Attractions & Tours
Things to Do in Fort Lauderdale
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13 attractions
City & Culture
Fort Lauderdale City & Culture
5 listings
Las Olas Boulevard
The boulevard that connects everything — a mile-plus of sidewalk cafés, galleries, and date-night rooms running from downtown's Riverwalk to the beach, bridging the canal district where the city's gondola-and-yacht life idles past. Free to stroll, dangerous to browse.
Bonnet House Museum & Gardens
The artists' island fantasy — a 1920s plantation-style estate on 35 beachfront acres where painter Frederic Bartlett and his wife Evelyn built a whimsical world of studio murals, courtyard menageries, orchids, and resident monkeys. Tours reveal it room by eccentric room.
Historic Stranahan House Museum
Where Fort Lauderdale began — the 1901 trading post on the New River where Frank Stranahan traded with the Seminole and Ivy taught the frontier's children, restored with its river porch and its founders' triumphant, tragic story intact.
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
The city's serious art anchor — a curving Postmodern landmark on Las Olas holding the hemisphere's deepest William Glackens collection, a famous CoBrA trove, and ambitious rotating shows. The grown-up culture stop downtown deserves.
Museum of Discovery and Science
The kids' day that outsmarts the weather — downtown's hands-on science palace with live otters and gators, a hurricane simulator, flight simulators, Everglades ecology done right, and an IMAX-scale theater bolted on. The region's family rainy-day king.
On the Water
Fort Lauderdale On the Water
3 listings
Fort Lauderdale Water Taxi
The city's floating transit and its best tour in one ticket — all-day hop-on-hop-off boats working the New River and Intracoastal past mega-yachts and mansion rows, with narration that names the owners. The Venice line, ridden properly.
Jungle Queen Riverboat
The 1935 institution — a paddlewheeler churning up the New River past the mansion mile to a private island of BBQ, vaudeville, and gator shows. Gloriously retro, knowingly corny, and somehow still the city's happiest evening.
Carrie B Harbor Cruise
The daytime deep-dive — a replica paddlewheeler running narrated ninety-minute loops through the harbor's working port, the mansion canals, and Port Everglades' cruise-ship row, with the city's sharpest guide patter and no show to sit through.
Beach & Parks
Fort Lauderdale Beach & Parks
2 listings
Fort Lauderdale Beach
Seven miles of the state's most civilized sand — the wave-wall promenade, clear Atlantic water, volleyball and snorkel coves north, café rows across the boulevard, and a beach culture that grew up without losing the tan. Free, all of it.
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park
The green mile the condos couldn't buy — a lawyer's beloved barrier-island estate deeded to Florida to spite developers, now 180 acres of hammock trails, a paddleable lagoon, gopher tortoises, and a tunnel under A1A straight to the sand.
Gardens & Wildlife
Fort Lauderdale Gardens & Wildlife
2 listings
Flamingo Gardens
Sixty acres of old Florida west of town — a 1927 botanical estate grown into a wildlife sanctuary of non-releasable natives: flamingos underfoot, panthers, bobcats, bears, and a walk-through aviary under some of the state's champion trees.
Butterfly World
The first and still the largest butterfly park on earth — Coconut Creek's aviaries hold thousands of free-flying butterflies in tropical bloom, plus hummingbirds, lorikeets that land on you, and the research legacy that repopulated whole species.
Everglades
Fort Lauderdale Everglades
1 listing
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