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Worth seeing in and around University Park

7 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
    Florida International University

    Florida International University is a public research university with its main campus in Westchester, Florida, United States. Founded in 1965 by the Florida Legislature, the school opened to students in 1972.

    900 m · public research university in Westchester, Florida, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pitbull Stadium

    Pitbull Stadium is a college football and soccer stadium on the campus of Florida International University in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida with a Miami mailing address. It is the home stadium of the FIU Panthers football team and the Miami FC soccer team from the USL Championship.

    1.2 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse

    On March 15, 2018, a 175-foot-long section of the FIU-Sweetwater UniversityCity Pedestrian Bridge collapsed while under construction. The collapse resulted in six deaths, ten injuries, and eight vehicles being crushed.

    1.7 km · bridge collapse in Sweetwater, Florida · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Frost Art Museum

    The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum is an art museum located in the Modesto A. Maidique campus of Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1977 as 'The Art Museum at Florida International University', it was renamed after Phillip Frost and Patricia Frost in 2003.

    1 km · museum in Miami, Florida · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tamiami Park

    Tamiami Park is a public urban park in metropolitan Miami, just south of the Modesto Maidique campus of Florida International University.

    1.4 km · public park in Miami, Florida, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

    The Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine is the medical school of Florida International University, located in Modesto A. Maidique Campus in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida. The College of Medicine is one of the university's 26 schools and colleges.

    1.4 km · medical school of Florida International University · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ocean Bank Convocation Center

    Ocean Bank Convocation Center is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena at Florida International University in University Park, Florida. It was opened on February 1, 1986, and is home to the FIU Panthers basketball and volleyball teams.

    1.7 km · arena belonging to Florida International University in Westchester · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to University Park

Airports
Miami (MIA), 10 km · Fort Lauderdale Hollywood (FLL), 42 km · President Donald J. Trump (DJT), 108 km
  • Fort Lauderdale → University Park
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · $5–7
  • West Palm Beach → University Park
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $10–14
  • Fort Myers → University Park
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · $19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for University 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 University Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAir taxi and jet charter companies including as Jetset Charter and Miami Beach Jet Charter fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from luxury Gulfstreams down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.

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

The nearest places where the work is done
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    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,139 km
  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    1,190 km
  3. 03
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,389 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,678 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,755 km

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Around it

Next door to University Park

University Park is 18 km from Miami, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.