Although the manmade atoll pool at Matheson Hammock Park has been around ... make you feel safe while you enjoy the mini beach. Admission to the park is free, but you need to shell out for parking ...

Head to Haulover Park, where you'll encounter 177 acres of parkland bordered to the east by 1.4 miles of beach and, beyond that, 41 million square miles of ocean.

Being a resident of South Miami for the past 65 years — when there was no charge to enter Matheson Hammock Park— I have always questioned the $5 charge that Dade County imposed many years ago ...

While topless sunbathing is common throughout Miami Beach, this is where to go if ... if you bring your own food. The 630-acre Matheson Hammock Park, just south of Coral Gables, opened in 1930 ...