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South Florida - spots to check out!
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items Traveling to South Florida or live in this area and haven't been? These are some of my FAVORITE places to check out in this area.
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Restaurants
Other Food & Drinks
Arts & Entertainment
Local Favorites
Outdoor Activities
This Park is a great activity spot for your family! So many things to do here, from the huge park for your children to play to the Children's Science Explorium, The Carousel, The Field House, and Willow Theatre. The Sugar Sand Park Community Center p...
Sugar Sand Park Community Center | Boca Raton, FL
With Coconut Creek, FL being the butterfly capital of the world you know their Butterfly World Museum is going to be good. Actually it's amazing, my family and I love it! It's so beautiful and serene there, I love going through this butterfly conserv...
Butterfly World
The Lion Country Drive-Thru Safari is SO COOL! Instead of going to a Zoo where all the animals are lazy because they are confined to a small area, go here! The animals roam around the whole park like it's the wild, and you get to drive through the pa...
Lion Country Safari: Drive-Through Safari & Adventure Park
If you love the Zoo then you HAVE TO check out Zoo Miami! This place is seriously THE BEST zoo I've ever been too. It is so gigantic my family and I couldn't even see all the animals and attractions they had in one day. Not to mention we couldn't eve...
Zoo Miami
This is a great indoor farmer's market. All their produce is priced really well, especially with how expensive food is nowadays! This place is definitely a hidden gem!
99 Farmer’s Market
Great little outdoor one to check out. I love a great farmer's market, such fresh produce and food!
Coconut Creek Hometown Market
This is a great little hiking trail for the family. Perfect for my kids who are smaller and can't travel too far.
Oak Trails Park
Betti Stradling Splash Pad and Park is a perfect place to take the family on a nice day. It's a free splash pad great for a hot day. The playground is also great because it's all fenced in so you don't have to worry about your kids running off!
Betti Stradling Park
Oleta River State Park is an incredible place to bring the whole family! I love this place, so beautiful and I just love being submerged into nature here. The beach part is so wonderful for the family to swim and relax. Especially I feel way more saf...
Oleta River State Park
This botanical Japanese garden and museum is SO BEAUTIFUL, serene and relaxing! I love coming here for a beautiful nature walk and to take in all the amazing scenery.
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Delray Beach - Google Search
The Girls Strawberry U-Pick is a special little hidden gem of a place! It’s funny because it says it’s a strawberry patch but you definitely don’t pick strawberries. It’s so much more fun than that, that’s why it’s a hidden gem. It's an ice cream par...
The Girl's Strawberry U-Pick
Beautiful beach, love the area and all of the shops and restaurants. It's so easy to get to, tons of parking. My family and I always have a great time there! Plus on the 4th of July they did the most beautiful fireworks show off the fishing dock.
Deerfield Beach
This is a beautiful and great beach. Family friendly, tons of shops and restaurants. Great place to go relax and enjoy the scenery.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
Restaurants
All Star Pizza is the bomb! They have the best pizza, such a nice Mom and Pop spot. It's family owned and the staff is SUPER NICE. I love going here, all the food is great!
All Star Pizza - Parkland (West)
Colombian restaurant with really great food and ambience! I love taking my family here.
El Balcón de las Américas - Deerfield Beach
Cuban restaurant with really delicious food! My husband and his family has been coming here for years.
La Carreta · 301 N University Dr, Pembroke Pines, FL 33024
Other Food & Drinks
The Girls is a wonderful spot to get some homemade ice cream AND they have attractions to go with it! Check it out, this place is so much fun!
The Girl's Strawberry U-Pick
This sub shop is a Mom and Pop shop. You get the Philly and New York sub shop experience.
Sub Center
Arts & Entertainment
I've mention before and I'll mention it again. This Zoo is THE BEST! So huge and so much to see and do, you can't even do it in one day!
Zoo Miami
One of my favorite places in Coconut Creek! My kids love this place too!
Butterfly World
I love going here with my family! One of the coolest things to do in the area. Like where else can you drive around and see animals walk by your car!
Lion Country Safari
This is an amazing library! Beautifully grand and so many floors you could get lost in the labyrinth of books. Anything you could ever read is there. They also have really great and quiet study rooms. Pro Tip - You can use this library even if you do...
Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center
If you want to go to a classic carnival in the area then here you go! Some good old family fun!
All saints Carnival
This is the coolest arcade in this area! It's retro themed, all the games are classic, they have oldschool pinball machines from like the 30's to now! So cool! AND they have a bar, so twice the fun.
Silverball Retro Arcade
This is a nice little free museum for the Boca Raton area.
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Local art museum that is free, enough said. 😉
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Local Favorites
If you love flea markets then you have to check out this place. It's like a whole mall of different markets to venture off into!
Festival Marketplace