There are no waves in Miromar Lakes, but it draws raves

Written by

Andrea Stetson

Special to The News-Press

Although miles from the Gulf, its residents say they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

Sunlight sparkles like vibrant glitter off the clear, blue water.

Powdery, soft white sand stretches for three miles around curves, tucked into coves and in long flat stretches. Sailboats glide by, water skiers enjoy the always-calm surface, fishing poles dip in with a gentle plop and pull out with a little struggle and a wiggly fish on the end.

This is waterfront living, but it’s more than a dozen miles from the Gulf.

The infinity-edge pool at Miromar Lakes looks like it spills into the clear, blue 700-acre lake. / Andrea Stetson/Special to The News-Press

Click here to view all the active listings in Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf Club

• Miromar Lakes currently has 950 residences. When built out, 1,800 to 2,200 homes will line the lake and golf course.
  There’s a wide variety of residences from which to choose: beachfront homes, grand estate homes, estate homes, luxury villas, coach homes and condominiums.
  Residences ranging in size from 2,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet are priced from $500,000 to $5 million.

Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club, located next to FGCU and Gulf Coast Town Center in the San Carlos Park-Estero area, is the only community in Lee County that offers a true lake lifestyle. The community has won more than 100 awards and is the only development in Florida in 30 years to win the nation’s highest building honor: the National Association of Home Builders Gold Award for Community of the Year.

The 700-acre lake is the centerpiece of the community. Homeowners dock their boats in front of th eir homes or clustered in little dock areas. Some homeowners have their own little stretch of private beach, while others enjoy the main beach areas where they can stretch out in the shade under white canopy shelters.

Room after room, facility after facility feature lake views. Diners at the beach club sit just beyond the sand, munching on everything from shrimp and lobster dishes to quesadillas and burgers. The fitness rooms and spa feature large windows facing the water. There’s a private dining room with an Asian hardwood tree trunk table that stretches from door to floor to ceiling windows. Then there’s the swimming pool that seems to overflow past the pink and purple bougainvillea and into the lake.

“It’s a very unique feature to the community,” said Jeff Garard, sales associate. “A lot of people from up North … Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois … are used to lakes and they are not used to salt water. We have no salt water and no red tide. This is different from everything else you will see in this marketplace.”

The lake is what attracted Dick Rademaker to move there in 2004. He had lived on Sanibel Island since 1976, but chose lakeside living over the Gulf.