Aripeka, Florida

Aripeka Sandhills Preserve is a protected area of 209 acres (85 ha) west of US 19 near Aripeka and Hudson, Florida. It is managed by the Southwest Florida Water Management District and was purchased on November 8, 2007, as part of the 7,136-acre (2,888 ha) Weeki Wachee Preserve (now more than 11,200 acres (4,500 ha)). It is part of a group of conservation lands extending north to the Crystal River Buffer Preserve (now a Florida State Park), helping preserve the southernmost coastal hardwood hammock in western Florida. The preserve includes dense hardwood swamps and piney sandhills. It is located at 18000 Aripeka Road.

Heritage Pines is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, United States. Its population was 2,136 as of the 2010 census.

Hernando Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hernando County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,299 at the 2010 census.

Frank W. Springstead High School is a public Hernando County high school in Spring Hill, Florida. The school opened on December 1, 1975, and had its first graduation class in 1979. In 2014, Springstead High School was ranked as #929 which was based on their Advanced Placement test scores, graduation rate, and SAT and ACT scores. Springstead High School was chosen to become the only International Baccalaureate school in Hernando County. This program started in the 2008–2009 school year.

Hudson High School is a Pasco County public school in Hudson, Florida established in 1973. It is located between hudson primary academy and Hudson academy. Hudson’s feeder schools include Hudson Primary Academy, Shady Hills Elementary, Mary Giella Elementary, Hudson Academy, and Crews Lake Middle.

Dinosaur Wildlife was a tourist attraction and museum that was open from 1962 to 1998 off U.S. Route 19 in Spring Hill, Florida. A medium-sized building with a 60-foot (18 m) long hall filled with four rows of 28 display cases, as well as exhibits on the floor and walls, Dinosaur Wildlife presented a vast collection of taxidermy, particularly relating to Floridian insects and animals.

Timber Pines is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hernando County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,386 at the 2010 census.

Hudson Beach is a small unincorporated beach community, west of U.S. Route 19 in Pasco County, Florida, United States. The community has canals crisscrossing it, and the residences have canals in their backyard. It is just north of Port Richey. The neighborhoods are, from north to south, Sea Pines, Driftwood Isles, Cape Cay, Sunset Estates and Waterway Shores, Port Hudson, Hudson Beach Estates, Sea Ranch and Signal Cove. The canals were blasted by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. Today, environmental legislation prohibits this activity, making Hudson Beach one of the largest artificial canal cities in the United States, with over 25 miles (40 km) of inland waterways. The actual beach has the distinction of being built by the people who lived here in the 1960s. It is located on Florida's west coast about 40 miles (64 km) north of St. Petersburg.

Hudson is a census-designated place (CDP) located at the westernmost end of Pasco County, Florida, United States, and is included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, Hudson's population was 12,158.

Weeki Wachee Preserve (also given as Weekiwachee Preserve) is an 11,206 acre preserve in Hernando County, Florida. The preserve is located at 2345 Osowaw Boulevard in Spring Hill, Florida. The preserve offers recreational opportunities such as hiking and bike trails, fishing, and boating for hand-launched non-gasoline engine crafts.The site is known for its population of black bears. It is Site 69 on the west section of the Great Florida Birding Trail.

Jenkins Creek Park is a 3-acre (12,000 m2) park that includes "natural freshwater springs, man-made canals, coastal marshes, uplands, and waterways leading to the Gulf of Mexico" as well as a boat launch for small boats or canoes, a fishing pier, grill, picnic tables, and restrooms. It is located in Hernando Beach in Hernando County, Florida, although Hernando County Parks Department gives the address as being in Spring Hill. Across the street is Linda Pedersen Park, a 135-acre (0.55 km2) park connected by an aluminum boardwalk to Jenkins Creek Park. It is used for fishing and has a forty-foot-high observation tower offering "a panoramic view of the marsh and look out over the Gulf of Mexico." It also includes a playground and is in an area frequented by manatees. The park has grills, picnic tables, a pavilion, swimming area, playground, community building, showers, and restrooms.

Fivay High School is a public high school located in Pasco County, Florida, located on State Road 52. Opened on August 16, 2010, the school was built for 1,870 students from Hudson High School, Ridgewood High School, and River Ridge High School which had been experiencing overcrowding.