Minutes from Biscayne Bay and the Beaches

North Miami is a place where people enjoy life! With a subtropical climate and all the parks, it is a haven for outdoor recreational activities like running, bicycling, and boating, along with miles of sandy beaches close by or golf and tennis at the Miami Shores Country Club. The city of North Miami is home to the Oleta River State Park, the largest urban park in the State. The park offers kayaking, mountain biking, camping in air conditioned cabins, swimming, fishing, and picnicking. The park also is home to a Butterfly Garden and the Blue Marlin Restaurant which offers typical seafood dishes such as the delicious smoked fish and wraps.

North Miami offers its residents enthralling and inspiring points of interest like the Museum of Contemporary Art. Exhibits, educational programs and outdoor concerts make the city a perfect venue for weekend entertainment with family, local friends or out-of-town guests. The gift shop located inside the museum has a large selection of contemporary art books among many other curiosities. North Miami is also the capital of South Florida’ s film, video and recording industry. Some of the best known television and film productions in North Miami include: Star Trek, Miami Vice, Flipper; Nightly Business Report, MTV Latino, True Lies, The Specialist, License to Kill, Unsolved Mysteries, Striptease, and others. Among the artists recording and filming music videos in the City are Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Whitney Houston, the Bee Gees, R.E.M, the Eagles, and Bob Dylan.

In the final phase of Indian inhabitation of the area that eventually became "North Miami", United States Army Soldiers in 1856 cut a Military Trail through nearly impassable thickets and rivers connecting Fort Lauderdale to Fort Dallas at the mouth of the Miami River. This eight –foot trail , Dade County’s first roadway, crossed a unique natural bridge in an area that would attract a settlement that early on would be known as Arch Creek. Even before 1890 a handful of adventuresome pioneers spent brief periods around the Arch Creek Natural Bridge, a centuries-old Indian settlement.

The Biscayne's revitalization has transformed an urban neighborhood into a chic community by a flood of private investment. Trendy shopping centers (Keystone Executive Plaza, Biscayne Commons, …) retailers (Filene’s Basement, Sport’s Authority), car dealerships (Lamborghini, Lexus, Audi, Mercedes) have made Biscayne Boulevard from North Miami to Aventura, their home place of business. At the north east corner of 135th street and Biscayne Blvd is Keystone Executive Plaza, place of Einstein Bagels, Starbuck coffee, Ben and Jerry, Jamba Juice, Great Wraps,.. At 147th street, among the shops at Biscayne Commons are Fridays, Paul’s, Pasha, Lime, Cigar Bar, Oishi Thai and Sushi, Pizza Fusion, Publix, Petco, etc.. The master-planned development, Biscayne Landing, on 154th street will feature approximately 100,000 square feet of commercial office and retail space, 2,800 to 5,000 residential units, a park and recreation facilities, and a hotel. The city’s library will be renovated, a charter school, Olympic training facility will be built. A portion of the Biscayne Landing site includes some of the wetlands of Biscayne Bay, which will be preserved in the form of a 35 acre environmental park, containing nature hikes, jogging paths, information plaques that describe the resident wildlife and trees, benches, a canoe landing and a boat house. It will have connecting trails to Oleta river state park.