Amelia Earhart Park
| Amelia Earhart Park | |
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 Lakeshore near the park's main road, a disk golf course in the distance |
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| Type | Municipal |
| Location | Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States |
| Area | 497 acres (2.01 km2) |
| Created | 1980 |
| Operated by | Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department |
| Website | Amelia Earhart Park |
Amelia Earhart Park is a 497-acre (2.01 km2) urban park in metropolitan Miami, just north Hialeah, Florida. It offers a number of recreational attractions like bike trails, skateboarding, and fishing.
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[edit] History
The park was a part of the Miami Municipal Airport at Masters Field, what became Opa-locka Airport, and opened to traffic in 1926. A portion of the land was renamed in honor of Amelia Earhart and dedicated as Amelia Earhart Field in October 1947.[1] The General Services Administration closed the naval air station, and later the marine air station, in 1959 as part of cutbacks to military surplus.[2] Most of the former air station was donated to Dade County for use as a general aviation airport in the mid 1960s and it became Opa-locka Airport. Development of the Amelia Earhart Park was completed in 1980.[3]
[edit] Facilities
The park offers 8-mile (13 km) of bike trails. They include single track and fire road trails with a number of climbs, downhills, and banked corners. The Bill Graham Farm Village is a farm replica featuring a demonstration shed where visitors can watch horseshoeing, cow-milking, livestock judging and sheep shearing, as well as a petting zoo, exhibit hall, sugar cane press and pony ring. Near the barn is a country store and an adjoining insect museum.
There is fenced, 5-acre (20,000 m2) dog park, an 18-hole disc golf course, and other amenities which include paved walkways, benches, shade trees, waste dispenser stations.
[edit] See also
[edit] Gallery
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A bike path through Australian pines
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Fishing dock by a lake across near bike trails
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ "Pageant to Climax Navy Celebrations". Miami Daily News. 26 October 1947. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qgktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=atYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3182%2C4548248. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
- ^ "Dade Close to Getting 3 Airfields". Miami Daily News. 16 February 1959. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R8cyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GOwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5496%2C586222. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
- ^ Morton Lucoff (20 June 1980). "It's Up, Up for Fees and Away for Services". The Miami News. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cZUlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PvMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2529%2C3614993. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
- Bibliography
- MTB Review, http://trails.mtbr.com/cat/united-states-trails/trails-florida/trail/PRD_167456_4540crx.aspx, 2006
- South Florida dot Com, http://www.southflorida.com/visitor/18930,0,2728812.venue?coll=sfe-visitor-utility, 2006
Coordinates: 25°53′11″N 80°16′43″W / 25.8862646°N 80.2786059°W
