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Oakland Park, FL
An inland Broward city just north of Fort Lauderdale with a growing downtown, a culinary arts district and Jaco Pastorius Park.
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Oakland Park is a city of about 44,000 just north of Fort Lauderdale and a few minutes inland from the beach. First incorporated in 1925 as Floranada, a blend of Florida and Canada, it reorganized as Oakland Park in 1929. Locals come for its downtown Culinary Arts District, a cluster of breweries and independent kitchens, and for city events at Jaco Pastorius Park, named for the jazz bassist who grew up here.
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Downtown Oakland Park runs along Dixie Highway and the Florida East Coast Railway, where the city has encouraged a mixed-use, walkable district with craft breweries, a wine bar and restaurants from Brazil, Haiti, Ethiopia and beyond. Jaco Pastorius Park hosts most holiday celebrations and community events, with a lit fountain at its entrance, and two large murals of Pastorius went up downtown in 2010. Dillon Tennis Center offers tennis and pickleball. Oakland Park Elementary, a 1925 school building, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The city sits on the North Fork of the Middle River.
Getting to Oakland Park
Oakland Park sits in the heart of Greater Fort Lauderdale, with Wilton Manors to the south and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and the Atlantic just to the east. I-95, US 1 (Federal Highway), Dixie Highway and Oakland Park Boulevard are the main routes, and Oakland Park Boulevard runs straight east to the beach in about 10 minutes. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades are about 15 to 20 minutes south. Parking downtown is generally easier than in Fort Lauderdale, which makes it a good evening alternative.
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