Welcome to the Historic Yearling Restaurant and Cabins
Established in 1952, The Yearling has become a Florida Landmark.
We serve Southern Cuisine, specializing in the food rural Floridians have hunted, fished and prepared for generations.
We invite you to Cross Creek, a little bend in the road, enchanting in its unspoiled beauty.
Here you'll find yourself back in time. In the canopy of granddaddy oaks, tall palms, and lush citrus groves, wildlife abounds.
You'll find us on County Road 325 on Cross Creek, just 14 miles from Gainesville and 25 miles from Ocala. Easily accessible from either Highway 301 or Highway 441.
Come for the food. Come for the entertainment, or stay in one of our restored cabins.
We hope you will be as taken with the flavor and spirit of old Florida as we are.
This is not just a restaurant, it's a destination.
Join Group Leaders Paul and Darry Bova for a beautiful backwoods cruise to rural Alachua county to sample the wonderful offerings of the renowned YEARLING RESTAURANT near Cross Creek. Established in 1952 as a "woodsy" fishing camp, the Yearling has become a Florida landmark and dining destination. You'll be transported back in time and dropped off under a canopy of tall pines, soaring palms and lush citrus groves where wildlife abounds. Take some time to tour the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings homestead right down the road. (She wrote the book "The Yearling")
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. She also wrote Cross Creek, which also became a movie, now available on Amazon Prime. I recommend you watch the movie before joining this trip.
It is a very interesting guided tour.