Getting daily movement into our lives, no matter the amount, is a well-documented part of a healthier lifestyle. And if you buy or build your new custom Florida home with ICI Homes, you’ll have ready-made opportunities in the form of neighborhood trails and sidewalks.
Simply step out your front door and decide your route. Choose your activity — walking, running, cycling, strolling or skateboarding— and hit your daily step goal without much thought.
Well, you do have to decide to do it!
But seriously, any of the above activities (and more) can help us achieve health goals merely by utilizing our neighborhoods. And, community trails, paths and sidewalks can deliver additional perks beyond weekly mileage and step totals.
Here’s more on the benefits of community trails.
In your community
We’ve built new custom Florida homes throughout the Sunshine State for nearly 45 years. Known as Florida’s Custom Home Builder, we develop our own master-planned communities and serve as preferred builders in others.
Along with your home, living in a master-planned community offers many resident amenities that support healthy endeavors. Think resort-style swimming pools, fitness centers, golf courses, dining and social scenes, sports courts and many other activities.
Yet walking trails and sidewalks are foundational amenities in master-planned communities, and these pathways can boost not only your health, but community connections and friendships too.
Most of us know social interaction is a big plus for a healthy lifestyle; master-planned community trails and sidewalks can make it easier. Join a neighborhood fitness group for regular walks, runs or rides. Pause your singular route to visit with neighbors and friends along the way.
Two ICI Homes signature properties — Plantation Bay Golf & County Club in Ormond Beach and Amelia National Golf & Country Club in Fernandina Beach — give residents yet another trail option.
Plantation Bay features 45 holes of golf while Amelia National features a Tom Fazio-designed course. Residents in both communities can walk these gorgeous golf courses after a day’s rounds are complete (check with the pro shop first to make sure the courses are clear).
Near your community
Eager to stretch your legs and mileage beyond your neighborhood? Many ICI Homes communities are convenient to local parks, trail systems and — perhaps the most atmospheric “trails” in Florida — Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico beaches.
Tamaya, ICI Homes’ master-planned community at the corner of Kernan and Beach Boulevards in southeast Jacksonville, is a mere five miles from public beach accesses in nearby Jacksonville Beach.
Tiger Bay State Forest, with its suite of rural trails, forms the western boundary of Mosaic, our top master-planned community in Daytona Beach. It’s literally right next door!
Mosaic residents can hike the Buncombe Trail (part of the Florida Forest Service’s Trailwalker Hiking Program). Tiger Bay’s Rima Ridge equestrian trail is part of its Trailtrotter Program. For history buffs, the Pershing Highway Trail offers more than a mile along a circa-1917 brick road.
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Simply step out your front door and decide your route. Choose your activity — walking, running, cycling, strolling or skateboarding— and hit your daily step goal without much thought.
