Join us on Sat April 13th for our Apopka Spring Pet, Craft & Food Fest at Kit Land Nelson Park. Join local Vendors, Food Trucks & Businesses from 11-4pm. The best place to find all the local vendors in your area looking for those looking for events or those that want to shop. Shop with 90 Amazing local vendors, Come eat with 15 Delicious Food Trucks, music, kids characters.
Apopka is a city in Orange County, Florida. The city’s population was 55,000 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Apopka comes from the Seminole word Ahapopka for “potato-eating place”.
Through the 1940s, Lake Apopka was one of Central Florida’s main attractions. Anglers traveled from throughout the United States to fish for trophy-sized bass in Lake Apopka, and 21 fish camps lined the lake’s shoreline.[2]
Lake Apopka has a history of more than 100 years of human alteration, beginning with construction of the Apopka-Beauclair Canal in 1888. In 1941, a levee was built along the north shore to drain 20,000 acres (80 km2) of shallow marsh for farming. The discharge of water, rich in nutrients from agricultural and other sources, produced conditions that created a chronic algal bloom and resulted in loss of the lake’s recreational value and game fish populations.