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Parks and Recreation Facilities

With an average year round temperature of 75 degrees, our local area offers a vast array of outdoor activities for everyone to enjoy.

The Homestead Sports Complex is one of the most complete training and tournament centers for all levels of baseball in the country. The facility, seats 6,500 and expands to 9,000, and provides parking for over 3,900 vehicles.

Field lighting has been designed to meet network television specifications, and a state-of-the-art, computerized scoreboard is provided. An administrative center, complete with six offices, a conference room, two work rooms and a reception area ensure a professional atmosphere. The Stadium is enhanced by a comprehensive Training Facility that can accommodate all levels of competition from Major League and Minor League practice and play, to Little League games and tournaments. This training center, adjacent to the stadium, is complete with support facilities, and serves the Dade County community year round.

A 200 bed dormitory facility located on the grounds of the Homestead Sports Complex complements the training facilities. The dormitories consist of 30 single rooms and 84 double rooms that are complete with restrooms, showers, dressing areas, a full service kitchen and recreational areas.

The City of Homestead provides its visitors and residents with numerous opportunities to enjoy their “Fun in the Sun” through its multiple municipal parks.

Harris Field
1034 NE 8 ST

Homestead Sports Complex
1601 SE 28 Ave

JD Redd Park
550 N Homestead BlvdMusselwhite Park - Senior Center
1615 N Krome Ave Phichol Williams Community Center
951 SW 4 StRoby George Park
201 SW 11 Ave

Wittkop Park
505 NW 9 ST

The City of Homestead is also located between two national parks: Everglades National Park and Biscayne National Park. To our south is the famous John Pennekamp state park.

Click here for the official websites of:

• Biscayne National Park
• Everglades National Park
• John Pennekamp State Park

Biscayne National Park is the largest marine park in the National Park System, with 95% of its 173,000 acres covered by water. The area was set aside in 1968 to "....preserve and protect for the education, inspiration, recreation and enjoyment of present and future generations a rare combination of terrestrial, marine, and amphibious life in a tropical setting of great natural beauty." (Public Law 90-606)

Boat launches are available at Homestead Bayfront Park and other nearby marinas. No boat launches are available at Convoy Point. The park maintains a 66-slip harbor at Elliott Key, where boaters may spend the day or night. Boaters can also tie up at Boca Chita Key's harbor. Docking is free and on a first-come, first-served basis. Anchorage areas may be found off Elliott and Sands keys.

Everglades National Park is a rare and beautiful place. With its mangrove forests and watery sawgrass plain, it is one of North America's unsung wild places - a beautiful, rugged, subtropical landscape experienced by a relatively few adventurous souls each year. Everglades National Park, shelters an abundant array of wildlife. As many as 25 varieties of orchids are known to occur in the park, in addition to over 1000 other kinds of seed-bearing plants and 120 species of trees. Over 36 threatened or endangered animal species reside in Everglades National Park, such as the American alligator and crocodile, the Florida panther, the West Indian manatee, and the Cape Sable seaside sparrow. Over 300 species of birds have been recorded, seven of which are rare or endangered.

"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them...." - Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Information found on http://www.cityofhomestead.com/portal-recreation/parks-facilities.aspx