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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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## Every way there

- Miami → Oakland Park 45 km · quickest by road, 46 min · $4–6 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/miami-to-oakland-park) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Miami&to=Oakland+Park)
- West Palm Beach → Oakland Park 61 km · quickest by road, 1h · $5–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/west-palm-beach-to-oakland-park) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=West+Palm+Beach&to=Oakland+Park)
- Fort Myers → Oakland Park 177 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · $18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/fort-myers-to-oakland-park) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Fort+Myers&to=Oakland+Park)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Oakland Park, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Oakland Park has

- Y Scheduled flights Fort Lauderdale (FLL), 12 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Water Taxi Stop - Shooter’s Waterfront, 4 km, Water Taxi; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

26.176°, -80.142°

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

How locals move

## Getting around Oakland Park the local way

- Get in There are also some limited charter flights to and from Europe.
- Get in Charter 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 in Additionally, Baleària Caribbean runs a regular ferry from Freeport, in the Bahamas.
- Get around Fort Lauderdale is America's yachting capital, and as such has numerous boat charter and rental companies.
- Get around Water 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Park%2C_Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Steven Miller (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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