Where to Stay in Miami Gardens, Florida

What is Miami Gardens known for?

The track sits toward the eastern side, and the rest of the local register runs to small older houses, the Tinsman House, the Wheeler House, the Cravero House and the Haislip House, kept as landmarks of Miami-Dade County. Antioch Mission Baptist Church of Miami Gardens anchors the congregational record. Sunshine State Arch marks the road.

What are the main landmarks in Miami Gardens?

Calder Race Course is the largest single site in the city, and the Sunshine State Arch stands as a marker of the road that named the place. Five houses carry the rest: the Tinsman House, the Wheeler House, the Cravero House, the Etheredge House and the Haislip House. Nothing towers.

Antioch Mission Baptist Church of Miami Gardens holds the congregational record, and the roll of protected buildings here is domestic in scale rather than civic or monumental.

What is the history of Miami Gardens?

Miami Gardens took its charter in 2003, one of the youngest cities in Miami-Dade County, though the ground inside its limits had been settled and built on for decades before the paperwork existed. The name came from a road. Florida State Road 860 crosses the area and carries the name Miami Gardens Drive, and the city that formed around it borrowed the label wholesale.

Older buildings survive from the years before. The Tinsman House, the Wheeler House, the Cravero House, the Etheredge House and the Haislip House all stand from the period when this was unincorporated county land rather than a city with a council of its own. Antioch Mission Baptist Church of Miami Gardens belongs to the same earlier layer, a congregation rooted well before incorporation and still one of the fixed points of the western neighbourhoods.

Racing arrived early too. Calder Race Course opened on the eastern side and gave the district a name beyond the county long before the city existed to claim it. The limits drawn in 2003 followed roads and county lines: I-95 and Northeast 2nd Avenue to the east, Northwest 47th and Northwest 57th Avenues to the west, the Broward County line to the north and 151st Street to the south.

Where is Miami Gardens?

The city occupies level ground in Miami-Dade County, sixteen miles north of downtown Miami and immediately south of the Broward County line. Nineteen square miles of it. I-95 and Northeast 2nd Avenue mark the eastern edge, Northwest 47th and Northwest 57th Avenues the western, and 151st Street the southern boundary, which leaves a broad suburban rectangle with no river or ridge dividing it.

Miami Gardens Drive runs across the middle.

What is the climate of Miami Gardens?

Summers run long, wet and heavy in this part of Miami-Dade County, with afternoon storms building over the flat grid and clearing before dark while the humidity holds past sunset. Winter is the dry half. Miami Gardens sits in the subtropical band, so the swing across the year is a matter of rainfall and storm risk rather than of cold, and demand for rooms follows the drier months accordingly.

How do you get to Miami Gardens?

I-95 runs along the eastern boundary and is how most arrivals reach Miami Gardens, whether they come north from downtown Miami sixteen miles away or south across the Broward County line. Miami Gardens Drive crosses east to west. That same route, signed as Florida State Road 860, links the Northwest 57th Avenue side to the Calder Race Course end without leaving the city.

Northeast 2nd Avenue takes the local traffic.