Disc Golf Amelia Earhart Park - Hialeah, Florida
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Amelia Earhart Park was a part of the Miami Municipal Airport at Masters Field, what became Opa-locka Airport, and opened to traffic in 1926. A portion of the land was renamed in honor of Amelia Earhart and dedicated as Amelia Earhart Field in October 1947.[1] The General Services Administration closed the naval air station, and later the marine air station, in 1959 as part of cutbacks to military surplus.[2] Most of the former air station was donated to Dade County for use as a general aviation airport in the mid 1960s and it became Opa-locka Airport. Development of the Amelia Earhart Park was completed in 1980.
Facilities
The park offers 8-mile (13 km) of bike trails. They include single track and fire road trails with a number of climbs, downhills, and banked corners. The Bill Graham Farm Village is a farm replica featuring a demonstration shed where visitors can watch horseshoeing, cow-milking, livestock judging and sheep shearing, as well as a petting zoo, exhibit hall, sugar cane press and pony ring. Near the barn is a country store and an adjoining insect museum.
There is fenced, 5-acre (20,000 m2) dog park, an 18-hole disc golf course, and other amenities which include paved walkways, benches, shade trees, waste dispenser stations.
Amelia Earhart Park was a part of the Miami Municipal Airport at Masters Field, what became Opa-locka Airport, and opened to traffic in 1926. A portion of the land was renamed in honor of Amelia Earhart and dedicated as Amelia Earhart Field in October 1947.[1] The General Services Administration closed the naval air station, and later the marine air station, in 1959 as part of cutbacks to military surplus.[2] Most of the former air station was donated to Dade County for use as a general aviation airport in the mid 1960s and it became Opa-locka Airport. Development of the Amelia Earhart Park was completed in 1980.
Facilities
The park offers 8-mile (13 km) of bike trails. They include single track and fire road trails with a number of climbs, downhills, and banked corners. The Bill Graham Farm Village is a farm replica featuring a demonstration shed where visitors can watch horseshoeing, cow-milking, livestock judging and sheep shearing, as well as a petting zoo, exhibit hall, sugar cane press and pony ring. Near the barn is a country store and an adjoining insect museum.
There is fenced, 5-acre (20,000 m2) dog park, an 18-hole disc golf course, and other amenities which include paved walkways, benches, shade trees, waste dispenser stations.
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