Delray Beach is a small city on Florida's southeast coast intersected by Rt #1, I95, and the…read moreFlorida Turnpike. There are beautiful beaches, fine restaurants, and lots of shopping. I love the Delray Green Market & Silverball Retro Arcade & Lady Atlantic Yacht Cruises. Atlantic Avenue is a bustling walkable main strip going east west from the beach across the intercostal bridge ending in the Delray Market Place. The street & market are packed with galleries, boutiques, and outdoor dining that is perfect for people watching. The Delray Beach Amphitheatre at Old School Square present concerts, the Delray Affair, a Christmas tree & program ... Sandoway Discovery Center, Veterans Park & Anchor Park are a happening. The Delray Tennis Center hosts professional tennis tournaments on Atlantic Ave. The Pineapple Grove Arts District offers public art and galleries. Nearby, Cornell Art Museum displays contemporary works. The Arts Garage & Delra The lakeside Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens has an amazing gift shop, restaurant, with tea ceremonies, calligraphy workshops and serene outdoor spaces. Wakodahatchee Wetlands is a park featuring a raised boardwalk with views of birds, turtles and alligators. There are too many restaurants & shops to list; in Delray Beach. The Opal Grand, Aloft, Hyatt, The Ray, the Seagate, the historic Colony Hotel, Courtyard, Hampton Inn, Fairfield Inn ... are just some of the hotels in Delray.

A great public beach for a big group. We were in town for my friend's bachelorette party and…read moreaccidentally left our Airbnb too late on Saturday. It took forever for us to find parking, so we ended up doing valet near this beach. I was sunburnt from the day before so was on a quest to find an umbrella to rent. Thankfully, Oceanside rentals came in clutch with a $32 umbrella only all day rental. We liked this beach a lot because of the calm water. We also appreciated that there was less seaweed and calmer water than Boynton Beach's Ocean Front Beach Park. The surrounding green was gorgeous. Where we entered there was a giant pipe though that smelled a little like cigars, but we sat far enough away for it not too bother us too much. If you don't mind walking a bit for parking, this beach is a great pick.

This is a great find! Small but beautiful, this area was so nice to wander around. There are clear…read morepathways to walk through. They have benches for sitting and pet waste pick up stations too. There are even a few parking spots right out front as well for easy access to this park.

The Sailboat Preserve is 1.27 acres of Live Oak Hammock adjacent to the Argyle Canal. It was…read moreacquired with the Broward County Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond Program. They are a few street parking spots in front of the preserve. The preserve has been landscaped with native plant and they are marked with signs so you can identify them. Plants in the preserve include saw palmetto, slash pine, live oak, cocoplum, white indigo berry, beauty berry, and strangler fig. A natural ground path loops through the preserves. Although not wheel chair accessible it is an easy hike for a person of any fitness level. During my stroll I saw many lizards including a bright green Cuban anole and many different species of butterflies including cloudless sulphur and zebra heliconian. Although small the preserve is very nicely down. The only other person I encountered was someone doing their fitness routine.

I really love this area and I love this part. They just remodeled it and it's even better than it…read morewas before. You can bring kids from all ages. Do you have a small part that is great for the little ones and then you have a great size park for the older ones as well. There's also a wonderful splash pad that is great during these hot days. I love it because it is so diverse and you rarely see people there. It is never crowded and it is a lot of fun. Bring your family here and make a day out of it. There's also a gym right next-door if you wanna get a workout. I really love coconut creek treatment and they've done a great job with the splash pad, the gym, and the beautiful part.

I go to the Butterfly World often, so I get to spend time in Coconut Creek. I love the Butterfly…read moreattraction, it's one of the best in the world, but I also like the city itself. The city itself has about 60,000 residents and it's about 37 miles north of Miami and about 20 miles north of Fort Lauderdale. It's conveniently located west of Pompano Beach, the city which Coconut Creek seceded back in the 1960s and easy to get to from either the Florida Turnpike or I-95. Some of the top attractions are: Butterfly World Tradewinds Park Coconut Creek Community Center Coconut Creek Recreation Complex Goldcoast Ballroom Sabal Pines Park Seminole Casino Coconut Creek The Promenade at Coconut Creek I like the new construction of most of the strip malls and shopping malls, it makes it easy to find parking when shopping in the area.

Found this so called "Park" to walk my dog off STRD 84 along the North New River canal which…read moreconnects Okeechobee to Fort Lauderdale maintained by Broward County Parks and Recreation. Plenty of parking spaces and a picnic table under a huge tree as shading from the intense western sun. Just a tiny grassy area to walk my dog with giant iguanas roaming. Looks like a great fishing hole though and boats no longer can travel this canal. FYI, the entrance is small and must make a quick turn in from STRD 84 so not to get slammed in the rear by oncoming vehicles. NOT recommended for dogs or kiddies.

I love to discover history and there is something interesting in a park located south of Plantation…read moreon State Road 84 just west of the Davie Road Extension. In the park is Lock No. 1, also known as Sewell Lock and Broward Memorial Lock. A lock is a device for raising and lowering boats through different levels of water. This wooden lock is Broward County's oldest water control structure. Many people race by without ever noticing it is there but here lies one of the oldest structures in Broward County. Sewell Lock was built for the Everglades Drainage District in 1912 by the Furst-Clark Construction Company on the man made North New River Canal. The canal was built to drain the Everglades to allow for farming. It is a single lock that is 149 feet long and the entry controlled by wooden gates. The lock consisted of six-foot-thick concrete walls and large wooden gates that were operated by a hand-driven rack-and-pinion mechanism. The lock was built to to increase agricultural traffic along the North New River Canal. During this time the Everglades was being opened up to settlers and farmers. The canals linked the Everglades to the coast, not roads. The North New River Canal was a major transportation route for produce and catfish to travel from Lake Okeechobee to Ft. Lauderdale. In order to make the canal useful for boat transportation, locks had to be constructed in order to move the boats from one elevation of the water to another. Lock No. 1 at the south end of the canal was the first to be built in South Florida. Once the produce reached Ft. Lauderdale it was transported by train. Steamboats also used the lock to travel between Fort Lauderdale, the lake and Fort Myers via the Caloosahachee River. The steamboats carried passengers, cargo, and tourists up and down the river. After the 1920's highways and the railroad became the preferred mode of transportation. In 1926 the lock was closed permanently and allowed to deteriorate. Today boat traffic on the North New River Canal is limited and the lock is inoperative. Instead of a lock there is a spillway which keeps the area from flooding in a heavy rain by having three underwater gates that open by radio signal from the South Florida Water Management District in West Palm Beach when the water level in the river becomes too high. Excess water flows into the New River and out into the ocean. The Broward County Historical Commission worked with the the South Florida Water Management Department of Natural Resources to add the lock to the National Register of Historic Places in March of 1978. In the early 1990s the Historical Commission partnered with Broward County's Engineering and Parks and Recreation divisions, the state's Department of Transportation and South Florida Water Management District, and Department of Natural Resources to restore the gates on the west end of the lock. The lock now sits as the centerpiece of a park where it is a reminder of a time when people first started messing with the Everglades with unintended consequences. People have been trying to fix it ever since.

This county park is another one of the few natural pine scrub areas left in Florida. And after…read morevisiting Highland Scrub Natural area not far away, we decided to drive over and visit this very rare to south Florida natural preserve park, as well. The park is located right on a fairly busy street just south of the middle school. There was a lot of traffic traveling north and south here, but only one other car with one person had stopped when we were there. And the parking lot here is quite large. The person was relaxing in one of the shady pavilions having a late lunch. This sand pine scrub park is accurately described. The ground is sandy like beach sand and there is dry, desert like vegetation here. If you read the history, it explains how many thousands of years earlier Florida was mostly under seawater -- except for these high ridges that attracted vegetation and unique animals. And if you visit, it will remind you of parts of old Florida prior to urbanization. I like plants and flowers and found many interesting ones of both types to photograph here. As it was quite hot the day we came, we didn't walk the majority of the hiking trails. There are two trails -- one paved and one "natural". And they're both considered easy trails if you're dressed appropriately with comfortable shoes (which we were not). But we did also get to see some animal tracks -- some of which I'm not too fond. If you are new to Florida or new to the area, or just curious to what very old Florida looked like, this is a unique experience. It's quiet and relaxing and feels a world away from city life. I'm so glad that they've preserved this rare and ecologically sensitive spot since most have disappeared.

I recommended it's quiet not a long trail. I been to the one In Tampa it's long about 5 miles…read morereminding me the 5 miles

A well kept course, and fun to play…read more I hadn't played Markham before, but I've wanted to since I first saw it years ago while driving through Markham. I was there for a bike thing, but I made note it was there Last week I was to play with some friends and I said let's make the trek out west to Markham. It's always fun to try a new course. we got there at the early hour of 830. Plenty of people in line to get in, but most were for off-road biking. When we got to the course(far back right) there was only one more group starting off. After a couple warm ups we were were off. A couple water holes early but that was it for the agua. After that there were other tough holes in woods, but the back 9 was mostly open. The course had a nice layout, it never overlapped itself like I've seen a couple times lately. There were a few holes that gave a chance at a birdie for us amateurs which is always a plus. We all ended with decent scores, and the we could definitely do better on the next time. We will have to make it back soon to see if we can actually back that up.

Beautiful course at Markham Park. Two water holes. Easy to follow course. Some shorter holes and a…read morefew longer ones, mostly 300 feet. A couple Par 4's. The woods provide a nice challenge. Friendly disc golfers too. We left a disc at a hole and they put it on our car for us when we got back. Found a disc and texted the guy, but he had gone home to Illinois and said we could keep it. It was a great day.

Customer service topnotch. They have a great selection of salt water pets and supplie.read more

Waited a while for this fish store with a catchy name to open in the Dunkin' Plaza. May be hard to…read morecompete with the big box national pet shop chains but needed to check it out. Super clean tanks with vibrant fish priced reasonable. All the tanks were salt water. The Blue Hippo or Blue Tang fish were bright blue in color and are tiny but can grow to a foot long. The sole employee was attentive and informative.

This is more of a walkway path to an open landing than a park. The pathway is a nice walk to the…read morewater lined with mangroves and random local plants but no matter what time of day, there are always gnats and no-seeums that really hurt when they bite. The walkway is covered above with sunshades and the mangrove canopy which can also have large spiderwebs and other bugs during the cooler months. There is supposed to be no fishing but the area is not really patrolled to deter it, but there is water runoff pipes that lead into the intercoastal and they could be damaged. There is no dedicated parking or bathroom facilities.

This 1.4 acre park was made by the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency through an…read moreextension of Boynton Beach Blvd in 2006. Prior to the creation of the park there was only a small mulch pathway leading to the water. Parking is available along Boynton Beach Boulevard. The park is a paved walkway that runs through a mangrove nature preserve before ending at the Intracoastal Waterway. Mangroves are important because they help reduce erosion and they filter pollutants out of the water. Along the path there is supposed to be shade covers but they have been removed leaving only the metal supports. At the end of the path there is seating and a waterfront venue that can be used to stage events. The scenic intracoastal is beautiful and you get a view of the Banana Boat restaurant, the Two Georges Waterfront Grille, the Ocean Ave. Drawbridge, and all of the boats going down the Intracoastal. Fishing is not allowed but I saw people with their poles anyway. This feels like a secret nature spot but it is in the heart of downtown Boynton Beach.