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Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Biscayne Bay: marinas, moorings and park docks

Two marinas, two mooring areas and three park harbors: from the Las Olas Bight down the Intracoastal Waterway to the 400 slips at Miami Beach Marina, the city moorings off Coconut Grove, and the island docks of Biscayne National Park.

Last checked 21 Oct 20267 sources · 7 primary
Illustrated map of the coast from Fort Lauderdale south past Miami and Government Cut into Biscayne Bay, with Key Biscayne and the keys of Biscayne National Park. Every marked place links to its page.Fort LauderdalePort EvergladesMiamiKey BiscayneBiscayne National ParkBiscayne BayAtlantic OceanLas Olas Mooring FieldMiami Beach MarinaMiamarina at BaysideDinner Key Mooring FieldNo Name HarborBoca Chita KeyElliott Key
Illustration, not to scale – the pins mark places, not positions. Depths, seamarks and tides for the whole region are in the app.
over 250
city moorings at Dinner Key
$60
a night to dock and camp at Boca Chita or Elliott Key
$20 per boat
a night to anchor in No Name Harbor
400
slips at Miami Beach Marina, for vessels up to 250 feet

Depths come from operators, the Coast Pilot, cruiser reports or a seabed model. This is not a nautical chart and does not tell you whether you will get through – use official charts and Local Notices to Mariners.

Places in this region

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Mooring field
Fort Lauderdale · Intracoastal Waterway
Las Olas Mooring Field
  • Designated public mooring areas in the city: one, at the Las Olas Bight
  • Designated anchorage limitation areas in the city: none
Marina
South Beach · Government Cut
Miami Beach Marina
  • Boat slips: 400
  • Max LOA: 250 ft
Marina
Downtown Miami · Biscayne Bay
Miamarina at Bayside
  • Wet slips: 125page conflicts
  • Max LOA: 230 ftpage conflicts
Mooring field
Coconut Grove · Miami
Dinner Key Mooring Field
  • City moorings: over 250page conflicts
  • Max LOA: 50 ft
State park
Key Biscayne · Biscayne Bay
No Name Harbor
  • Anchoring overnight: $20 per boat per night
  • Arriving by boat for the day: $8
National park dock
Biscayne National Park
Boca Chita Key
  • Overnight camping and docking: $60 per night
  • Day use docking: $25, Friday – Monday and federal holidays
National park dock
Biscayne National Park
Elliott Key
  • Boat slips in the harbor: 33
  • Overnight camping and docking: $60 per night

Inlets

Bakers Haulover InletA cut dredged through the barrier beach at the north end of Biscayne Bay, 11.6 miles south of Port Everglades, to circulate water in the bay. The A1A bridge over it is a fixed span with a published clearance of 32 feet.Government CutThe dredged entry to the Port of Miami between two unmarked jetties. A federal project carries 52 feet from the sea buoy to inside the cut, and Coast Pilot 4 records that the Biscayne Bay Pilots find cross-channel current variations here particularly difficult to negotiate.Hillsboro InletThirty-one miles south of Lake Worth Inlet, a marked entrance channel under the Hillsboro Inlet Entrance Light. Coast Pilot 4 warns that the jetties are submerged at the entrance channel and that rocky reefs extend north and south of the entrance lights.Port EvergladesTwo unmarked jetties protect an entrance Coast Pilot 4 calls virtually landlocked, 301 miles south of Jacksonville and 20 miles north of the Miami Harbor entrance. The port authority gives the outer entrance channel an existing depth of 45 feet.

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Written by buoya editorial from the sources above. Every figure was checked against its source on 21 Oct 2026. Found something wrong? Report a correction.