⁴ᴷ Road Trip #1154 - US-1 N - Florida Mile 168-173.8 | North Miami Beach/Aventura/Hallandale Beach

⁴ᴷ Road Trip #1154 – US-1 N – Florida Mile 168-173.8 | North Miami Beach/Aventura/Hallandale Beach

Welcome back to 504 Road Trips! In today’s video, we’re on US Highway 1 northbound at mile 168, re-entering the City of North Miami Beach. The city limit zigzags in this area, so US-1 slips in and out of North Miami Beach more than once as the line weaves around Maule Lake and neighborhood pockets west of the Intracoastal. North Miami Beach is notably international, with a majority foreign-born population and a mix of low-rise apartments, neighborhood plazas, and older Mimmo-era storefronts along Biscayne Boulevard. We’ll cross NE 163rd Street up ahead, a major east-west artery that leads to Sunny Isles Beach and Oleta River State Park on the barrier side, while the core of North Miami Beach is back to our left with parks and civic buildings tucked off West Dixie Highway.

Just west of here is Greynolds Park, a classic Miami-Dade green space with a golf course, lagoon views, and dense canopy you can sometimes glimpse from US-1 near its northern edge. You’ll also see frequent signposts for beaches, fishing charters, and neighborhood markets as we approach the north side of town. Keep an eye on side streets—delivery trucks nose out from older plazas, and cross-traffic can be lively at peak times. Entering Aventura, US-1 keeps the Biscayne Boulevard name and, within city limits, also carries the honorary designation “Aventura Parkway.” Here the corridor shifts into a denser, master-planned look: glassy residential towers in the distance, waterway cuts, and a steady cadence of signalized intersections serving large shopping centers on the right.

Aventura is a compact city that leans older than the metro average and remains highly international; it had a population of about forty thousand in recent estimates. The skyline you’ll see to the east includes Williams Island and other high-rise clusters across Maule Lake; to the west, the street grid feeds toward West Dixie Highway and the Florida East Coast Railway. The big visual anchor here is Aventura Mall on our right—Florida’s largest enclosed mall by floor area. You’ll likely spot the parking-garage massing first, then the main entrances and art pieces near Biscayne Boulevard. The mall sits at 19501 Biscayne; we roll right along its frontage for a stretch.

Just to our left, in the rail corridor between West Dixie Highway and US-1, is Brightline’s Aventura Station.

Brightline is Florida’s private intercity rail linking Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando with higher-speed trains and level boarding. The station’s island platform is in the rail median; the station building sits on the west side of West Dixie Highway, and a pedestrian bridge brings riders over Dixie into the station complex and out to the platform. What you won’t see yet is a direct pedestrian bridge across US-1 to the mall. That connection has been planned but, as of our filming window and even now, it hasn’t opened—so the walk from the station to the mall is notoriously long because you can’t simply dash across Dixie, the tracks, and Biscayne.

The county and Brightline have moved the bridge plan forward, but until it’s finished, the practical options remain a rideshare or a circuitous sidewalk route. Driveways are busy all along this frontage, and signal timing can be tight—expect frequent pedestrian phases, especially on weekends. The corridor then eases past more neighborhood plazas and mid-rise office and medical buildings as we aim toward the county line. We leave Miami-Dade County and enter Broward County at Hallandale Beach, where US-1 takes on its familiar Broward name: Federal Highway. Broward County was carved from Dade and Palm Beach in 1915 and named for Florida governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward.

Today it’s one of the nation’s largest counties by population, stretching from the Atlantic beaches through urban cores to vast Everglades conservation lands in the west. Tourism, cruising from Port Everglades, the beach cities, and a major airport hub in Fort Lauderdale are big pieces of the regional picture, but along Federal Highway you’ll mostly feel the classic South Florida arterial vibe—frequent signals, low- and mid-rise commercial rows, and steady north-south flow feeding beach causeways. Hallandale Beach itself is a compact, beach-to-I95 city with a population in the low-40-thousands and a substantial share of older residents and seasonal visitors. If you’re scanning for landmarks you can actually see from US-1, the headliner is Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino, occupying most of the right-hand side of Federal Highway through Hallandale Beach.

You won’t miss the signage and the packed parking fields on event days.

Further ahead, eastbound Hallandale Beach Boulevard heads to the oceanfront parks and high-rise condos; westbound reaches I-95. The Federal Highway streetscape here mixes everyday retail with destination dining tied to the track and casino. Our segment ends at mile 173.8 as we enter the city of Hollywood. Thanks for watching!

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