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Haulover Park is a 177-acre (72 ha) urban park owned and operated by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation & Open Spaces Department, located in metropolitan Miami, just north of Bal Harbour, Florida. The park is located on a shoal between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay , just north of the Broad Causeway (SR 922) and Collins Avenue .
Tropical Park is a 275-acre (1.11 km 2) urban park in metropolitan Miami, Florida. The park is located just southwest of the intersection of the Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) and Bird Road, just west of South Miami.
Pages in category "Parks in Miami-Dade County, Florida" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The park offers 8-mile (13 km) of bike trails. They include single track and fire road trails with a number of climbs, downhills, and banked corners. The Bill Graham Farm Village is a farm replica featuring a demonstration shed where visitors can watch horseshoeing, cow-milking, livestock judging and sheep shearing, as well as a petting zoo, exhibit hall, sugar cane press and pony ring.
Matheson Hammock opened in 1930 as the first county park of Dade County, a gift of 80 acres to the county from William J. Matheson. [1] Originally administered by the county's first director of public parks, A. D. Barnes, and designed by the landscape architect William Lyman Phillips, [2] today it is owned and managed by Miami-Dade County.
In 1940 the Matheson family donated 808.8 acres (327.3 ha) of their land to Dade County (now Miami-Dade County) for a public park. In return, county commissioner Charles H. Crandon promised that the county would build a causeway to Key Biscayne. World War II delayed construction, but the causeway opened in 1947.
Miami-Dade: 1,043 acres (422 ha) 1986: Oleta River Biscayne Bay: Park has high numbers of the invasive species Casuarina (Australian pine) Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park: Baker: 43 acres (17 ha) 1949: none: First State Historic Monument in 1909 Orman House Historic State Park: Franklin: 1 acres (1 ha) 2001: Apalachicola River: House ...
Growth of the surrounding area and the nearby flight path for Miami International Airport forced the relocation of the municipal airport. The Fair Expo Center, site of the Miami-Dade County Fair & Exposition, is located on the eastern side of the park. A swimming pool was built in the mid-1970s equipped with state-of-the-art solar panels to ...