Location Description

Whitney Mobile Home Park is THE nicest mobile home community in the entire county.

From the Highway Patrol station located on the corner of northwest 34th Street and Highway 441, take Highway 441 northwards almost exactly 2 miles until you come to the place where 441 begins to bend to the right. At this point, slow down and get into the deceleration lane for the park. Turn right and go over the railroad tracks and you'll see the main park office on your right.

If approaching from NW 43rd Avenue, take Highway 441 south 1-1/2 miles. When 441 begins to bend to the left, slow down and get into the turn lane for the park. Head over the railroad tracks and you'll see the main office on your right.

Whitney Mobile Home Park is located just across the street from the Turkey Creek Forest subdivision (not to be confused with the Turkey Creek GOLF community located a few miles farther north).

Within a few miles drive of:

The University of Florida.
Shops and Stores - 3m
Gas Stations - 1m
FHP station - 2m
Nature spots - Devil's Millhopper, Blue Springs, Ginnie Springs, Paynes Prairie.
Museums - Museum of Narural History, Butterfly Museum, Harn's.
Restaurants - Gainesville and Alachua County are full of all sorts of restaurants to choose from: American, chinese, greek, italian, japanese, mexican, etc.
Tourist attractions - Busch Gardens, KSC, Walt Disney World (Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios [aka-MGM Studios]).

Just a couple of hours drive to beaches on either the Atlantic or Gulf.

Interesting Facts

Tom Petty was born in Gainesville, and used to work for the University of Florida, and Sabine's music store. Both Don Felder and Bernie Leadon of the Eagles attended Gainesville High School. Felder gave Tom Petty guitar lessons at a local music shop for a year and a half. On the insert booklet of a Reader's Digest tape containing her song "Loving You", it is said that Minnie Ripperton wrote the song about the feelings she felt during a certain season in Gainesville. The bar scene from the movie Devil's Advocate was filmed in a bar located on the corner of W. University Avenue and Main Street, downtown. The church scenes from Devil's Advocate was filmed in a little church located along Tower Road on the west side of Gainesville. One of the Cannonball Run movies was filmed along University Avenue in Gainesville. The film Doc Hollywood was filmed a few miles south of Gainesville, in the little town of Micanopy. Marjory Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, lived on a 72-acre orange grove located in the little town of Cross Creek, in the southeastern part of the county, near Hawthorne.