North Miami Beach

From Miami Airport, you can take the J or 150 bus to Collins Avenue for a northbound S or 120 bus.
From Fort Lauderdale Airport, you can take the #1 Broward County bus to Aventura Mall for the Miami-Dade E,S, or 120 buses.

Miami-Dade Transit operates local bus service around North Miami Beach.

• Oleta River State Recreation Park

  phone: +1 305 919-1846
  address: 3400 N.E. 163rd St
  Daily 8AM-sunset. The largest urban park in Florida has trails for biking, a beach for swimming, picnic areas and a playground for kids. Get a canoe or kayak to row to a mangrove island within the park. Several animals such as eagles and fiddler crabs also make their home here. Fourteen cabins with air conditioning are also on the premises, but bathrooms, showers and grills are located outside the cabins and guests should bring their own linens. $5 for a vehicle carrying up to eight passengers, $1 bicyclists, pedestrians and extra passengers ($50.85 a night in a cabin).

• Ancient Spanish Monastery

  phone: +1 305 945-1461
  address: 16711 West Dixie Highway
  Built in Segovia, Spain in 1141. This monastery was to be a part of William Randolph Hearst’s property in California. Partly because he ran out of money and partly because the United States would not allow the monastery to be built in California, the monastery remained in New York Harbor until 1954, when a couple of businessmen bought the property and assembled it in Miami. Parts of the monastery have not been assembled because the government removed the pieces from numbered boxes and then placed the wrong pieces in the wrong boxes. Today the monastery is a church as well as a popular marriage location. As seen on the History Channel show Weird U.S.

• Museum of Contemporary Art

  address: 770 NE 125 Street, North Miami