Dania Cove Park — Attraction in Dania Beach

Parking and the main entrance for Dania Cove Park is located on SW 25th Terrace. There is a second entrance to the park on SW 45th Street but there is no parking. If you interested in checking out the park, it is pretty close to the Florida landmark restaurant, Tropical Acres.

This is a large park located on the Dania cut-off canal. Once you enter the park, if you walk to the left there is a picnic pavilion, mangrove cove, and a fishing dock and platform. From the fishing dock you can observe a number of birds that have made this wetlands their home. There is also a smaller fishing dock in this area as well. Native plants were added to the park to eliminate the need for irrigation and to attract butterflies. While walking around a saw a mango tree dropping its fruit. When creating the park it was designed to preserve the Oak Hammock ecological system found here.

The right side of the park has an archeologically significant midden that dates back to the Tequesta Indians. This site is named the Holbinger archaeological site because for many years the land was used for tomato farming by the Holbinger family. A midden is a kind of garbage dump that was used by the prehistoric Tequesta Indians. You can see the elevation of land that was a result of them discarding materials over many years. An analysis of the animal remains found in the midden revealed it was from between 500 B.C. and 1513 A.D. A midden can tell archaeologists a lot about the people who lived here until Spanish occupation in the 1500's wiped them out.

I really enjoyed my visit to the park. It is great for bird watching and I enjoyed reading all of the signs throughout the park. Dania Beach was the first city in Broward County and there are signs that tell about its history as the tomato capital of the world and its famous antique row, as well as signs about the butterflies and plants in the park and the manatees that can be found in the canal and mangroves. There is so much history and beautiful nature here. Another thing about the park is that seems to be directly at the end of the airport runway for Ft. Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. The planes taking off were so close that I am sure they could see me clearly. It is fun to see but I don't think I would want to live in this...

A great quiet (when the planes are not flying over) little spot hidden at the end of a residential street. There are covered picnic tables to have lunch at, some smaller picnic tables along the paved trail, and a trail that goes around the canal with various little benches to take a contemplative seat at. The best table sits on the deck where you can enjoy the view of the water, mangroves, and planes as they pass by. Very cozy. There are about 5 or 6 parking spots right in front of the...

Very cool little park. We stopped here for a smoke. It has covered picnic tables and it's near the water. The downsides....it is in a neighborhood and also right by the airport. We enjoyed watching the planes but it is loud. They are very low as they're coming into the airport. This park also has lots of iguana running around, which was super...