Tower Lakes (Polk County, Florida)
Tower Lakes can be considered either one or two lakes, since they consist of a north and a south lake joined by a narrow water passage. Tower Lakes is a landscaping feature of the Tower Lakes Adult Mobile Home Community, just north of Lake Wales, Florida. The mobile home park is just east of US Highway 27; the only park entrance can only be accessed from the highway. This mobile home park, for residents fifty-five years and older, contains approximately 500 mobile homes and about 1000 residents during the peak season for winter visitors (December through March). The community has a large clubhouse on the east side of Tower Lakes just south of where the two parts are joined. The water has a 4.1-acre (17,000 m2) surface area. The north lake has almost twice the surface area of the south lake. The north lake is shaped like a backwards small "y" and the south lake is shaped like a capital "R." The two lakes are joined at the center of the bottom of the "y" and the top of the "R."[3]
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Location | Polk County, Florida |
Coordinates | 27.9304°N 81.6046°W |
Type | excavated manmade freshwater lakes |
Basin countries | United States |
Max. length | 1,000 ft (300 m) |
Max. width | 280 ft (85 m)[1] |
Surface area | 4.1 acres (2 ha)[2] |
Surface elevation | 131 ft (40 m) |
Settlements | Tower Lakes Adult Mobile Home Community |
No boating, fishing or swimming are allowed at Tower Lakes, but during daytime hours the public may enter the mobile home park to see Tower Lakes. The lake area has a wooden footbridge going over the channel that connects the two parts. Just to the north of the bridge a fountain is just inside the lake. Park benches are placed at various locations on the lake shore.[4]
References
- Since these lakes are very irregular in shape, this is the maximum length and width for the area these lakes occupy.
- This is the total area of both lakes.
- Wikimapia website, http://www.wikimapia.org/ (at location 27.9304N, 81.6046W); Trails.com website, http://www.trails.com/ (at location 27.9304, -81.6046); CRF Communities Resales website, http://www.crfresales.com/OurCommunities/TowerLakes.aspx ; "Tower Lakes Adult Mobile Home Community" in Superpages.com website, http://www.superpages.com/ .
- Wikimapia website; CRF Communities Resales website.