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Where to Stay in Miramar, Florida
Miramar spreads across the southern edge of Broward County, Florida, a suburb of the Miami metropolitan area and the fourth-largest city in the county.
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Where to stay in Miramar
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Brian Piccolo Park anchors the eastern stays. Rooms near it put the Ansin Sports Complex and the county parkland within a short drive, which is the reason most visitors book here at all, a tournament, a meet, or a weekend of fixtures rather than a holiday. Traffic thins after the games.
The older Pioneer City tract lies on the same side, and the streets around it are residential to the point of quiet, with almost nothing open late. Westward the city runs out toward open country, where the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds and the Miami-Hollywood Motorsports Park mark the last built ground before the land empties, and beds out here suit anyone with a car and an early start. Thirty-one square miles is a lot of city.
Distances inside Miramar are real, so the choice between the Brian Piccolo Park side and the western end is a choice about which drive to make twice a day. Broward County is the wider frame. Calder Race Course, the Miami Lakes Athletic Club and the rest of the Miami metropolitan area sit close enough that a stay here works as a base for the whole southern county.
About Miramar
What is Miramar known for?
Brian Piccolo Park and the Ansin Sports Complex give Miramar its public face. Motorsport runs deep on this ground, from the Miami-Hollywood Motorsports Park to the Fulford-Miami Speedway, while the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds keep a different kind of arena going within reach. Pioneer City names an older tract.
The Miami Lakes Athletic Club and Calder Race Course lie within the same short stretch of the Miami metropolitan area, and both draw crowds that a residential suburb rarely generates on its own.
What are the main landmarks in Miramar?
Brian Piccolo Park is the biggest open space attached to the city, with the Ansin Sports Complex inside it. The rest of the roll is scattered and varied: the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds, the Miami-Hollywood Motorsports Park, the Fulford-Miami Speedway and Calder Race Course, every one of them a venue for sport rather than a museum or a monument. Houses fill the older column.
The Griffiths House, the Helms House and the Long House survive from the era before the subdivisions, and the Sunshine State Arch belongs to the same short list of protected structures.
What is the history of Miramar?
No charter year is recorded for Miramar in the material here. What the record does carry is a set of names older than the subdivisions: Pioneer City, the Griffiths House, the Helms House and the Long House, each of them predating the grid that covers the southern edge of Broward County. Two racetracks sit in the same record.
The Fulford-Miami Speedway belongs to the motor-racing history of this corner of the Miami metropolitan area, alongside the Miami-Hollywood Motorsports Park and Calder Race Course. Growth came with the metropolitan area rather than ahead of it, and Miramar ended up among the larger cities of Broward County by taking in the westward push of housing rather than by building a centre of its own. There is no old downtown to point at.
The Ansin Sports Complex and Brian Piccolo Park stand in for a civic core, and the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds hold a plainer, older use of the same open land. Miramar ranks fourth among the cities of Broward County and sits well up the list for Florida as a whole, a scale reached entirely through suburban expansion rather than through any single industry or port.
Where is Miramar?
Miramar occupies flat ground on the southern edge of Broward County, running west from the built-up Miami metropolitan area toward emptier country. Thirty-one square miles in all. Nothing rises here: no hill, no ridge and no river cuts the shape of the city, and the county's southern limit is a surveyor's line rather than a feature anyone could point to on the ground.
Brian Piccolo Park breaks the grid.
What is the climate of Miramar?
Rain defines the year here, not temperature. The wet months bring afternoon build-ups that break over Brian Piccolo Park and the western flats before clearing, and the dry stretch that follows is when Broward County fills with visitors from colder places. Damp air never lets up in Miramar.
Subtropical air sits over the whole southern county, so a January afternoon and a July one differ mainly in how much water falls out of the sky.
How do you get to Miramar?
Miramar keeps no station or airport of its own. Arrivals come by road from across the Miami metropolitan area, and the run out to the southern edge of Broward County is short enough that many visitors sleep here and spend their days elsewhere. Brian Piccolo Park is the usual signpost.
Calder Race Course, the Ansin Sports Complex and the Miami-Hollywood Motorsports Park all sit on the same network of county roads, so a car covers everything a stay here is likely to need.
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Updated August 2026