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Oakland Park

Oakland Park, officially the City of Oakland Park, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States.

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The place

Oakland Park, officially the City of Oakland Park, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 44,229. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6,166,488 people at the 2020 census. City Hall is now located at the Sky Building at 1100 Park Lane East, Oakland Park, FL 33334

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oakland Park

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Chase Stadium

    Inter Miami CF Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Built on the site of the former Lockhart Stadium, the 21,550-seat stadium is the home pitch of MLS Next Pro side Inter Miami CF II. The stadium opened in 2020 as an interim venue for Inter Miami CF until the completion of Nu Stadium in 2026.

    2.7 km · soccer stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    International Swimming Hall of Fame

    The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, operated by private interests and serving as the central point for the study of the history of swimming in the United States and world. ISHOF exhibits include ancient art and both reproductions and original art depicting famous moments in swimming history from ancient times to modern, swimwear, civil rights, memorabilia, and artifacts belonging to persons who have promoted or excelled in aquatics.

    7.5 km · hall of fame for swimmers, divers and water polo players in Fort Lauderdale, Florida · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Melrose Park

    Melrose Park is a former census-designated place in Broward County, Florida, United States. The population was 7,114 at the 2000 census.

    8.7 km · neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

    The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, the museum is now located in an 83,000-square-foot modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes.

    6.3 km · art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Central Broward Regional Park

    Central Broward Park & Broward County Stadium, formerly Central Broward Regional Park and Central Broward Stadium, is a large county park in Lauderhill, Florida. It opened on November 9, 2007, at a construction cost of $70 million.

    7 km · Sports stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hugh Taylor Birch State Park

    Hugh Taylor Birch State Park is a Florida State Park located in Fort Lauderdale, on East Sunrise Boulevard, between the Intracoastal Waterway and SR A1A.

    5.1 km · Florida state park · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Las Olas River House

    Las Olas River House is a 42-story residential skyscraper located in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It stood as the tallest building in Ft.

    6.5 km · apartment building in Fort Lauderdale, Florida · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Westview Community Cemetery

    Westview Community Cemetery is a historic black American cemetery in Pompano Beach, Florida. It was created in 1952 during segregation when black Americans could not be buried together with whites in Florida.

    9.3 km · cemetery in Pompano Beach, FL · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Fort Lauderdale Stadium

    Fort Lauderdale Stadium was a baseball stadium located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, next to Lockhart Stadium which was built for soccer and outdoors events. The stadium was demolished in June 2019 as part of the construction of Inter Miami CF Stadium for Inter Miami CF. The New York Yankees announced in March 1961 they would move their spring training location from St.

    2.9 km · stadium in Fort Lauderdale, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Stonewall National Museum Archives & Library

    Stonewall National Museum Archives & Library is the first national LGBTQ+ Museum in the United States. SNMAL is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501 organization in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that promotes understanding through preserving, interpreting and sharing the culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their role in society.

    4.6 km · Museum and Library · Wikipedia

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Getting to Oakland Park

Airports
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood (FLL), 12 km · Miami (MIA), 45 km · President Donald J. Trump (DJT), 57 km
Stations
Fort Lauderdale station, 6.9 km · Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, 3.7 km · Pompano Beach Airpark, 8.4 km · Cypress Creek, 2.5 km
  • Miami → Oakland Park
    45 km · quickest by road, 46 min · $4–6
  • West Palm Beach → Oakland Park
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h · $5–7
  • Fort Myers → Oakland Park
    177 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · $18–25
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oakland Park

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Oakland Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are also some limited charter flights to and from Europe.
  • Get inCharter companies such as Fort Lauderdale Air Charter, Monarch Air Group and Skymax offer access to a variety of planes for flights to and from this airport.
  • Get inAdditionally, Baleària Caribbean runs a regular ferry from Freeport, in the Bahamas.
  • Get aroundFort Lauderdale is America's yachting capital, and as such has numerous boat charter and rental companies.
  • Get aroundWater Taxi also offers a free "Water Trolley" shuttle service (funded by the city) with stops between the Stranahan House and Esplanade Park (the span of Fort Lauderdale's "Riverwalk" along the New River).

From Wikivoyage: Fort Lauderdale, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Oakland Park

Oakland Park is 45 km from Miami, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.