Kissimmee Florida Community Information

Kissimmee is located in Osceola County, central Florida, and has a population of approximately 63,000. It is one of the major cities included in the Orlando metropolitan region, where a total of over two million people reside. The city of Kissimmee is near many world-class attractions, such as Disney World, EPCOT, Animal Kingdom, Universal Orlando Resort and SeaWorld. In fact, the city of Kissimmee allows tourists access to these parks through the city. From theme parks to fishing and golf, shopping and history, Kissimmee has something for everyone. Indulge in fast-paced go-kart racing, heart-pumping water slides or float peacefully down a river at one of the area’s water parks. You can take a hot air balloon ride over Kissimmee, get a close-up view of an alligator or fly in a vintage WWII fighter plane. Osceola Heritage Park features a concert arena and a professional sports stadium that is host to musical acts, an annual rodeo and other special events. The variety of exciting things to see and do in Kissimmee is endless.

Kissimmee is also home to the Loop, which is a large outdoor shopping mall and multi-plex theater. Old Town Kissimmee offers several restaurants, amusement rides and 75 specialty shops. The Saturday Nite Cruise is a 19-year-old tradition in Old Town that features both vintage and newer cars. If you enjoy the arts, the Osceola Center for the Arts in Kissimmee hosts an annual festival with over 100 artists participating in the event. In addition, downtown Disney, offers an open-air Festival of the Masters in the fall. Nearby is the Orlando Museum of Art, the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. History comes alive in Kissimmee, also. At the Spence Lanier Pioneer Center, you can experience what it was like to live in an authentic 1898 “Cracker House,” shop in a 1900 general store and work in a blacksmith shop and sugar cane mill. Displays of Osceola County’s heritage are also distributed throughout the downtown area of Kissimmee. A Historic Driving Tour of Osceola County features the Veteran’s Memorial Library, St. Cloud Heritage Museum and Mount Peace Cemetery, where more than 300 Union veterans are buried. Kissimmee is also home to the 40-foot high Monument of States, which contains 1,500 stones collected over 22 years, including meteors, petrified wood and bones, representing every state in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries.