This is a charming neighborhood park in the Kendale Lakes neighborhood of Miami. Kendale is located…read morein west Kendall, about ten miles from Miami. Henry Flagler brough his Florida East Coast Railway from West Palm Beach into the area now known as Kendale Lakes in 1903. In 1926 a hurricane devastated the area plunging it into an economic depression. The New Deal Program created by President Roosevelt helped to provide work and many CCC workers built structures all over Miami Dade County. During WWII Kendale Lakes remained largely rural as the rest of Miami sprang up. In the 1970's and 80's it was considered a bedroom community with homes owned by doctors and lawyers. Today Kendale Lakes is a well-loved suburban community with excellent schools and beautiful parks like this one. Kendale Park has a large open area for walking your dog, play, and exercise. A paved walkway winds through the park and in the center of the park is a playground and outdoor exercise equipment. This is the perfect place for people living in the community to enjoy the outdoors without having to leave the neighborhood. Anyone looking for a larger park with more amenities can avail themselves of the vast nearby Kendall Indian Hammocks Park.

Kendale Park is a quaint little park in the middle of Kendale boulevard. Its location, which is not…read morevisible from Kendall Drive, keeps the traffic away and maintains it as a community park. The large playground in its center, emphasizes that this park is mainly for children, parents, or those out for a leisurely stroll. There are signs around that say on Friday evenings, a family movie is shown in the park, but since I have never attended any of these events, I cannot be certain as to how many people attend these events and how crowded it gets. But on a typical day or night, the park is mostly empty, and those benches under trees makes you just want to sit down and watch the day dissipate into the night.

The Doral White Course Park was built on the former Doral County Club's White Course Golf Course…read more Established in 2000, the course was closed in 2015. The land was then sold for mixed use redevelopment. Across the road the four Trump National Doral courses are still open for play. This park opened on May 4, 2022. It was designed with input from area residents. A highlight of the park is the shade covered imaginative golf themed playground. There are spinners, swings, climbing structures, and slides including a corkscrew. I love that the playground has a soft artificial turf to protect knees and bottoms. The park also has outdoor fitness stations, a multi- purpose green space area, fenced dog area, restrooms, practice putting green, and picnic shelters and tables. Landscape lighting with overhead and walkway lighting and security cameras were also added to the park. Another feature is a boardwalk that connects this park to the Downtown Doral Parking Lot. A Doral sign added to the park was a gift from the Miami Association of Realtors. This park is a tranquil retreat from the stress of everyday life. I enjoyed walking through the park while taking in the beautiful landscaping and visiting birds. This park is an important space for the people living in the high rise mixed use development. Doral White Course Park is a safe and convenient place to take the kids and dogs to play, work out and exercise on the free equipment, or just have a picnic.

The park is well-maintained, making it ideal for both toddlers and older kids…read more It offers plenty of shade and enjoys a pleasant breeze throughout most of the day. Thank you for a great time.

Our next summer adventure with kids take us to Sabal Chase Park with a category of 4.5 and more…read morethan 118 reviews located in Hammocks Kendall. Small but it has many options for the little ones in the family to play on different obstacles for the motor and muscular development of the body. Located next to a school, it's perfect for children to enjoy, as well as the surrounding community.

I discovered this darling park when I was grabbing coffee at Our Grounds which is located nearby. I…read morecouldn't help but notice the adorable playground set among beautiful landscaping. The park is on a large field that sits adjacent to the William Lehman Elementary School. It turns out everything in the nature based playground is brand new. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on May 31st of this year. The city spent $500,000 from the Quality Neighborhood Improvement Program and impact fees to redesigned the playground with the goal of getting children to spend more time outside and to encourage them to appreciate nature through play. The 4,510-square-foot play area contains inclusive playground equipment and Australian pine logs were added to provide seating. Playground equipment includes climbing nets, a double tower, spring riders, swings, a play and learn panel, and musical instruments to play. New landscaping including five oak trees, sod, and native pollinator plants along with concrete curbing, walkways, benches, and bike racks were added to enhance the area. The result of all of the improvements is a inviting play area for the community children. Improvements at Sabal Chase are part of the Miami-Dade County Parks and Open Space Master Plan which is a vision to create a sustainable system of parks, recreation and open spaces for the citizens of Miami.

This park was like hidden gem and I found it when I googled which park was around me…read more What I wanted to do is walk and sit down to relax a little bit. I was able to do some of it but because of the fact that it's not as big I couldn't walk that much. They have free parking.

This is a park located in west Coconut Grove. It is named in honor of poverty activist Elizabeth…read moreVirrick who was born in Winchester, Kentucky in 1897. She studied architecture and interior design at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University before moving to Miami in 1925 with her husband. During a meeting at the Coconut Grove Civic Club in 1948 she met Pastor Theodore Gibson. Through him she learned about the impoverished living conditions of the community's African American population, many of them Bahamian. Together Gibson and Virrick formed the Coconut Grove Citizens Committee for Slum Clearance to improve sanitation, access to clean water, and garbage pickup in Coconut Grove. Virrick raised money to replace outhouses with plumbing. She then expanded her crusade to other low income African American communities. She tried to stop the I-95 expansion into Overtown which devastated that community. She was more successful with halting the I-95 extension into Coconut Grove. After WWII Verrick continued to work for the betterment of her community. In the 1960s, Virrick was working on President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, a program that promoted fair housing, increased job opportunities, and social service programs. Elizabeth Virrick's name adorns many buildings throughout Miami. The 3.5 acre park that bears her name was designed by architect Kenneth Treister. It is on a parcel of land that borders the historic black and white sections of Coconut Grove. This park was the result of work by Treister, Virrick and Miami City Commissioner Alice Wainwright who also has a park named after her. The park opened in 1963 and in 1970 a pool was added. In 2002 the park was renovated and a new community center was added that was designed with the assistance of Kenneth Treister. In 2006 a library branch was added. In 2017 historical marker F-967 was added to the park. The marker details the many accomplishments of Elizabeth Virrick and it is located near the Coconut Grove Wall of Fame. Today park amenities include the library, basketball courts, restrooms, grills, and picnic tables. The community center provides after school, teen, and camp programs. It has a gymnasium and computers and hosts events for the community. Plans have been in place since 2010 to replace the outdated pool. Right before Covid, funding was getting finalized for an Olympic sized pool that will help children in the community learn to swim. The pipework underneath Elizabeth Street would need to be restructured which will hold up the project. The community has eagerly been waiting for the pool for many years now. I am sure that if Elizabeth Virrick was still alive she would be fighting for them to get it. .

Sugarwood Park is a very nice neighborhood park located behind Claude Pepper Elementary School…read more Claude Pepper was a long term democratic politician who represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until his death in 1989. There is also a beach park named in his honor in Fort Pierce. This rural part of unincorporated Southwest Miami-Dade is called the Hammocks and Sugarwood is one of the neighborhoods in the Hammocks. Sugarwood Park has a .3 mile lighted loop walking path, basketball courts, playground, benches, and tot lot. There is also a fitness court that features five pieces of easy to use, low impact gym equipment designed for cardio and strength training and even wheelchair workouts. Landscaping in the park includes butterfly attracting plants. This park is great recreational spot for families and people looking to exercise in South Miami.

A good sized park located behind Claude Pepper Elementary School, my former primary School. There's…read morea basketball court, a playground, and a trail that loops around for those looking to get some exercise. The playground area itself has widened for more room to play in. There are 4 sets of swings--2 are regular swings and 2 other ones are chair-like for those who just want to sit back and recline. Parts of the playground have the blue rubber flooring and other parts are sand. There are no parking lots, but you can park along the street right by the park. Overall, this is a nice park to take a stroll, play some bball, or take kids on the playground.

I really love Pinecrest. In the 1930's the areas first tourist attraction opened, Parrot Jungle and…read moreGardens. A village sprung up around it and it is now one of Miami Beach's most affluent and family friendly neighborhoods with a farmers market, bike trails, and beautiful parks like this one. Flagler Grove Park is ideal for sports enthusiasts. Dedicated in 2008, this 2.4 acre park has four synthetic field options, a 7x7 soccer field and a 9x9 soccer field which are overlaid on a full 11x11 soccer field and a full-size lacrosse field. Fields can be rented from the city. The park also has a bleachers, a shade covered playground, restroom, and water fountain. Like all of the parks in Pinecrest, this park is clean and well maintained. Teams who come to practice and families who want to kick a ball around with the kids are the most frequent visitors to this serene park.

A decent enough small and local park. I visited in a Saturday and it was surprisingly busy with…read morelots of football matches going on for little children.

A nice and clean spacious park in South Miami. Suitable for young children.read more

Took my little one here 4 times already and each time have made friends with new parents. The park…read morehas been part of South Miami for a while and consisted of a 0.58 acre of land with a Gazebo on it but that was about it, until this past month when a kiddie park was installed: swing set and jungle gym with slides all atop a rubberized material was installed. This has reinvigorated the park. We exchanged numbers with one set of parents on New Year's Day who had a child that was just two days younger than ours. How about that? The park is a little closer to us than Dante Fascell so that's an added bonus. Green Lime Bikes are positrons on the premises so you can take off on a whim. There is even a Geocache somewhere in this park, but we never managed to locate it. Dison is small, but if you have a little one, it's probably just the right size for him or her to take the edge off before sleepy time.

Myrtle Grove Park is in the Myrtle Grove neighborhood of Miami Gardens. The park is a block away…read morefrom the reservoir Myrtle Lake and two miles from the Hard Rock Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins. The Myrtle Grove neighborhood is part of Carol City which along with other neighborhoods was incorporated as Miami Gardens on May 13, 2003. At the heart of the Myrtle Grove community is Myrtle Grove Park providing outdoor recreational opportunities for neighborhood residents. The park has tall trees, a shade covered playground with climbing equipment, slides, and swings,, tennis courts, a basketball court, restrooms, and a multipurpose field that was being enjoyed by a group playing a casual football game on the day I visited. The park is the host site for the small tots' football game program for ages five. Next to the park is the Myrtle Grove Pool which is closed and drained. It looks neglected which leaks over to the park next door. Hopefully the pool will be repaired returning vibrancy to this neighborhood recreational hub.