Miami travel guides & articles
All 19 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Miami — newest first.
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What $20 Buys at Miami's Vizcaya Museum in November
Restoration has cut the door price to $20 and closed a third of the estate. This is what is still open at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in November 2026, and how to plan around the gaps.
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How to Walk Miami's Calle Ocho in a Small Group
Five blocks, a domino park you watch rather than join, and a cigar factory that shuts at three. How to walk Miami's Little Havana without wasting the morning.
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South Beach Deco in October, Before Miami Fills Up
Miami's Deco strip is at its most workable in October: warm sea, thin morning crowds, the free concert and museum calendar restarting, and stone crab season opening mid-month.
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What to pay for at Bayside Marketplace in Miami
Walking into Miami's bayfront mall is free, so the only thing you have to decide is which wheel ticket or boat ride is worth paying for.
Miami's best on-the-water experiences: from private yacht cruises to speedboat tours
A measured, no-fluff guide to the boats, jet skis and waterfront tables that actually earn a Miami afternoon — with the group logistics, door realities and 2026 prices baked in.
Into the Sawgrass: Miami's Wild Everglades Escape
An honest, operator-by-operator guide to seeing the real Everglades from Miami in 2026 — airboats, national-park tours, kayaks and gators — and knowing which trip actually suits your group.
How Miami's Charter Captains Decide to Leave the Dock
Before dawn on Biscayne Bay, a dozen skippers read the same three screens and reach different answers. Here is what they are looking at, and how to book around it.
Paddling Miami's Last Dark Mangrove Forest After Sunset
Inside Oleta River State Park after dark, and the handful of Miami operators worth booking around it, from full-moon flotillas to skyline light shows.
Chasing Spiny Lobster Through Miami's Two-Day Mini-Season
No other big American city reshuffles its dive-shop phone lines and restaurant boards overnight for a fishing season. Here is how to get in the water, and where to eat the catch when you don't.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2026: Tickets, Free Public Art and How to Plan Miami Art Week
An Art Basel ticket is only part of Miami Art Week. The satellite fairs off the beach are worth planning for, and a good deal of the week is free.
A free Miami weekend from the Beachwalk to the last band
Ten free things to do over a Miami weekend: the seven-mile Beachwalk at first light, a no-cover jazz room on Ocean Drive after dark.
Miami After 2 A.M.: Where the City Actually Eats
When the clubs let out, Miami's real kitchen shift begins — a network of ventanitas, food trucks, and one 24-hour nightclub-diner that never stops feeding the night.
How Miami Spends a Saturday Anchored on Biscayne Bay
Where boats tie up on Biscayne Bay, what the ramps and anchorages cost, and the cove to run for when wind kills the sandbar.
The Ventanita Hour: How Miami Runs on Cafecito
A warm, window-by-window guide to Miami's Cuban coffee ritual — where to stand, what to order, what it costs, and which counters suit a solo sip versus a whole loud table.
Miami's Century-Old Trees and Where They Still Stand
A few hundred acres of the forest that stood here before the street grid are still alive across Miami, and most of it opens to visitors for eight dollars or nothing.
Coral Gables: The Mediterranean Fantasy Miami Actually Built
A hundred years after George Merrick flooded a coral quarry into a public pool, Coral Gables is still the one place in the United States where you can walk an entire invented Mediterranean city on foot.
The Mango Trade: How Miami's Backyard Harvest Feeds a City
When Miami's backyard mango trees ripen each June, the fruit becomes currency—for festival tickets, milkshakes, loaves of bread, and a handful of the city's best restaurant menus.
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What Miami's Fisher Island Looks Like From the Water
No road reaches ZIP 33109, so the view comes from a pier rail or a boat deck, unless you book the one hotel that can clear you onto the ferry.
From Freestyle to Reggaeton: Miami's Bass Never Stopped
Miami's Latin nightlife didn't start with reggaeton — it's been building since the 1980s, and this is the room-by-room map of where the sound actually lives in 2026.