Depot Village

07/17/2026

Summer hiking in Florida is a dawn sport or it is a mistake. Beat the sun to the shaded loops at San Felasco and you have earned the iced coffee waiting back in the courtyard.

Trail notes on the site. https://www.depotvillage.com/hiking-near-gainesville

07/14/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out to a magical evening in the courtyard with our Acoustic Sound Check last night! 🪘 🪇 🎸

07/13/2026

Some mornings the to do list can wait behind a second cup. The cafe at Depot Village keeps a shaded courtyard table open for exactly that. The day will still be there when you get up.

More on the site. https://www.depotvillage.com/a-place-to-study-work-and-take-your-time

06/30/2026

Our Friends creative vibes will be supporting this dance party! We are excited to talk hempcrete 🙏🌎

Bo Diddley Plaza will host a Fourth of July celebration that also serves as the official launch of Mike Klein’s congressional campaign. See link below ⬇️

📸 Elise Norman

06/30/2026

A good Gainesville day, in order: a spring before noon, the prairie at golden hour, a band downtown after dark. Three different Floridas, one set of car keys you barely touch.

The full list lives on the site.

https://www.depotvillage.com/things-to-do-in-gainesville-from-the-middle-of-it

06/28/2026

Fifteen minutes from your room, wild horses and bison graze a prairie full of alligators. No, really. Go at golden hour, when the heat lets go and the whole basin starts to move. Florida shows off when the light runs low.

Paynes Prairie, on the site.

https://www.depotvillage.com/nature-near-gainesville

06/27/2026

Four blocks south, an old railyard became the best morning in town: a splash pad built like a spring, an acre of playground, a pond to loop, a museum at the end. Bring the kids. Bring nothing else. It is free.

The Depot Park rundown is on the site.

https://www.depotvillage.com/depot-park-a-guide-to-gainesville-s-best-park

06/26/2026

A downtown trick: park the car when you get in and do not touch it again. Dinner, a show, a nightcap, the walk home, all of it inside a few blocks with the old house in the middle. Let the car have the weekend off.

Book direct at depotvillage.com.

https://www.depotvillage.com/downtown-gainesville-a-visitor-s-guide