Parks
- The Kampong, an 8 acre (32,000 m2) tropical garden that forms part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
- The Barnacle Historic State Park. Built in the late 19th century, the former home of Ralph Middleton Munroe is the oldest home in Miami-Dade County still standing in its original location and is situated on the shore of Biscayne Bay. The forest surrounding the home is tropical hardwood hammock and is the last of its kind in the area. The unique architecture includes period furniture and wide porches that afford magnificent views.
- Peacock Park / Kenneth Myers Bayside Park
- David Kennedy Park
- Merrie Christmas Park
- Steele Park
- Blanche Park
- Elizabeth Virrick Park
- Kirk Munroe Park
- Coconut Grove Park
- Grand Avenue Park
- Ingraham Terrace Park
- Sunrise Park
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas Mini Park
- Dinner Key Picnic Islands Park
- Alice C. Wainwright Park
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Famous quotes containing the word parks:
“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)