Position
Willow sits where I-75 and US-41 nearly touch
Tucker’s Grade is the closest the two highways come to each other anywhere south of Tampa — roughly a mile apart. Willow is between them.
- To US-41
- 0.4 mi Tamiami Trail, west
- To I-75
- 0.7 mi Exit 158, east
- To PGD airport
- ~4 mi Commercial service
- To Fort Myers
- ~17 mi Downtown
Distances are straight-line from Willow’s published coordinates (26.8624, −81.9827), not drive times. We don’t publish drive times we haven’t measured ourselves.
Nearby
What is actually around you
Punta Gorda
A genuinely pleasant small Gulf-coast city built around Charlotte Harbor, with a walkable historic downtown, a working harbourfront, Fishermen’s Village, the Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens, and a linear park along the water. It is the reason people choose this stretch of coast over the busier markets north and south.
Charlotte Harbor
The second-largest open-water estuary in Florida. Tarpon, snook and redfish; boat ramps and marinas along the shoreline; the harbour opens into the Gulf. If a boat is part of the plan, this is a strong address for it.
Punta Gorda Airport (PGD)
About four miles away and served by scheduled commercial flights. For a community this size, having a real airport that close is unusual — it changes how often family visits.
Fort Myers and beyond
Downtown Fort Myers is roughly 17 miles south, which puts the larger job market, the bigger hospitals and Southwest Florida International Airport within a routine drive. Sarasota is the same kind of distance north.
Babcock Ranch
About 15 miles east — worth knowing as a point of comparison rather than a destination. It is the other big new-construction story in Charlotte County and buyers usually look at both.
Groceries and services
The nearest full Publix is at Burnt Store Marketplace on US-41. There is no supermarket at the Tucker’s Grade interchange itself. Medical care is concentrated in Port Charlotte to the north.
The part nobody puts in a brochure
Storms, and building for them
Charlotte County took Hurricane Ian’s landfall in 2022 and was hit again by Helene and Milton in 2024. Anyone selling you Southwest Florida without mentioning that is selling you something.
Here is the other half of it, and it matters. A home built now is engineered to the current Florida Building Code, which is among the most demanding residential wind codes in the United States and is a different standard from the housing stock that took the damage in those storms. New roof, new envelope, current wind-mitigation detailing — that combination is also what insurers price off.
We will not tell you a house is hurricane-proof, because no honest person can. We will tell you exactly what standard your specific home is permitted to, and we will help you get insurance quotes before you are past the point of walking away.
Know the area before you buy in it
We live and work this corridor. Ask us anything — including the things that would talk you out of it.