City overview
North Miami-Dade stretches from the Biscayne Boulevard shops and waterfront parks of North Miami and Miami Shores up through North Miami Beach, Skylake, Highland Lakes, Ives Estates and Ojus to the oceanfront Town of Golden Beach at the Broward County line. It is a practical, lived-in base for a South Florida trip: Miami International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International airports are both within easy reach, Brightline trains stop in Ojus, and the beaches, Oleta River State Park and Aventura's shopping are minutes away. The area is also one of Miami-Dade County's largest Orthodox Jewish and kosher hubs, with shuls, kosher restaurants, bakeries and markets concentrated along the NE 163rd and 167th Street corridors and in the neighbourhoods to the north, and a community eruv in North Miami Beach since 1977. Visitors can daven, shop and eat kosher every day of the week without heading to Miami Beach.
Haulover Park
North Miami Beach, FL · Parking $7 per car Monday–Thursday (plus $1 at North Lot and Lot #1), $10 weekends and holidays
This Miami-Dade County park between Bal Harbour and Sunny Isles Beach combines a 1.4-mile lifeguarded Atlantic beach with the Bill Bird Marina's charter-fishing fleet, a kite-flying field with its own kite shop, a skate park and pump track, and picnic shelters.
Time needed
Half day
Hours
Open daily sunrise to one hour before sunset (parking lots); park office open daily 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Tips
For families, the southern end of the beach near the main parking lots is the best choice; the stretch between lifeguard towers 12 and 16 is a designated clothing-optional area. Skyward Kites, the kite shop by the kite field, is open Monday and Wednesday–Friday 10:30 AM–5:30 PM, Tuesday 10:30 AM–8:30 PM and Saturday–Sunday 10:30 AM–6:00 PM, weather permitting.
Phone
305-755-7800Neighborhood
Miami Beach (Haulover)
Activity providers
Kosher map of North Miami Beach, FL
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