Homestead Bayfront Park

• Entrance fee: Weekends $7
• Car: $5 weekdays; $7 weekends and holidays
• Boat ramp launch trailer: $17 weekdays; $24 weekends (Friday through Sunday) and holidays
• Bus/RV: $15 each day

Herbert Hoover Marina is located in Homestead Bayfront Park next to the beautiful coral reefs of Biscayne National Park and the Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary. It is in a beautiful tropical setting with a delicious restaurant called La Playa Grill Seafood Bar and a natural atoll pool and beach.

Office hours are seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Boat ramps are open seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Boat ramp launch trailer: $17 weekdays; $24 weekends (Friday through Sunday) and holidays

Approach from sea: Located at Convoy Point, next to the Biscayne National Park Headquarters (south side). On Biscayne Bay, approximately one mile north of the F.P.L. Channel, and approximately six miles southwest of ICW Channel Markers "5" and "6," or the area better known as the Featherbeds.

Position: 25° 27.8' N., 80° 19.2' W

Approach depth: 3.5 to 5 feet

Dockside depth: 5 to 6 feet.

• Accommodates vessels up to 50 feet long
• Bait and tackle shop
• Boat-launching ramps
• Boat wash-down facilities
• Electric maximum: 50 Amps
• Freshwater hookups
• Gas and diesel fuel
• Marine Store: basic items
• Outdoor showers
• Pumpout
• Restrooms
• Trailer dry storage
• Transients welcome
• Vessel assistance service available
• Wetslips

Fall public swim hours

• Monday and Tuesday: Closed
• Wednesday through Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday: Noon to 6 p.m.

No flotation devices are allowed on our beaches. We want everyone to enjoy our waters. Following this park rule helps to keep everyone safe. It also helps us to be good stewards of the environment as well as protect our natural areas. Chapter 26 of the Code of Miami-Dade, Rule 16 states: ''No person, minor or adult, shall enter or be in water at any bathing area wearing, carrying, pushing or towing any flotation device.''

Dade County Commission Land Purchases dated back to the beginning of the century. Because of the Commission road building policy of purchasing land to open and operate their own rock pits for providing road building material, the County was very fortunate to have this back log of areas suitable for development when the Roadside Beautification and Park programs began.

Many sites were well located for roadside improvement and park purposes. It was largely because of the immediate availability of these areas, through the simple process of transferring control and responsibility from the Road and Bridge Department to the Park Department by resolution of the Board of County Commissioners, that the Park Department was able to take advantage of development funds available in the early Make-Work relief programs.

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