Lake Wales Guide is an independent publication, not a tourism bureau and not a city department. It exists because the practical information about this place — who is playing on a Thursday, which market actually happens this weekend, when the City Commission meets, what the CRA is spending money on — sits scattered across social posts, PDFs, and paper flyers taped to downtown windows.
Lake Wales is the editorial home base. Winter Haven, Bartow, Lakeland, Haines City, Frostproof, Dundee, and Babson Park extend the guide's practical reach, because nobody here plans a weekend inside one set of city limits.
Founded and edited by Jason Todd Wade. Reporting, listings, photography, and the code are all done in town.
How we verify
Verified
Confirmed through an official source or direct contact.
Reported
Documented editorially but not recently reconfirmed.
Community submitted
Sent in by a reader; awaiting full verification.
Archived
Preserved as a past record.
Unconfirmed
Details may have changed since we last looked.
Schedules change. We verify listings regularly, but confirm important details with the organizer before traveling.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, it is worth fixing on the record. Send the detail and, when you have one, the source. Corrections to factual errors are made promptly and noted on the page when the change is substantive.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship never affects factual descriptions, inclusion, or ordering in the directory. When BackTier supports an event, that relationship is labeled beside the event itself rather than repeated across unrelated pages.