FLORIDA PLACES AND DESTINATIONS:
DEERFIELD BEACH

Deerfield Beach, Florida

Deerfield Beach in Broward County is named for the numerous deer that once roamed the area. Now, with its cove-like beaches, it is famed for its Blue Wave beaches.

Deerfield Beach Fishing Pier is a hot spot for avid fishermen for its catches like King Mackerel and other large species of fish you would normally find in deeper water.

The Deerfield Beach Arboretum is home to more than 200 different species of trees and palms from five continents around the world.

Deerfield Island Park is on an island bordered by the Royal Palm Waterway, Hillsboro Canal and the Intracoastal Waterway, an "urban wilderness area" with an 8.5-acre mangrove swamp filled with wildlife and two nature trails, the Coquina and the Mangrove Trail.




At Quiet Waters Park you can swim, fish, canoe, water-ski, camp, picnic, enjoy a playground, mountain bike, or play in a water playground called Splash Adventure. The annual Cajun/Zydeco Festival spices up Quiet Waters Park in May.

There are jousting knights, court jesters, displays of weapons, games of chance and feasting when history comes to life at Deerfield Beach's Florida Renaissance Festival in February.

Deerfield Beach has four sites on the Nation Register of Historic Places: the 1920 Old School House, the 1923 James D. and Alice Butler House (now the Butler House Museum and the Society offices), the 1926 Deerfield School (now the Deerfield Beach Elementary School) and the 1926 Seaboard Airline Railway Station (now the Tri-Rail Station).









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