Biscayne National Park
Florida
Tonight
🌗 46% moon
8 h fully dark
Crowds
low
Open today
Open
Entrance
Free entry
Camping and Docking at Boca Chita and Elliott Keys
Docking at Boca Chita and Elliott Keys: $25.00 Friday - Monday and Federal Holidays Camping at Boca Chita and Elliott Keys: $35.00 per night. Payments must be made on site using the recreation.gov phone app.
Ride Share Services
Convoy Point grounds, Jetty Trail, kayak launch, and picnic area open at 7 a.m. and close at 5:30 p.m. If you are using a ride share service for transportation to and from the park, ensure ride share services can be onsite before closing time.
Boater Awareness
Please use caution in park waters due to navigational markers that may be missing or moved due to unforeseen circumstances.
Within sight of Miami, yet worlds away, Biscayne protects a rare combination of aquamarine waters, emerald islands, and fish-bejeweled coral reefs. Evidence of 10,000 years of human history is here too; from prehistoric tribes to shipwrecks, and pineapple farmers to presidents. For many, the park is a boating, fishing, and diving destination, while others enjoy a warm breeze and peaceful scenery.
Activities
Topics
No entrance fee.
Hours & seasons
Launch your own canoe or kayak from the ramp near the parking area, enjoy a picnic on the lawn, or stroll along the jetty trail.
Generally open:
winterspringsummerfallHours are reported by the park — verify before you go.
📞 786-335-3620
✉ bisc_information@nps.govConditions
Typical crowds: low
Weather now: ☁️ Overcast, 84°F
☁️ 85°/81°
🌦️ 85°/80°
⛈️ 87°/82°
Typical monthly recreation visits · NPS avg 2023–2025 — orange months are the quietest by crowds.
Quietest months
Relative crowds by month — lighter is quieter; ringed months are the calmest by crowds.
Jan
65%
Feb
76%
Mar
93%
Apr
87%
May
92%
Jun
81%
Jul
100%
Aug
74%
Sep
73%
Oct
56%
Nov
55%
Dec
58%
Log a sky reading
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Things to do
Fishing in Biscayne National Park
Birding at Boca Chita
Birding at Elliott Key
Birding at Convoy Point
Become a Biscayne Junior Ranger
Campgrounds
Boca Chita Campground · 60 sites · first-come
Elliott Key Campground · 20 sites
Visitor centers
Dante Fascell Visitor Center
Accessibility
1 accessible campground(s)
7 audio-described place(s)
Reported by the park — verify before you go.
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
By the numbers
A visual read on Biscayne National Park — its character, trails, sky, and weather.
Park fingerprint
How this park scores across the dimensions travelers care about.
Trail difficulty
Difficulty mix across this park's trails.
3-day forecast
Daily high and low temperatures (°F).
Passport stamps
Mark the stamps you've collected — they show in your memory and along your routes.
🎫 Dante Fascell Visitor Center
Places to see
19th Century Wooden Sailing Vessel
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Alicia
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Arratoon Apcar
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Erl King
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Fowey Rocks Lighthouse
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Lugano
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Mandalay
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Learn more
More than 200,000 volunteers provide invaluable time and energy to the National Park Service. Meet the people and groups being honored with a 2013 Hartzog Award.
The National Park Service is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2022 George and Helen Hartzog Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service.
Humor is a form of commentary that often reveals serious truths. Cartoonists combine artistic talents with razor-sharp wits to shine light on political and social issues. In most cases, those artists are external observers. In the National Park Service (NPS), employees in the 1960s to 1980s drew cartoons, published in official newsletters, that provide unique insights into NPS organizational culture, working conditions, and employees' concerns—many of which still exist today.
Two interns discover that, like the parks themselves, national park creel surveys are never the same.
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Across the US, changes in water availability are altering which plants grow where. These changes are evident at a broad scale. But not all areas experience the same climate in the same way, even within the boundaries of a single national park. A new dataset gives park managers a valuable tool for understanding why vegetation has changed and how it might change in the future under different climate-change scenarios.
Fire burns across south Florida in a landscape level prescribed fire operation.
A component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan is rehydration of the coastal wetlands adjacent to Biscayne National Park. Before the planned rehydration of the wetlands begins, park managers need to understand the threats to the park’s resources from existing organic wastewater contaminant (OWC) levels in order to differentiate them from potential impacts from OWCs introduced by the rehydration.
How Biscayne National Park connects
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