Map of Miami

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• Neighbourhoods7
• Parks5
• Beaches3
• Historic sites3
• Landmarks2
• Museums2
• Nature preserves2
• Shopping2
• Trails2
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• Entertainment1
• Water feature1
• Wildlife1

Getting to Miami

• Miami International AirportMIA

  8 mi · about 20 min by road

  Eight miles west of downtown and the main US gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean, which is why the arrivals hall sounds the way it does. Rental cars, rideshare pickups and the Tri-Rail and Metrorail platforms all sit at the Miami Intermodal Center, reached from the terminal by the free Skytrain people mover, so add fifteen minutes to any plan that starts at the kerb. Downtown is twenty minutes without traffic and closer to forty-five at six in the evening; South Beach is a causeway further again.

• Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International AirportFLL

  28 mi · about 50 min by road

  Twenty-eight miles north and routinely cheaper to fly into, especially on low-cost carriers. The catch is the transfer: I-95 southbound in the afternoon can turn fifty minutes into ninety. The civilised alternative is Brightline, whose Fort Lauderdale station is a short rideshare from the terminals and which reaches MiamiCentral downtown in roughly half an hour. Price the airfare saving against two airport transfers before you book it.

• PortMiami

  The cruise terminals occupy Dodge Island in the middle of Biscayne Bay, linked to downtown by the Port Boulevard bridge and in plain sight of the Bayfront skyline. It handles well over eight million passenger movements a year, trading the title of world's busiest cruise port with Port Canaveral, which in practice means that on a heavy Saturday tens of thousands of people are all trying to reach the same causeways at the same hour. If you are sailing, treat the morning as a logistics problem rather than a sightseeing window.

• MiamiCentral (Brightline)

  The downtown rail hub, connected directly to the free Metromover and to Metrorail. Brightline runs north to Aventura, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach and Orlando on an hourly pattern, reaching West Palm Beach in about an hour and Orlando in roughly three and a half. It is the one piece of public transport in South Florida that visitors reliably enjoy using, and it makes a day trip north genuinely practical without a car.

• Tri-Rail and Metrorail

  Two commuter systems that meet the airport at the Miami Intermodal Center. Tri-Rail runs up the western side of the metro to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach on a commuter timetable; Metrorail runs a single elevated spine from Dadeland in the south through Brickell and downtown to Hialeah and the airport. Metrorail is useful for Brickell, downtown, Vizcaya and Coconut Grove. Neither goes to Miami Beach, and no rail line does.

• MacArthur Causeway

  The southern link between downtown Miami and South Beach, carrying I-395 and US-41 past the cruise terminals and the Venetian Islands. It is the causeway most visitors use and the one that jams first, particularly westbound on Sunday evenings and during any event at the arena. The drawbridge sections open for tall traffic, which is a normal delay rather than a fault.

• Julia Tuttle and Venetian Causeways

  Two alternatives worth knowing. The Julia Tuttle carries I-195 from the Design District and Wynwood side of the mainland to Mid-Beach and is the faster crossing when the MacArthur is stacked. The Venetian is the old low toll causeway that hops island to island with a separated path along it, slower by car and the most pleasant crossing in the city on a bike. Check the current toll arrangement before you use the Venetian.

• Rickenbacker Causeway

  The toll road from Brickell over to Virginia Key and Key Biscayne, and the only way onto the island by land. It climbs the Bear Cut and William Powell bridges, which gives it the best bay view any commuter in Miami has. Cyclists use it heavily at dawn, the beaches at Crandon Park and Bill Baggs are at the far end, and the causeway closes or restricts in a storm because it is the island's single road.

• Tamiami Trail (US-41)

  The old road west across the Everglades, which begins in Miami as SW 8th Street — Calle Ocho — and ends up in Naples. Shark Valley's visitor centre and 15-mile loop road sit on it about 25 miles west of the city, and the airboat operations and Miccosukee country are strung along the same stretch. There is no fuel for long sections and phone signal comes and goes. Fill up in the city.

• US-1 south towards Homestead and the Keys

  The route to the two things most visitors do not realise are within an hour: the Ernest F. Coe entrance to Everglades National Park and the Dante Fascell Visitor Center at Convoy Point for Biscayne National Park, both near Homestead. Keep going and US-1 becomes the Overseas Highway to Key Largo and Key West. Key West is a real day trip from Miami but a long one, which is why the Viator inventory sells it with a driver rather than a map.

Distances and drive times are typical, not promised — see today's conditions before you plan a tight connection.