Zoo Miami

  The zoo is very handicapped accessible. Most of the animals are easily viewed and the informative signs are close enough to the paved paths to be read without a problem. There are a few ramped walkways which are necessary to view some of the exhibits

  The parking lot is large enough for any size of RV parked across the spaces.

  Inside the park there are several options besides rolling on the walkways. There’s a tram tour that has a ramp into one of the cars but no room to turn around in the car so wheelchair passengers ride sideways. There’s also a monorail with handicapped accessible cars. The ramps to the stops are long but ADA compliant. Wheelchairs and scooters are available. There’s an additional charge for any of these options.
    
    
  We really enjoyed the tropical bird exhibit. Zoo Miami
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Larry and Penny Thompson Park Campground

 The handicapped campsite looks like it was an after thought. An additional strip of asphalt has been added to make the parking area wider. It’s not very level. The utility area has been partially concreted and the table has long overhangs. There’s no direct route to the bathrooms. You must go down the road to get to a paved path leading to them.

  This campground is very popular with snowbirds. We only stayed one night and were in a site where a reservation had been canceled. It was a little too crowed for us. Larry and Penny Thompson Park
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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

    
  The parking lot for the gardens isn’t large enough for RVs but since the gardens are surrounded by Matheson Hummock Park that isn’t a problem. After you turn into the park driveway make an immediate left into the large Matheson lot. There’s room for the largest RV and it’s a short roll to the garden’s entrance building.
               
The gardens are very wheelchair accessible.The are a few wheelchairs for loan-no charge. The main paths are all paved and smooth. Most of the informational signs are close enough to the paths to be read easily. There’s one short hill through the tropical forest section.The tour trams are supposed to be capable of accommodating two chairs per tram but we didn’t try them.
                 
  The goal of the gardens is to save tropical plant diversity and they have gathered many rare and unusual plants. In addition there are works of art scattered throughout the gardens. Fairchild Gardens
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Miami Beach Boardwalk and Promenade

     
    This boardwalk isn’t a tradition one with the ocean on one side and saltwater taffy shops on the other. It does have a beautiful ocean and beach view but the other side is lined with luxury resorts. The boardwalk extends from 21st to 46th Street. At 21st it connects to a wide concrete promenade which continues to 5th Street. The connection is made with a long ramp with one flat spot. Both the boardwalk and the walkway are fairly smooth. Round trip is about 7 miles.

  We couldn’t find any parking, on street or in the lots, until we got into the upper 20s and 30s. We parked a couple of blocks west on Indian Creek Dr. The on-street parking lane is extra wide and it wasn’t hard finding two parking spaces together where our motorhome fit nicely. Fees are $1.00 per meter per hour. There aren’t many ramps up to the boardwalk. We used one on 36th St. The promenade section has a ramp for most streets.
      
We wanted to see some of the Art Deco district so we walked (and rolled) part of the way back  along Ocean Dr on the eastern sidewalk. The other side of Ocean Dr. is lined with shops and restaurants with sidewalk tables which would making rolling through difficult.
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Historical Museum of Southern Florida

      
   It’s a bit of a journey to get to the museum. Visit on the weekend and parking is free in the surface lot on the west corner of SW 2nd Ave. and W. Flagler St. The lot is large enough for RVs parked sideway across the spaces.

   There are two streets to cross to get to the museum –good curb cuts. Go past the entrance with the long flight of steps and continue down the sidewalk to the ramp. This is an ADA ramp with a good sloop, level landings and a low railing but it’s very long. It opens up to a plaza with the history museum, library and art museum.

  We visited the history museum only. The first floor has changing exhibits. After viewing those, open the glass door and an elevator is on the right. The elevator will put you in the middle of the exhibit so follow the ramps up and down until you come to the beginning. Everything is fairly accessible. There are a few cases that are a little too high and four exhibits with steps - a porch of a frame house, old street car, archaeology dig and fort mockup but you don’t have to use the steps to view most of these exhibits. Museum

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Fruit & Spice Park

 
    Access to this park starts good but we soon discovered a major fault. The parking is good, handicapped spaces for cars and vans, enough room to fit a RV, ADA ramp into the entrance building, wide smooth paved paths throughout the gardens but the best part of the gardens is the guided tram tour and that is really bad.

The last car is the wheelchair car. It looks like it doesn’t get used much. The metal ramp up to it is dangerously steep. The tie downs were not used. Our guide was spending so much time walking from the lead car back to us to explain things that we quickly asked if it was okay with him and the other passengers to have a walking tour. There were only eight of us and everyone was agreeable so we exited the tram –much better!
         
    This isn’t standard procedure so I don’t know if it’s ordinarily possible to have a walking tour. We did some overland, through the grass stuff , so I needed a good bit of help.

The reason for taking the guided tour is that this is a educational county park and the tour guide explains how all the different fruits and nuts are used and gives samples of the ripe ones to everyone to taste. It sounds a little strange but our entire group found it interesting and fun.  Fruit and Spice Park
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Coral Castle

  We’ll stop at almost any quirky roadside attraction. Most aren’t very accessible but this one is okay. Working over twenty years, Edward Leeskalnin carved and assembled huge coral rocks to make a tribute garden, dedicated to a girl in his native county of Latvia who had declined to marry him.

The parking lot isn’t large so if you have a big RV, you’ll probably have to park in front of the building in the pull through section of the lot. Easy access to the ticket window, then open the gate by the turnstile to enter. The pathway to the castle is concrete but once inside, the ground cover is crushed red rock. It’s a little hard to roll through where it’s deep but most of it has been packed down.

  Ed lived above the coral block tool shed in a small room with few conveniences. It's at the top of a flight of steps - no wheelchair access or photographs. Exit through a small gift shop which also includes a display case of artifacts and some old photographs-not too crowded with room to maneuver.     Coral Castle
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Everglades National Park

All of the short interpretive trails along the park road are very handicapped accessible – boardwalk or asphalt. The boardwalks are a little warped so the ride is bumpy. Parking lots and roadways have a heavy , uneven chip seal and are very bumpy to roll along.
     
We stayed at both campgrounds. The two handicapped sites at Long Pine Key are basically in name only,
 no differences between them and a regular site. They do have tables with an overhang. They’re across from a bathroom but the pavement at the sites is small and there is no paved path to the bathrooms, just grass. We stayed in a regular site. Rolling around on the grass is not too hard as long as the site is fairly level.
    
The two handicapped sites in Flamingo campground are located in the tent and van loop so large RVs will not fit in the sites. These sites are better than the ones at Long Pine Key – large paved area, paved paths to the bathrooms and table with an overhang. There are more bugs though.  Everglades
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Google Maps

 
     I started making maps keep track of all of the places where we could use our passes to get free or discounted admissions. All of the placemarks and pushpins have clickable links to the attraction web page. I've tried to get each location as accurate as possible and right on the parking lot if there is one.

    Besides the attractions associated with the passes , I'm also including public campgrounds that are convenient to the attractions. Also national parks with and without campgrounds. I'm adding some misc. attractions that aren't associated with passes ,simply because they look like places that we might be interested in seeing.

  You can download the maps and personalize them to suit your interests and travel route. Sign up for a Google account. Click on the three dots next to the magnifying glass in the upper left and choose copy map. Once the map is in your maps you can edit, add comments to the attractions, and add your own placemarks.

More added as I make them.     FREE CAMPING/OVERNIGHTING
                                                      ROUTE 66
                                                      FESTIVALS

                                                    ALABAMA
                                                     ALASKA
                                                     ARIZONA
                                                     ARKANSAS
                                                     NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
                                                     SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
                                                     COLORADO
                                                     CONNECTICUT
                                                     DELAWARE
                                                     DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
                                                     NORTHERN FLORIDA
                                                     SOUTHERN FLORIDA
                                                     GEORGIA
                                                     IDAHO
                                                     ILLINOIS
                                                     INDIANA
                                                     IOWA
                                                     KANSAS
                                                     KENTUCKY
                                                     LOUISIANA
                                                     MAINE
                                                     MARYLAND
                                                     MASSACHUSETTS 
                                                     MICHIGAN
                                                     MINNESOTA
                                                     MISSISSIPPI
                                                     MISSOURI
                                                     MONTANA
                                                     NEBRASKA
                                                     NEW HAMPSHIRE
                                                     NEW JERSEY
                                                     NEW MEXICO
                                                     NEW YORK
                                                     NEVADA
                                                     NORTH CAROLINA
                                                     NORTH DAKOTA
                                                     OHIO
                                                     OKLAHOMA
                                                     OREGON
                                                     PENNSYLVANIA
                                                     RHODE ISLAND
                                                     SOUTH CAROLINA
                                                     SOUTH DAKOTA
                                                     TENNESSEE
                                                     EAST TEXAS
                                                     WEST TEXAS
                                                     UTAH
                                                     VIRGINIA
                                                     VERMONT
                                                     WASHINGTON
                                                     WEST VIRGINIA
                                                     WISCONSIN
                                                     WYOMING
 
                                                      ALBERTA
                                                      BRITISH COLUMBIA
                                                      MANITOBA
                                                      NEWFOUNDLAND
                                                      NOVA SCOTIA
                                                      SASKATCHEWAN
                                                      YUKON

Miccosukee Casino

This is a very popular spot for RVs stopping for the night. There are signs directing RVs to a back lot which is roomy and level. It’s a pretty far roll to the front entrance of the casino. The door has a push button automatic opener. The casino itself isn’t very big. It’s also crowded and smoky. The slot machines are types that we’ve never seen before. We probably will stay in this casino lot again but we didn’t like playing the slots. Miccosukee Casino
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