney later shelved in 2023).

Key takeaways
  • From 1,500 residents in 2000 to 64,000-plus two decades later
  • Boxi Park, Town Center and the Glass House lead the visitor list
  • Filmed in 2022 — the Disney campus discussed was cancelled in 2023

Lake Nona, Florida. Discovering The Sculpture Park & Boxi Park! It's Beautiful Here!

Medling World

Medling World discovers Lake Nona for the first time, taking in the Sculpture Garden and Boxi Park. (Transcript not stored: Supadata returned an Arabic auto-translated caption track for this English video.)

Discover Orlando | Boxi Park: Lake Nona's Urban Playground for Food, Fun, and Everything Else!

Get Real Estate Smart

Get Real Estate Smart tours Boxi Park, Lake Nona's shipping-container entertainment venue opened in 2019: brightly painted containers packed with food stalls — tacos, barbecue, seafood, vegan bites — bars pouring craft beer and cocktails, and live music, pitched as an urban playground for foodies and families alike.

Key takeaways
  • The entire venue is built from repurposed shipping containers
  • Opened in 2019 and an instant Lake Nona hit
  • Food, drinks and live music in one compact, colorful yard

Boxi Park

The social center is Boxi Park, opened in 2019: a park built from brightly painted shipping containers packed with food stalls and bars, with live music and room to sprawl. The container-by-container walk here names the order: Claw & Order for hot and cold lobster rolls, Foul Play for chicken sandwiches and wings, Hops for drinks — tacos, barbecue, seafood, and vegan bites fill the rest. The 2019 food tour here, filmed when it was brand new, already had the lobster roll on brioche figured out.

The hidden neighbor

Two separate visits on this page stumbled onto the same secret: the Lake Nona Sculpture Garden sits maybe 40–50 steps up the road behind a hotel, and people visit Boxi Park repeatedly without knowing it exists. Go find it first, then eat.

Boxi Park & Lake Nona Sculpture Garden Tour | Orlando Florida Best Hidden Nightlife Spot?

Family Time Vlogs

Family Time Vlogs pairs Boxi Park with its near-hidden neighbor: the Lake Nona Sculpture Garden, maybe 40–50 steps up the road behind a hotel, which they stumbled onto after several Boxi Park visits without knowing it existed. Their visit caught Boxi Park closed, so the sculpture grounds carry the video — billed as one of Orlando's best hidden nightlife-area finds.

Key takeaways
  • The Sculpture Garden hides steps from Boxi Park behind the Wave hotel
  • Even repeat Boxi Park visitors miss it — look up the road
  • Check Boxi Park's hours; it is not an all-day venue

EXPLORE the AMAZING Boxi Park in Lake Nona!

Langdon Family Travels

Langdon Family Travels walks Boxi Park container by container: Claw & Order for hot and cold lobster rolls and mac and cheeses, Foul Play for chicken sandwiches, wings and tenders, Hops for drinks — a family-friendly hang where the whole venue is restaurants and bars built from shipping containers.

Key takeaways
  • Named stalls make ordering easy: Claw & Order (seafood), Foul Play (chicken) and more
  • Works for families and for adults-only hangs alike
  • A lap of the containers is the whole tour — compact by design

Lake Nona Must-do's! Eating at Boxi Park & "Oh What Fun" Holiday Festival | Orlando Holiday Fun!

MiCaleb Goes West

MiCaleb Goes West eats at Boxi Park during Lake Nona's 'Oh What Fun' holiday festival after a stay at the Wave hotel, comparing the shipping-container food park to Austin's old Container Bar and introducing Lake Nona as a trendy, fast-growing planned community of big new homes and a modern-art aesthetic.

Key takeaways
  • Holiday season adds the 'Oh What Fun' festival to the Boxi Park trip
  • The Wave hotel makes it a stay-and-eat pairing
  • Container-park dining with an Austin echo

One dated note

A 2022 guide in this set discusses Disney's announced Lake Nona campus as future news; Disney cancelled that project in May 2023, and that video's catalog entry says so. The town itself never slowed down — the cancellation is a footnote, not the story.

Sources: the eight videos on this page — a best-things tour, two container-by-container food walks, a 2019 opening-era tasting, and a sculpture-garden discovery — summarized from their entries in our catalog.

Watch: Lake Nona and Boxi Park, guided

2 videos · summaries from the actual guides

What's New in Orlando: Food Tour at Boxi Park, Lake Nona

Blue Planit

Blue Planit's 2019 food tour of the then-new Boxi Park tastes its way through the containers: a lobster roll on brioche with lemon-parsley mayo and poached lobster, a whole soft-shell crab roll with mango chutney, and a flight of Hopfunk beers from light to dark — an early look at the venue that became Lake Nona's living room.

Key takeaways
  • Filmed in Boxi Park's opening year, 2019
  • Seafood leads: lobster roll and a whole soft-shell crab roll
  • Craft beer flights at the container bar

BOXI Park Entertainment Complex | Lake Nona Florida Walk Near Disney World (4K HDR)

52 City Walks

52 City Walks' 4K walk through the Boxi Park entertainment complex in Lake Nona. (No transcript available for this video.)

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