Coconut Grove City Overview

Coconut Grove is a neighborhood of Miami-Dade County, with its main boundaries marked by SW 25 Street and the Rickenbacker Causeway on the north, US1 on the northwest, Biscayne Bay on the east, SW 42 Avenue (LeJeune Road) on the west, and Sunset Drive on the south.

The annual major events include the world-renowned Coconut Grove Arts Festival, with artists, sculptors, jewelers, and craft exhibits from all over the country; the King Mango Strut parade, a fun and light hearted parade filled with satirical interpretations of local public figures; and the Goombay Festival, celebrating Bahamian history and culture with a Junkanoo parade of music and dancing and booths displaying arts and crafts and native Bahamian food.

There are many places of interest in Coconut Grove:

• The Viscaya Museum and Gardens is a National Historic Landmark, showcasing the Coconut Grove area of the 1920s. This beautifully preserved 180-acre estate, built in 1916, was the winter home of James Deering, an agricultural industrialist, featuring a Main House, ten acres of formal gardens, and a rockland hammock (native forest). With architecture inspired by lavish mansions in Europe, the expansive gardens combine elements of Renaissance Italian and French designs. Viscaya has hosted some of the world’s most renowned dignitaries such as Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, President Ronald Reagan, and King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain.
• The Barnacle is a 5-acre historic park, located in the heart of Coconut Grove on Main Highway, stretching down to the shore of Biscayne Bay. It is the oldest home in the Miami-Dade county area that is still in its original location. Built in 1891 by Ralph Middleton Munroe, a businessman with a passion for designing yachts, the house displays many artifacts and offers a glimpse of Old Florida during the era of the Bay. He was a seaman, civic activist, naturalist, photographer, as well as founder and Commodore of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club.
• The Kampong is an 11-acre tropical garden and one of the five gardens of the non-profit National Tropical Botanical Garden. In 1916, the Kampong was the winter home of the famed horticulturalist Dr. David Fairchild and his wife Marian. Fairchild introduced about 30,000 different plant species into the U.S., many obtained during his worldwide travels. Today, the Kampong’s living collection includes tropical fruits such as the pomelo, 23 cultivars of avocado, 65 varieties of mango, palms, flowering trees, ficus, aroids, and bamboo.
• The Miami Science Museum is home to many world-class exhibits. It features the Miami Planetarium, famous as once being the home of Jack Horkheimer's Star Gazer television show.

Shopping is abundant in Coconut Grove with many boutiques, specialty stores, pubs, nightclubs, and numerous eateries along Commodore Plaza, on Main Highway, and leading up to the large CocoWalk center of over thirty stores and services, art galleries, a movie theater, and dining places including Johnny Rockets and The Cheesecake Factory. By night, Coconut Grove has a vibrant nightlife of both locals and tourists.

Within minutes of CocoWalk is another large complex, Shoppes at Mayfair in the Grove, with a classy, unique collection of boutiques, galleries, dining, entertainment, and an antique market show every third weekend of the month. As you stroll through the Art Nouveau buildings, you will find undulating masonry, a fountain promenade, a 5-story sundial and colorful sculptures.

The Dinner Key Marina is Florida’s largest marine facility located on Pan American Drive in Coconut Grove. The 582-slip marina provides comfortable berthing accommodations in a park-like setting to transient, seasonal, long-term, and live-aboard customers.

The Grove Harbour Marina, a full-service facility run by marine experts, is proud to offer concierge service that will take care of all your boating needs. It boasts 90 boat slips for vessels up to 110 feet, and 260 dry stack storage spaces for vessels up to 46 feet. With easy accessibility to great fishing, sailing and cruising, Grove Harbour, located in the Dinner Key Basin with direct access to Biscayne Bay, is truly a boater's paradise, and the place to experience world-class marina amenities.

Often dubbed as a “Village with a rhythm all its own”, Coconut Grove has some of the most expensive and luxurious estates, mansions, and condominiums, in Miami-Dade County, landscaped in very lush vegetation, with many of the streets lined with oak, banyan, jacaranda, royal Poinciana, and many other Florida native flowering trees.

Coconut Grove has seen many famous residents, past and present, including Jimmy Buffet, Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, David Crosby, Alexander Graham Bell, Sylvester Stallone, and Madonna, and has been featured in many movies such as Bad Boys, Hoot, Big Trouble, the First 48, Stick, Meet the Fockers, Marley & Me, and TV series Burn Notice and CSI:Miami episodes.

Coconut Grove is also host to some of Miami's best private schools, including Ransom Everglades, Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, and La Salle High School.

The residents of Coconut Grove are served by Mercy Hospital, located on South Miami Avenue, which is the only Catholic hospital in Miami-Dade County. Established in 1950, this 473-bed facility, staffed by over 700 physicians representing 27 medical specialties, has received many awards for excellence, including One of America’s Best Hospitals for Respiratory Disorders by U.S. News & World Report.

One of the largest parks in Coconut Grove is Kennedy Park, located on South Bayshore Drive and SW 22 Avenue. This 29-acre park features a hiking and biking trail, exercise stations, volleyball courts, playground, a disc golf course, a dog park, picnic tables, and lots of shade trees. With the beautiful, relaxing views of the bayfront, singer Enrique Iglesias says that Kennedy Park is his favorite in his hometown.

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