Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Alachua County Visitors & Convention Bureau
TOURIST INFORMATION
352-374-5260;
www.visitgainesville.com
;
30 E University Ave;
9am-5pm Mon-
Fri)
Friendly staff are happy to welcome you to town and advise on the latest happenings.
Pride Community Center
TOURIST INFORMATION
(
352-377-8915;
www.gainesvillepride.org
;
3131 NW 13th St;
3-7pm Mon-Fri, noon-4pm Sat)
For gay and lesbian info.
Getting There & Around
miles northeast of downtown, is served by a handful of domestic carriers.
The
Greyhound bus station
(
352-376-5252;
www.greyhound.com
; 101 NE 23rd Ave)
is a
mile or so north of downtown.
Gainesville Regional Transit System
(RTS;
352-334-2600;
www.go-rts.com
; fares
$1.50)
services the city with buses.
Around Gainesville
Cross Creek
Near the rural hamlet of Cross Creek, swing by the
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic
State Park
( 352-466-3672;
www.floridastateparks.org/MarjorieKinnanRawlings
; 18700 S CR 325,
Cross Creek; per vehicle $3; 9am-5pm)
. Rawlings (1896-1953) was the author of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Yearling,
a coming-of-age story set in what's now Ocala
National Forest. Her career flourished only after Max Perkins, Rawlings' (and also Ernest
Hemingway's and F Scott Fitzgerald's) editor, told her that her letters about her friends and
neighbors were more interesting than her gothic fiction, inspiring her to write
Cross Creek,
a book about her life in this area. Her former cracker-style home is open for
tours
(adult/
child $3/2;
10am-4pm Thu-Sun, closed Aug & Sep)
on the hour (except noon). You can stroll
