Stonecrest

Stonecrest sits in the rolling hills of southern Marion County in Summerfield, just across the Lake County line from The Villages. The community traces its start to about 1990, when it was launched as Floridian Club Estates; management reportedly changed hands in 1993 and the community was developed over the following decades into a gated 55+ country-club community of roughly 2,200-plus single-family homes. Multiple builders worked the community over its long build-out, with Lennar reported to have completed the final homes around 2023, bringing Stonecrest to its planned size.

The community's defining geographic feature is its proximity — and golf-cart connectivity — to The Villages, the enormous 55+ destination immediately to the south. A golf-cart bridge and cart-friendly streets let Stonecrest residents reach Villages shopping, dining, and the free nightly entertainment at the town squares without getting in a car, which has long been a central part of Stonecrest's appeal: Villages-style access at a gated community with its own golf, pools, and amenity campus.

Around Stonecrest, the Summerfield corridor along U.S. 27/441 has filled in with grocery, pharmacy, a Walmart, and county services, while Ocala's medical and shopping hubs lie about 15 miles north. Stonecrest today is an established, fully built-out community known for an active social calendar, an extensive golf offering, and a price point below The Villages itself.