There is so much to see in our fabulous city that you could spend years exploring all Greater Miami has to offer.

But what if you’re here for only a day or two?

Here are some tips for discovering the best of Miami Beach in a short amount of time.

If you have 1/2 a Day 

Get a taste of our waterfront in the always-lively Bayside Marketplace.
Arm yourself with a frozen daiquiri and stroll along the bay. There are lots of shops and kiosks, plus live music and entertainment every day. 

You can also catch a quick sightseeing cruise from Bayside.

If you have 1 Day 

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Located in the heart of South Beach, just north of Ocean Drive, Lincoln Road – one of the most romantic street – runs from the ocean to the bay between 6th and 17th Streets in Miami Beach’s historic Art Deco District.

Built in 1914 as the center – piece for Miami Beach, it was considered one of the most elegant shopping streets in America by the 1950s.

In the early ‘60s, legendary architect Morris Lapidus created a new design for the Road and closed it to traffic.

Though the 70s and 80s saw a decline in Lincoln Road, by the ’90s it once again became a bustling, vibrant area and now attracts an international mix of tourists and residents.

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Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum
Learn about the culture of the unconquered Seminole Indians. Located on a 60-acre cypress hammock, more than one mile of boardwalk nature trails winds through ceremonial grounds and a living village.

Located 17 miles north of 1-75, exit 14. Big Cypress

Amelia Earhart Park
Explore 515 acres, including a freshwater lake, photo above, and the Bill Graham Farm Village (open 9a. m. to 4 p. m.), complete with a petting zoo and weekend pony and hayrides. The park also features Tom Sawyer’s Play Island, picnic pavilions, and bike and paddkboat rentals.

401 E. 65th St., Hialeah

Art Center – South Florida
Art Center provides work and exhibition space for more than 81 visual artists through its juried artists program. Art Studies in various media and artistic levels are available for all ages.

Galleries and studios are free to the public.

At 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road Miami Beach.

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Cruising down Collins Avenue, marveling the couturiers’ row of high-fashion shops; strolling up the boardwalk fronting Ocean Drive, gasping at the Technicolor whimsy of its art deco hotels and apartment buildings.

Rollerblading east to west along the no-cars- allowed Lincoln Road Mall, watching its revival unfold before your eyes, you can’t help but think that South Beach is not at all real, that this magical place where it seems everyone is forever on vacation is some kind of fantasy cooked up by the animators at Disney.

ou would not be wrong to make that assumption.

South Beach is a fantasy, a stunningly successful fantasy, dreamed of (and even foreseen) a decade ago by a handful of visionaries thought by most to be insane or at least aspiring to be.

A tightly knit group of artists, restaurateurs, devotees of art deco architecture and plain old personalities, they were people who seemed to eke out a living merely by existing for the amusement of others.

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