The zip code 33898 is in Polk County, Florida and includes the cities of Nalcrest, Lakeshore, Highland Park, Alcoma, and Fedhaven. Lake Wales is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. The population was 14,225 at the 2010 census. As of 2014, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 15,140. It is part of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lake Wales is located in central Florida, west of Lake Kissimmee and east of Tampa.
Local attractions in include:
- Bok Tower Gardens
- Camp Mack’s River Resort
- Spook Hill, an optical illusion which makes a car in neutral appear as if it is traveling uphill
- The commercial historic district in the heart of the old town contains important examples of architecture from the period of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The district’s tallest building, the Hotel Grand, has been boarded up for many years but has been purchased and is in the process of being restored.
The Lake Wales Museum and Cultural Center is a history museum funded by a public-private partnership. It offers exhibits and artifacts from the pre-Columbian era to modern.
- Grove House, the visitor’s center for the agricultural cooperative Florida’s Natural
- The Shrine of Ste Anne des Lacs
