1374 E Ohio Ave Lake Helen, FL 32744

Escape the high taxes, brutal winters, and endless crowds of NJ, NY, CA, or even NC—your true Florida homestead freedom starts here!
Picture this: Expansive acreage waiting for your custom dream home, complete with a sturdy barn-style outbuilding workshop ready for all your projects—farming, hobbies, storage, or future homestead setups. Peaceful fields teeming with abundant wildlife (deer, birds, and more) create that serene, self-sufficient paradise you've been dreaming of. Best part? You're just minutes from New Smyrna Beach's world-class shores—think pristine bright sands, epic surfing, laid-back vibes, Smyrna Dunes Park adventures, and endless sunshine! Or you're just a short ride to downtown Lake Helen where horseback riding and family gatherings are still in fashion! 10+/- acres of Improved Land located in Central Florida only 20 minutes from New Smyrna Beach is waiting for your Dream Homes, horses, cattle, chickens, goats, and toys. Located in Flood Zone X means high and dry with the added bonus of being cleared. This site has a Rural (R) Future Land Use (FLU) designation. The R designation allows a density of one dwelling unit (DU) / 5 acres and could be the place to build your future family homestead or compound. Situated 3.1 miles to I-4, 15 miles to I-95, 1.7 miles to the Lake Helen Riding Arena, 3.8 miles to the Volusia County Fairgrounds, 25 minutes to New Smyrna Beach, 14 miles to Sanford International Airport, 22 miles to Daytona International Airport. The property has roadway frontage on a county maintained, paved road and has both water and electric on-site. It is Zoned Rural Agriculture A-2 Classification with the following improvements: 1,152 square ft Morton Outbuilding/ Shop, built in 2000, currently being used as storage for equipment. It has three large bays for parking and storage. 230 square ft concrete-floored Shed and Storage Building currently being used as tack/ feed room. 4,847 square ft Horse Barn contains eight (8) Interior Stalls, including three (3) Steel-gridded Stalls for stud horses and/ or those sweet little nippers, as well as four (4) Exterior In-paddock Run-ins and two (2) Foaling Stalls. The A-Frame Wooden Barn is fully enclosed, lighted, and has a clay sand floor perfect for groundwork and riding horses on rainy afternoons or in the evening serving as a small, covered riding arena. This parcel has a current Agriculture Classification, also known as Greenbelt, and is currently used as Pastureland for Cattle, but was previously an Equine Breeding Facility. Property is fenced and cross fenced in no-climb, woven wire. The pastures are a mixture of Bahia and native grasses. Additionally, Dutch clover has been planted in the back pastures for enhanced forage for both livestock and wildlife. This property is home to deer, bear, hawks, turkey, wood storks, cranes, egrets, bald eagles, woodpeckers, squirrels, and kites. While the back acreage lies within the Florida Wildlife Corridor, the front acreage does not. Subsurface, mineral, and other rights are intact. See attached Agriculture Classification Guidelines; See attached Survey. All Volusia County Staff Review Comments and Approvals available upon request. Not in city limits - No HOA - County trash services available. *Cattle, portable panels, feed bunks and liquid feed tanks Do Not Convey. Adjacent home parcel with residence also available - see MLS #O6388675. Sellers will consider offers for both parcels.