Best Parks for Kids
Five Brickell family stops: a playground, a linear park, a hammock preserve, a baywalk, and a rainy-day mall loop.
The Hammock Playground at The Underline is the most direct kid stop here: a nature-inspired play environment at SW 15th Road and SW 1st Avenue, with room for active play under the Metrorail guideway.
- Best when: a real playground with shade and room to move
- Area: Brickell, Miami
- Specific: nature-inspired playground at SW 15th Road and SW 1st Avenue
The broader Underline is Miami's 10-mile linear park and urban trail, with open promenades for walking, biking, and rolling. Go when the kids want to move and you want a real path rather than a single playground stop.
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- Best when: biking, scootering, and a longer walk in one
- Area: Brickell, Miami
- Specific: 10-mile linear park and trail with promenades
Simpson Park Hammock is the nature-preserve pick, a pocket of old-growth tropical hammock kept by the City of Miami. Go when you want shade, trees, and a quiet walk that shows kids real Florida woodland.
- Best when: a shaded nature walk for curious kids
- Area: Brickell, Miami
- Specific: City of Miami hammock preserve park
The Brickell Key Baywalk is the island-loop option, forty-four acres of green space with the only continuous island Baywalk in Miami and more than 5,000 trees. Go when you want a safe, scenic loop with water on all sides for a stroller or small bikes.
- Best when: a scenic, low-traffic island loop
- Area: Brickell Key
- Specific: 44 acres of green space; only continuous island Baywalk in Miami; 5,000+ trees
Brickell City Centre is the indoor break, three levels of shopping and dining anchored by a large Saks Fifth Avenue. Go when heat or rain calls for an air-conditioned stop with food options on hand.
- Best when: an air-conditioned heat- or rain-day break
- Area: Brickell
- Specific: three levels of shopping, dining, and entertainment; anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue