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Best Day Trips from Miami, Orlando, and Tampa — Pick Your Adventure
Your flight lands at noon. By 2 p.m. you could be snorkeling a reef, paddling with manatees, or watching alligators slide off a boardwalk. Fifteen Florida day trips within two hours of MIA, MCO, and TPA — what to drive to, what to skip.
Bill Baggs Cape Florida — Miami's Best Snorkel Beach Is the One Locals Use
Fifteen minutes from downtown Miami, at the tip of Key Biscayne, there's a state park with a 200-year-old lighthouse, a mile of shaded beach, and a limestone rip-rap that's the most underrated shore-snorkel spot in South Florida. Tourists drive past it to get to South Beach. Don't be them.
Biscayne Reef Shelf — The Best Diving Within an Hour of Downtown Miami
Forget the Keys for a minute. The reef shelf off Biscayne Bay holds 30-50ft visibility three weeks of every month, parking is free, and you can be back at your desk by 2 PM.
Oleta River — How to SUP Through Mangrove Tunnels in the Middle of Miami
Oleta River State Park is fifteen minutes from downtown Miami. It has 1,000 acres of mangrove tunnels, an outfitter that rents SUP and kayak by the hour, and visibility most weekday mornings of nobody-but-you. The full paddle is two hours.
Stiltsville — Biscayne Bay's Seven Wooden Houses on Stilts
A mile off Cape Florida, seven wooden houses stand on pilings over three feet of turquoise water. They are the last of thirty. They survived Hurricane Andrew. You cannot legally walk inside without a permit — but you can boat there, kayak there, and photograph them at golden hour.