Park sights in Miami
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Miami Seaquarium
This 38-acre marine-life park excels in preserving, protecting and educating about aquatic creatures, and was one of the country’s first places dedicated to sea life. There are dozens of shows and exhibits, including a tropical reef; the Shark Channel, with feeding presentations; and Discovery Bay, a natural mangrove habitat that serves as a refuge for rehabilitating rescued sea turtles. Check out the Pacific white-sided dolphins or West Indian manatees being nursed back to health; some are released. Frequent shows put gorgeous animals on display for the audience’s amusement; shows include a massive killer whale, and some precious dolphins and sea lions. The Seaquarium’s …
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Bayfront Park
This park, around the waterfront, is one of the attractions located downtown . Few parks can claim to front such a lovely stretch of turquoise (Biscayne Bay), but Miamians are lucky like that. Lots of office workers catch quick naps under the palms at a little beach that does you the favor of setting out ‘sit and chill’ chairs. Some of the notable park features (besides vagrants) are two performance venues: the Bayfront Park Amphitheater is a good spot for July 4 and New Year’s Eve, while the smaller 200-seat South End Amphitheater hosts free springtime performances. In the southwest corner is the Challenger Memorial, a monument designed by Isamu Noguchi for the astronaut…
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Barnacle State Historic Park
In the center of the village is this 1891, 5-acre pioneer residence of Ralph Monroe, Miami’s first honorable snowbird. The house is open for guided tours, led by folks who are quite knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the park – which is, by the way, a lovely, shady oasis for strolling. Barnacle hosts frequent (and lovely) moonlight concerts, from jazz to classical.
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Biscayne Community Center & Village Green Park
A fantastic park for the kids, there’s a swimming pool, a park full of jungle gyms, an activity room with a playset out of a child’s happiest fantasies and an African Balboa tree that’s over a century old and teeming with tropical birdlife. Did we mention it’s free? The unmissable park and community center are west of Crandon Blvd.
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Fruit & Spice Park
The Fruit & Spice Park shows what you can do with trees when you have a tropical climate at your disposal, which is to grow more than 500 varieties of fruit, spice, vegetable and nut. (Bet you never knew there were 125 kinds of mango.)
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Matheson Hammock Park
This 100-acre county park is the city’s oldest and one of its most scenic. It offers good swimming for children in an enclosed tidal pool, lots of hungry raccoons, dense mangrove swamps, and (pretty rare) crocodile-spotting.
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Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Recreation Park
Serene beaches and stunning sunsets are just across the Rickenbacker Causeway (toll $1) at Key Biscayne, where you'll find the boardwalks and bike trails of the beachfront Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Recreation Park.
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Máximo Gómez Park
Also known as 'Domino Park', you'll understand why when you see the old-timers throwing bones.
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