Updated May 5, 2005

Two electric beach wheelchairs have been obtained by B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation with Miami-Dade Parks capital improvement grant funding. We regret these are not yet available for general use; however, a test program is now underway & we hope they will be available shortly to the general disabled public.

SFFB & B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation have also suggested that an additional handicapped parking lot be provided east of A1A at the north end of Haulover Beach. This suggestion has been incorporated into the Haulover Master Development Plan, but its implementation is not currently funded.

Disabled Access:
Parking fees are waived for visitors with disabled/handicapped tags.

Parking at the small lot east of A1A (Collins Avenue) next to the lifeguard headquarters is reserved exclusively for disabled use.

Handicapped parking spaces are also provided in all lots west of A1A. Unfortunately all the pedestrian tunnels under A1A have stairs at the east end, requiring assistance for the wheelchair-bound or severely disabled to reach ground level.

Once east of A1A, wheelchairs may freely traverse the hard surface of the walk/bike path. However, at the beginning of 2005 the Park Department demolished the wooden handicapped dune crossovers to the beach, and have not yet installed a surface easy for wheelchairs to negotiate; currently, the path is just sand.

A manual beach wheelchair with balloon tires is currently available for free use by the disabled at lifeguard stand #27—the pink stand near the north end of the beach opposite the restroom on the map.

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