Parks
Downtown's largest and most popular parks are Bayfront Park, Bicentennial Park, and Pace Park. Bayfront Park is host to the free DWTWN Concert Series, put on weekly in the park's amphitheater, as well as various other annual events such as the Orange Drop for New Year's, Bike Miami, and the "America's Birthday Bash at Bayfront Park" for Independence Day. Bicentennial Park hosts many large outdoor concerts such as Warped Tour and Ultra Music Festival. Bicentennial Park is currently planned to be redone, and is to include the new buildings for the Miami Art Museum and the Miami Science Museum.
Other parks in the Downtown area include:
- Fort Dallas Park, CBD
- Lummus Park, CBD
- Paul S. Walker Park, CBD
- Joan Lehman Sculpture Plaza, CBD
- Robert F. Clark Plaza, CBD
- Southside Park, Brickell
- Simpson Park, Brickell
- Alice Wainwright Park, Brickell
- Brickell Park, Brickell
- Miami Circle, Brickell
- Brickell Key Park, Brickell
- Brickell Plaza Mini Park, Brickell
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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)