Downtown Miami Baywalk/Museum Park

Created Feb 23, 2016

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I take this route often, as it is one of Miami’s newest sections of Baywalk and frankly one of the most populated areas. You can start on either end but the section I frequently run is one that is popular with our Tuesday night Baptist Health Brickell Run Club, one of the largest free weekly run clubs in the country. You can start the run over with a loop around Brickell Key. You can stay hydrated at a public water fountain along this stretch over by the large statue on the northeast corner of the island. As you come off the Brickell Key bridge you can hang a right turn and stay along the Baywalk and take it all the way back up to Brickell Avenue over the Brickell Avenue bridge. Here things can get noisy and really truly give you the feel of our tropical urban core. Stay on this path as it borders Biscayne Boulevard and passes Bayfront Park. After you have passed the Bayside Marketplace, you’ll cross over the entrance of Port Miami and head past the AmericanAirlines Arena, home of our World Champion Miami HEAT. After you pass the area you’ll enter Museum Park, home of the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). This is one of Miami’s newest developed parks. You can run under a double row of Royal Palm Trees and get the feel of what a finish line in the tropics feels like. I take this path all the way over to Museum Park and for fun, I like to climb the steps to the museum and make that my turnaround Rocky movie moment. The view from the PAMM gives you a great perspective of the Government Cut basin and Port Miami. There are some bathrooms and water fountains at the park and at the museum, so take a sip and head back the same way you came. To add some variety to the run, you can wind around some of the paths inside Bayfront Park to get some better views of Biscayne Bay and maybe even spot one of our local Dolphins swimming by.

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