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Beauty is the name of the the Keys ...... 2 Welcome to game here. From fashion models to deco hotels to Miami & beach sunrises to a wetland 15 Top Experiences ...... 6 the Keys ecosystem to alluring islands, South is an Need to Know ...... 14 aesthetic masterpiece. If You Like...... 16 Month by Month ...... 20 / NELY PLANET IMAGES© Itineraries ...... 24 The Magic City PHOTOLIBRARY © Arts & the Edge is a land of dreams. Miami In Miami proper and Miami Beach, the is known as the Magic City. However you newest neighborhoods are the districts cut it, imagination and innovation are big where the creative community is opening here, manifesting themselves in art, ar- the best restaurants, bars and clubs (and here “the newest” and “the best” often go COUNCOCOUNTRYTRY & CCICITYTY REGIONAL DISCOVERDISCOVERVE TRIPS chitecture and festivals. You see it in the extravagance of Lincoln Rd to the ephem- hand in hand). Sometimes this takes the Travel with Children ...... 29 form of massive public investment real- eral neon beauty of Ocean Ave; from the cloud-kissing skyline of downtown Miami ized in architectural masterpieces like the to the shells of empty condos that bank- Adrienne Arsht Center and the New World Cultural Themed itineraries Building, two impressive performing arts TheTh originali i l • Best-ofB tf • rupted their speculators; from the pink • • castle walls of a Coral Gables mansion to spaces that have spruced up Miami and the dark, sexy lounges of ; and Miami Beach respectively. Sometimes it from the Faberge-egg interior of the Viz- takes the form of young artists using open Regions at a Glance ...... 34 houses, gallery nights and special studio Day trips & Inspirational & caya Museum to an experimental art piece Comprehensive • Photo-packed • shows to gentrify entire swathes of neigh- • • in Midtown. Stay in Miami long enough borhood. In both ways, greater Miami is and you might believe magic is real. growing, physically and culturally. • Adventurous itineraries • Inspirational practical ideas 11

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Miami’s signature style – features guided tours January the city’s many clusters deco structures, concer The beginning of the classic-auto shows, side new year also happens Looking for other travel resources? cafés, and vendors of a to be the height of the and antiques. Held in m in these January. parts. Expect fair weather, crowds, higher prices than ing Up Marveling at usual and a slew of special Miami Jewis events. 3 Film Festivadtown Miami Coral Gables’ This international MiamiÀ lm is a city that Mansions val (www.miamijewishÀ Orange Bowl 0 loves its indulgences, Coral Gables (p 71 ) 2 Hordes of football festival.com) getse a greatest larg of these is 11 is called the City fans descend on Miami for amount of attentionmeal. ou If you really want Beautiful with good reason. the Super Bowl of college of Miami, and isy a with grea your taste buds football, the infamous Or- chance to cinematically ange Bowl (www.orangebowl kibitz (chat) with one o Florid a .org). The entire city gets a biggest Jewish commun youthful demographic shot in the USA. The Key W in the arm, while team rival- ries simmer in sports bars. Wildlife 333 Environme Quirkiness 333 Arts 33 Camping 333 Food 33

Gator Gawking Mangrove Wildlife viewing is good Hammock in the Glades any time of The Keys ar year, but if you visit in the cal anomaly

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Miami & the Keys if Miami were Today ...... 170 100 people Lonely Planet in numbers History ...... 172 lack militia and started sweating the notion of slav ack lantation yard. By 1821, the USA had urcha 70 12 100,000,000 190+ S ain, but the presence of Native Americans and esca More South than the rice of the land was to be paid for in blood. 9 languages spoken seconds pass Lonely Planet guidebooks countries covered stant by our writers between posts sold, and still counting by a Lonely Planet South ...... 180 15 would be White 1 would be Native American 10,000 BC 500 BC (non-Hispanic) 65 would be Hispanic on our Thorn Tree guide After crossing the Pottery from this T 2 18 would be Black 1 would be Asian Haute or Not ...... 189 Bering Strait from period is attributed C igious Siberia some 50,000 to the Glades Culture, travel forum years earlier, humans which stretches from th Bikes, Boats & arrive in Florida, the Keys to present- hunting mastodon and day Martin county, saber-toothed tigers, north of Miami. The Is Beaches ...... 197 at the end of the last Glades Culture does so Ice Age. not survive European STAY IN TOUCH contact. Swamp Thing ...... 204 lonelyplanet.com/contact Art-Deco Miami ...... 213 AUSTRALIA Locked Bag 1, Footscray, Victoria 3011 twitter.com/ %03 8379 8000, fax 03 8379 8111 lonelyplanet

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The Everglades p118 Miami p38

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Directory A–Z ...... 220

s oft Transportation ...... 229 inte Transportation Sout Aerol (www. Index ...... 242 GETTING THERE ami is more of a termination AeroM of highways and rail lines, mexico & AWAY rather than a major land- Air Ca Nearly all international trav- transit interchange area. canada elers come to South Florida Flights, tours and rail tick- Map Legend ...... 247 by air, while most US travel- Air Fra ets can be booked online at .com) ers prefer air or car. Getting www.lonelyplanet.com Air Ja to South Florida by bus is a /bookings. distant third option and by jamai train an even more distant Air fourth. Miami is a major .air nternational airline hub, Air A rticularly for American Unless you live in or near es, and it’s the À rst port Florida, Á ying to the region or many Á ights from and then renting a car is the rica and the Ca- most time-e՗ cient optio Áights come ional Airports & Air

THIS EDITION WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY Adam Karlin Every listing is recommended by our authors, and their favourite places are listed first

Look out for these icons: Our author’s top A green or No payment o recommendation S sustainable option F required See the Index for a full list of destinations covered in this book.

On the Road

MIAMI ...... 38

THE EVERGLADES . . 118 ...... 119 ...... 119 Homestead to Flamingo Point ...... 128 ...... 132

FLORIDA KEYS & KEY WEST ...... 135 UPPER KEYS...... 139 Key Largo & Tavernier . . . .139 Islamorada ...... 142 Long Key ...... 145 MIDDLE KEYS ...... 145 Grassy Key ...... 145 Marathon ...... 147 LOWER KEYS ...... 149 Big Pine, Bahia Honda & Looe Key ...... 150 Sugarloaf & Boca Chica Keys ...... 152 KEY WEST ...... 153 › Miami & the Keys

26º15'N 81º45'W 81º30'W 81º15'W 81º00'W 80º45'W 80º30'W Big Cypress Swamp

Naples e s d Miami Canal l a Big Cypress g r National Preserve e 26º00'N v E Collier- e Marco h T Island State Park Ochopee

Everglades City Cape Romano Chokoloskee 10,000 25º45'N Islands Chevelier Bay The Everglades Alligator-spotting and Big bird-watching (p118) Lostmans Bay 25º30'N

Florida City

G u l f o f Everglades Shark National Park M e x i c o Point Whitewater 25º15'N Bay Hell's Bay Hell's Bay Cape Kayak into the Sable Everglades’ heart (p130) Flamingo Florida Bay 25º00'N Tavernier Plantation Key Key West Plantation Hemingway drank here; Islamorada shouldn't you? (p153) Lignumvitae Key Indian Key s e y K r Layton p e U p 24º45'N Duck Key Big Grassy Key a Cudjoe Little Pine i d Great White Pine s r Key Key y l o Heron National Key Marathon Ke F Wildlife Refuge Boot l e f Big Bahia d d o Honda Key Mi s Pine Bahia ai t Key Sugarloaf Honda Key St r West Key State Park

24º30'N Key West Ke y s Lo we r See Inset Bahia Honda State Park Overseas Highway Camp on this sunny Tropical road trip shoreline (p150) of a lifetime (p27)

24º15'N Top Experiences › Boca Raton Deerfield Beach North Beach Sun-worship in pretty parks and secluded coves (p53) Fort Lauderdale

Design District Hop between galleries Hollywood andand studios studios (p000) (p61)

North Beach Miami Beach Pick from an intense variety of bars (p104) Hialeah Miami Beach Miami Key A T L A N T I C Eat in Miami's Biscayne culinary frontier (p99) O C E A N

Florida Keys Biscayne National Marine See titans of deco design National Sanctuary (p42) Park Elliott Key South Beach Spot celebrities on John Pennekamp Collins Ave (p42) Coral Reef State Park

Key Overtown Largo Edgy clubs host Key Largo live music (p107) National Marine Key Sanctuary Largo Calle Ocho Explore 's pulsing Latin heart (p67)

Coral Gables 0 30 km Marvel at mansions 0 20 miles and villas (p71) ELEVATION

Coral Gables 500ft Hunting ghosts in opulent 0 Biltmore Hotel (p71)

A T L A N T I C Dry Tortugas National Park & Key West National Wildlife Refuge 24º45'N O C E A N

Dry Tortugas National Park

Key West 24º30'N National Wildlife Refuge

83º00'W 82º45'W 82º30'W 82º15'W

80º15'W OUR STORY A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their fi rst travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies. Lonely Planet was born. Today, Lonely Planet has offi ces in Melbourne, London and Oakland, with more than 600 staff and writers. We share Tony’s belief that ‘a great guidebook should do three things: inform, educate and amuse’. OUR WRITERS Adam Karlin Coordinating Author Adam grew up, as so many Americans do, with grand- parents in Florida, and fondly remembers many a December snowbirding in West Palm Beach. Later in life he worked as a reporter for the Key West Citizen. What followed was a period of writing on trailer-park evictions, mosquito- eating guppies, melodramatic local government hearings (is there any other kind?) and Cuban boat people, plus short stints working as a radio DJ and bouncer in the Keys. Eventually he was hired by Lonely Planet to cover South Florida in all her myriad weirdness. Since then he’s written or contributed to over two dozen guidebooks for the company, almost always in tropical places: the Southern USA, Caribbean, Africa and Southeast Asia. It’s a living. Follow Adam at www.walkonfi ne.com. Read more about Adam at: lonelyplanet.com/members/adamkarlin

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Itiner- Whether you’ve got six days or 60, these itineraries provide a aries starting point for the trip of a lifetime. Want more inspiration? Head online to lonelyplanet. com/thorntree to chat with other travelers

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We’d recommend starting your trip in South Beach, Miami, which encapsulates the best and worst of what South Florida has to off er. Take hotels like the Delano, Tides and the Shore Club, places that capture both the sheer aesthetic innovation and off -putting exclusivity of the South Beach experience. Enjoy the people watching on Lincoln Rd and a tour of the Art Deco Historic District. Using South Beach as a base, spend the next few days exploring some of Miami’s neigh- borhoods, including the Latin fl avor of Little Havana, the Euro-style cafes and mansions of Coral Gables and the art galleries, excellent food and bumping nightlife around Wyn- wood and the Design District. Four or fi ve days is a good amount of time to get a feel for Miami. Spend the remainder of your time embarking on either our Overseas Highway Road Trip or the Everglades National Park trips following, making sure to spend at least a day and a night in Key West and visit the Royal Palm Visitor Center in the Everglades. PLAN YOUR TRIP ITINERARIES 25 . , the sh and sh fi , taking in Adrienne OCEAN NORTH , making sure ATLANTIC Jimbo's rsthand the opulent Biltmore Hotel Beach fi Miami #• Miami Calle Ocho Calle #• Key #• Virginia Vizcaya Museum & Gardens Museum Vizcaya Key before doing as the locals do with a . museum and the gorgeous Biscayne . #• Miami River La Moon #• Tobacco Road #• on , a sort of bar-squatter camp a sort of bar-squatter on Virginia Key, #• s ’ #• El Carajo see what happens when Mediterranean revival,see what happens when Mediterranean st of steel and glass that shadows rough alley-st of steel and glass that shadows rough fi . Have a stroll along the . Have Vizcaya Museum & Gardens #• Miami History Tobacco Road Tobacco Jimbo Center for the Center HistoryMiami Adrienne Arsht Adrienne #• Performing Arts Performing Metta Boutique Metta #• . ea markets. Take a long ride on the free , hop- a long ride on the free Metromover, ea markets. Take Calle Ocho fl #• Little Havana shermen, where the manatees sometimes swim right up to the fi El Carajo Metta . Before you leave, guzzle a beer and pick at some smoked guzzle a beer and pick at some smoked . Before you leave, Boutique La Moon Grove Coconut these elegant manses with dinner at one of the best restaurants a visit to ff Coral Gables (possibly the loveliest public pool in the USA) and a shopping stroll down (possibly the loveliest public pool in the USA) to see the excellent #• ff Pool #• Venetian Miami Crandon Park Start in Downtown, a glittering Start in Downtown, a glittering Hotel On this trip you’ll ethnic enclaves, getexperience to some of the best of Miami’s and witness hobnob in some of its wealthiest neighborhoods magic that gives this city the nickname ‘Themagic that gives this city City’. Magic Days Biltmore The next day, head to Coral Gables, making sure not to miss the The next day, On the third day, head to Little Havana and have a stroll down and have Havana head to Little On the third day, sunbathing and bliss in enjoying beaches, exploring Biscayne, Key Spend your last day lled with old pirates and Five Five Miami: Downtown to South Miami ping on and o ways and cheap international ways the sunset and romantic seediness (try station, for not to walk too far from the Metromover a beer at At night, have sake). safety’s Colombian hot dog at Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Arsht Center for the Performing Venetian Pool Venetian money and Baroque stylings get mashed together the at Miracle Mile. If that isn’t opulent enough, Mile. Miracle Afterwards, top o in – no kidding – a gas station at in Miami fascinating stories on the couches of areas like areas like fi adjacent docks. to watch the dominoes at Máximo Gómez Park. Have a Cuban lunch, browse the local cigar Have Gómez Park. to watch the dominoes at Máximo re- been utterly have hippies of yesterday shops, then pop over to , where the karmic vibe under the banyan still some good there’s Well, placed with the yuppies of today. the trees in the form of stores like

are OCEAN NORTH ATLANTIC ne to explore. (classy Italian) The Stage fi . Taken together, together, . Taken ; the former is one of . BBar Center #• Art Deco Mid Welcome #• Beach #• #• #• nd an excellent boardwalk #• fi #• to people-watch and browse #• #• and venues like and venues like North Beach South Beach Churchill’s Osteria del Teatro Osteria del Teatro design museum to get background Ta p Ta p and Bardot Abraxas Lounge Wolfsonian-FIU Bay Osteria del Teatro Biscayne Abraxas Lounge Lincoln Road owering just north of here in shady fl . This is one of the most colorful, recognizably ‘for- DJs and live music and get your dance on. Wolfsonian-FIU Wolfsonian-FIU Sweat Records . For a nice dinner try . For nd Buena Vista fi . To get here you’ll – rows pass through the Condo Canyons . To #• . At night, clubs like . At night, clubs like #• The Stage #• and some beers at the #• #• Little Haiti Little #• Biscayne Boulevard B Bar Bardot Wynwood and the art spaces of galleries and studio North Beach North Churchhill's & Miami Sweat Records The Design District and (psychedelic Haitian). When you’re ready to hit the town (and the rails), we sug- When you’re (psychedelic Haitian). Biscayne Boulevard Biscayne

Startits excellent your trip in South Beach and use this region and hotels as your sure you visit the base. Make on the surrounding art deco. Head for on the surrounding art deco. Head a tour with the lovely folks to not take be remiss the trendy shops; afterwards, you’d Art Deco Welcome Center Art Deco Welcome

Tap Tap Tap After a few days of exploring Midtown and South Beach, head north along Collins Ave to Beach, head north After and South of exploringa few Midtown along Collins Ave days You can easily make a day out of visiting Little Haiti, so the next morning go to the trendy Haiti, of visiting Little out a day can easily make You The next day, check out The next day,

Miami: Miami Beach& North Miami Five Days Five at the these neighborhoods constitute Midtown Miami, the most self-consciously artsy-creative the most Miami, these neighborhoods constitute Midtown easy to walk around and good The Design District is a compact area that’s section of the city. hun- these ain’t starving loaded; artists, If you’re apparently). for shopping (assuming you’re head to one of the new restaurants gry, or along Mid-Beach great spots to wet your whistle, watch A half mile south of here you’ll is a down and dirty punk pub. British best music shops, while the latter Miami’s Design District or gest early cocktails at strolling near the sand. if you feel like and rows of glittering residential skyscrapers, all testament to the power of real estate in residential skyscrapers, and rows of glittering the north near Mid-Beach, end of South Beach, you’ll In Miami. eign’ neighborhoods in Miami, and it can be edgy at night, but by day you’re and it can be edgy you’re neighborhoods in Miami, at night, but by day eign’

26 PLAN YOUR TRIP ITINERARIES PLAN YOUR TRIP ITINERARIES 27 . . ord it, ff # • Indian Key Indian OCEAN TLANTIC A einate yourself einate

É ff Key Largo Coral Reef State Park John Pennekamp John # •

É deer prance Key , where tiny Center , geographic center of the Keys. If, geographic center of the Keys. . Truly, this island deserves its own . Truly,

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# • St Florida Keys Wild # • Islamorada Bird Rehabilitation elds of scrub pine and mangroves. Onelds of scrub pine and mangroves.

É fi Big Pine Key rst day in the Keys – if you can a in the Keys rst day fi Indian Key # • Key West Marathon t, hire a kayak and paddle out to and t, hire a kayak fi Robbie's Marina Midway Cafe rst you have to go through the Upper Keys, larger Keys, to go through the Upper rst you have fi Florida Keys Wild Bird RehabilitationFlorida Keys Center É Bay lorida F . Wake up the next morning and feed the enormous tarpon . Wake Marathon # • sh or birds, tear into some lunch at the lovely Key Largosh or birds, tear into some lunch at the lovely Key fi .

É , and if you’re feeling , and if you’re Morada Bay Morada # • Key Big Pine Midway Cafe Midway Gulf of Mexico É Overseas Highway Road Trip The Everglades The Overseas Highway (Hwy 1) runs from the tip of the Florida mainland all the way The Overseas Highway the end of the road and the end of America. West, 0: Key Marker to the famed Mile oddest at- As you’ll down, markers you tick the mile be treated to some of Florida’s tractionsGulf of Mexico on one side, the and the ever-inspiring view of Florida Bay , or visit the injured birds at the Robbie’s Marina Robbie’s It’d be good to sleep in Islamorada on your be good to sleep in Islamorada It’d Well, OK, but you’ll Well, get to that view, Another hour’s drive south and you’re in drive south and you’re Another hour’s Wake up and cross the Seven-Mile Bridge onto up and cross the Seven-Mile Wake By midday you’ll By midday arrived at easily have # • Key West Three Days Three Overseas Road Trip Highway itinerary sure you don’t miss the sunset – just make show in Mallory Sq, the six-toed cats at the mother of all Keys and a night out at the infamous Green Parrot, House Hemingway’s bars. northerly Largo, Key check out the diving options at Park Conch House. islands that block the view big of the water via activities among Aftera day’s splurge at excellent on the other. alongside the road. you’re curious and fancyKeys about the unique ecological background of the a walk in theyou’re if sea turtles happen to be your thing, Museum; visit to the a woods, head to the Crane Point Eat dinner over the water at be in order. may Hospital good doctors at the sanctuary Turtle grab a beer at Hurricane. Fisheries, then Keys When you’re done you’ll sure you ca sapped, so make When you’re be feeling a little likely at the excellent at

. ats at ats , good fl , where OCEAN , a fantas- Pinelands . ATLANTIC Pahayokee Pahayokee , a maudlin Hell’s Bay Hell’s #• Everglades Out- Everglades É Florida City Homestead/ Everglades Hostel Everglades Robert Is Here Robert Is and boating in Florida Bay #• Visitor Center nd fi Royal Palm Trips #• Airboat , with views over the Zen quiet of Drive south from Miami to Home- Drive south from Miami #• Pinelands Trailhead

É This route into the Everglades takes This route into the Everglades in vistas of long prairies and cypress domes. Flamingo Visitor Center Flamingo , which takes you through a grove of you through a , which takes Royal Palm Visitor Center Royal Palm , an animal hospital for exotic critters. #• #• Push west to see some of the most im- Push and spend the back to Florida City Head The next morning head back into the River Grass of Point stead/Florida City (adjoining towns), and (adjoining stead/Florida City pull over by the monument to unrequited love. You’ll then monument to unrequited love. You’ll Park, National be just outside Everglades where you’ll market–produce stand–petting tic farmer’s zoo. Continue on to the post Two Days pressive points within the park, including the lead over dark waterways prowledwalkways by enormous alligators; the Trail skeleton-thin swamp pine; and Overlook the greater Glades. night in the fantastic É É great Glades and push further south – there’s and canoeing at kayaking low country over the windswept mud Christian Point at the #• Christian Tram Tour Overlook #• Shark Valley É ; The Everglades Bay Pahayokee Hell's #• ce ce ffi Gallery nest fi #• shing Big Cypress fi Visitor Center Flamingo (the other Shark Val- Big Cypress

É Joannie's Blue Crab Café #• #• Research #• Skunk Ape to the entrance to Shark Headquarters Ochopee or rent a bicycle the from

Everglades City Everglades É Blue Crab Café Joannie’s #• Skunk Ape Research Head- ; and stop by the , a delightfully weird zoo, gift shop Along the Tamiami Trail River of Grass , which contains some of the Gulf of Mexico City This you into the heart route takes of consider the stereotypicalwhat many airboat tours through wa- Everglades: terlogged wetlands, cypress swamps

Everglades airboat tours

Ochopee Go west on Tamiami Trail (US 41) past (US Trail Go west on Tamiami on to Push The back toward Miami. head next day Valley. Take the well-regarded Take Valley. front kiosk and ride back on an asphalt path (the same one used by the tram) that curves almost guaranteed a into the swamp. You’re glimpse of alligators and wading birds. ley Tram Tour ley Tram can be revisited Trail sights on the Tamiami on the return a warm hamlet trip to Miami), that once made its custom smuggling into is more tied to thethe swamps but today tourism trade. Stop at the quarters and Bigfoot hunting camp; have lunch at lunch and Bigfoot hunting camp; have the excellent check out the country’s smallest post o check out the country’s in Gallery

Along the Tamiami Trail Two Days crawling with gators; with a stay in a gators; with a stay with crawling village. the photos of the beauty of the Glades. photos of the beauty

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