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South Florida Amusement Parks
Family Recreation Center
3100 Airport Rd., Boca Raton
561-347-1888
Boomers is a miniature amusement park complete with game room, center
for children, race track, bumper boats, miniature golf and food center.
RC Racing
Mills Pond Park, 2201 NW Ninth Avenue (Powerline Road), between Oakland
Park and Sunrise boulevards, Fort Lauderdale, 954-828-4565. This city
park features a public remote-control racing track. For information on
RC racing, call Broward County RC Club, 954-525-3304. (RC car racing also
offered at South County Regional Park in Boca Raton, listed below.) Admission:
adults $1, free for children under 12.
For the Disabled -- Colohatchee Park, 1975 NE 15th Avenue, Wilton Manors, 954-390-2130. Amenities at this city park along the south fork of the Middle River include a playground with ADA-accessible equipment, basketball, horseshoes and volleyball. Fees: Must pay to use pavilion, playground and volleyball court if you have a group of 15 or more. Also, Tropical Park, 7900 SW 40 Street, Miami, 305-226-8315, ext. 221, offers 12 lighted wheelchair-accessible tennis courts, as well as racquetball facilities.
Crandon Park
4000 Crandon Blvd., Key Biscayne
305-361-5421
Crandon Park, located on the northern side of Key Biscayne, comes with
a number of recreation areas. The park boasts the Crandon Park Beach,
baseball fields, sand volleyball courts, picnic areas, a nature trail
and free parking.
Disney Wide World of Sports Complex
7000 Victory Way, Kissimmee
407-939-1500
I-4 to exit 25B (Magic Kingdom exit). Take Highway 192 for about a mile
and stay right onto World Drive. Stay on World Drive to Osceola Parkway
and go east. Follow for mile and turn right onto Victory Way; stadium
is on left.
Bicycle racing course -- Brian Piccolo Park, 9501 Sheridan Street, Cooper City, 954-437-2600. Admission: $1 ages 6 and older on weekends and holidays; $5 maximum per car or van (up to nine people); $15 maximum per bus. This county park offers a number of sports facilities, including a 333.3-meter velodrome bicycling track and a 200-meter banked track for in-line skating, as well as three bike and jogging paths. For bike rentals and cycling and in-line skating programs and lessons, call 954-437-2626.
Grand Prix Race-O-Rama
1801 NW 1st St., Dania
954-921-1411
Race fans will be in heaven at the Race-O-Rama. The park includes: Go
cart racing, miniature golf, video arcade(2), bumper cars, bumper boats,
laser tag, and batting cages.
Kabooms Amusement & Party Center
9130 SR 84, Davie
954-452-2800
An indoor roller hockey rink, public roller hockey and in-line skating
daily, adult roller hockey.
Disc Golf -- Kendall Indian Hammocks Park, 11395 SW 79th Street, Kendall, 305-596-9324. This park boasts an 18-hole disc golf course at the eastern end of the park. Players use a Frisbee or other disk and aim for the "hole," which are low posts supporting a 3-foot chain basket. As with regular golf, there are varying yardages from each tee, and the object is to have your disc land in the basket. Players should bring their own regular or competition Frisbee and a pencil to record the score. Admission: free. Another disc golf course (18 holes) is located at Tradewinds Park, 3600 W. Sample Road, Coconut Creek, 954-968-3880. Admission (charged on weekends and holidays only): $1 per person (age 6 and older); $5 maximum per car or van (up to nine people); $15 maximum per bus.
South Florida Fairgrounds
9067 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach
561-793-0333
Mention the word fairgrounds and fun comes to mind. No exception here.
You can watch horse shows, antique shows, auto races, concerts not to
mention games, rides and special events.
Cable water-skiing
Quiet Waters Park, 401 S. Powerline Road, Deerfield Beach, 954-360-1315.
It's water, water everywhere at this county park, which includes a freshwater
swimming beach, cable water-skiing, a variety of boats for rental, and
Splash Adventure, an interactive children's water playground. Admission:
$1 per person on weekends and holidays, $3 for Splash Adventure.
Petanque Court: John Prince Park, 2520 Lake Worth Road west of I-95, Lake Worth, 561-964-4420. Other entrances at 27600 Sixth Avenue South and 4759 South Congress Avenue. This large 726-acre county park features fishing, water skiing and boating, along with its own petanque court, for a round of the European lawn-bowling game, a distant cousin of horseshoes and a close relative of bocce.
Wannado City
Check out a new indoor theme park at the Sawgrass Mills Mall in Broward
County. It is called Wannado City. It is a place where kids can do what
they Wannado. They basically can dabble in adult occupations and such.
They can be police officers complete with badge, hat, jacket, and real
walkie-talkies. They can be firemen, which includes fighting a mock fire.
They can be baby nurses, dentists, surgeons, reporters for the Miami Herald,
and more. They have their own bank accounts and get paid for all the jobs
they do. They have the Wannado currency which is called Wongas. They can
use the wongas to buy things such as groceries where they actually go
grocery shopping in a mini Publix, they can go to the art academy, it's
really just an endless list of things to do. I spent 6 hours there and
still haven't seen everything.
Castaway Island at T-Y Park
Water playgrounds with slides, water cannons, water rides and a rain curtain.
Separate toddler pool area. Food concessions. $5 per person. Children
under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Location: 3300 N. Park Road
Hollywood, FL
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