10 Things to Do in Pasco County This Week (Sept. 8-13)
The stretch after Labor Day is usually when Pasco goes quiet. It doesn’t this week. There’s a carnival running three days in Trinity, a Roald Dahl musical downtown, and a … Read more
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Wesley Chapel Grew 675% in a Decade and Still Has No City Hall
Wesley Chapel had 5,691 people in 2000. By 2010 it had 44,092 — a 675% increase in one decade. It’s kept growing since: 64,866 by the 2020 census, an estimated … Read more
Dade City Moved to Chase a Railroad, Then Became the County Seat
Dade City moved to chase a railroad. The original settlement, Fort Dade, sat a few miles off when the tracks were laid down in 1884, and rather than get left … Read more
Zephyrhills: The Civil War Veterans Colony Behind the Water Bottle
Zephyrhills started as a colony for Civil War veterans. That’s not a metaphor — in 1909, Captain Howard B. Jeffries, himself a Union veteran, bought 35,000 acres and founded the … Read more
New Port Richey Was Supposed to Be Hollywood’s Winter Home
The modern sand wedge was invented in a garage in New Port Richey. That’s not a local legend that’s grown in the retelling — Gene Sarazen, the golf champion, built … Read more
The Stockyard in Holiday Has an 18,000 Sq Ft Country Floor and Free Entry After 9
There’s a three-thousand-square-foot dance floor on US-19 in Holiday, and most of Pasco County has driven past it without knowing. The Stockyard sits a mile north of Tarpon Springs — … Read more
Every Restaurant That Opened in Pasco County This Summer
A Beef O’Brady’s became an Irish pub. A container-park unit that has burned through four concepts became Korean fried chicken. That’s Wesley Chapel’s summer in two sentences. Here’s every restaurant … Read more
5 Shows Left at Richey Suncoast This August, From $7.75 Up
Seven dollars and seventy-five cents gets you into a movie at the Richey Suncoast this Friday. That is not a typo, and it is roughly half what a regular multiplex … Read more
9 Tampa Bay Events Worth the Drive From Pasco This August
Nobody in Pasco treats the county line as a wall on a Friday night. The Fairgrounds amphitheatre is a straight run down US-301, the arena downtown is closer than half … Read more
4 Pasco County Parks Worth the Drive — Trails, a Free Train, and One Salt Spring
Starkey’s 8,300 acres, a free second-Saturday train at Crews Lake, 13 miles of trails along the Withlacoochee, and the one state park in the group.