Where to Stay in Margate, Florida

What is Margate known for?

Margate is a residential city of Broward County first, and its visitor interest comes from the parks and small museums scattered around it rather than from any quarter of its own that a tourist would recognise. Central Broward Regional Park handles the open space. The South Florida Railway Museum, the Coral Springs Museum of Art and the Ely Educational Museum sit within the same suburban spread, close enough that one afternoon covers two of them.

What are the main landmarks in Margate?

Butterfly World keeps the aviaries, Central Broward Regional Park keeps the playing fields, and the Coral Springs Museum of Art and the Coral Springs Center for the Arts carry the exhibitions and the stage. Two houses hold the older record. The Sample-McDougald House and the Sample Estate stand for the period before the suburbs, while the South Florida Railway Museum and the Ely Educational Museum hold the smaller collections.

Congregations account for the rest: Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale and Our Lady of Health Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of Miami.

What is the history of Margate?

Not much of Margate's past is written down. Margate is an incorporated city of Broward County rather than a settlement grown around a harbour or a crossing, and no founding year is recorded for it, so its beginning has to be read from the buildings that remain. Two names do that work.

The Sample-McDougald House and the Sample Estate carry a single family's name into the present, which is the closest thing the city has to a founding document. What followed was suburban, and the Miami metropolitan area is the reason: Broward County filled in with housing tracts, schools and churches while the older estates stayed put among them. The churches date that expansion as well as anything.

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale and Our Lady of Health Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of Miami each mark a congregation settled among the newer streets. The 2020 census recorded Margate as one of Broward County's cities inside the Miami metropolitan area. Suburban building did the rest.

The South Florida Railway Museum and the Ely Educational Museum keep the rail and school histories in rooms rather than in the streets.

Where is Margate?

Margate covers a little over twenty square kilometres. Broward County holds the city inside the wider Miami metropolitan area, an unbroken run of suburb where one municipality gives way to the next without much sign on the ground that it has. Central Broward Regional Park is the largest open ground on the list, and Butterfly World's gardens account for much of the rest.

The subtropical band covers all of it.

What is the climate of Margate?

Margate's year splits in two, not four. The subtropical band that runs across Broward County gives Margate a wet, warm half of the year and a drier, gentler one, which is the split that matters when planning a day at Butterfly World. Mornings are the outdoor hours.

Central Broward Regional Park is best taken early, and the Coral Springs Museum of Art or the Ely Educational Museum makes the better use of an afternoon.

How do you get to Margate?

The car does the work. Margate keeps no station and no terminal, so arrivals come through the wider Miami metropolitan area and finish on the county roads that link one Broward County suburb to the next. Parking is rarely the problem.

Butterfly World and Central Broward Regional Park both sit within a short drive, and the Coral Springs Center for the Arts is not much further.