Boca Raton

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Boca Raton, meaning "Rat's Mouth" in Spanish, is on the east coast of Florida between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. The name presumably comes from the shape of an inlet when the town was founded.

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Get in

By air

  • Fort Lauderdale International Airport
  • Miami International Airport
  • West Palm Beach International Airport

By car

  • I-95
  • Florida Turnpike

By rail

  • Amtrak

By water

  • The Atlantic Ocean - via port in Fort Lauderdale.

Get around

  • Tri-rail connects to Miami, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm.

See

Do

  • Beach
  • Fish
  • Intercoastal - tour by boat
  • Sugar Sands Park is a great place to take the kids. It has an enormous fort/jungle gym, carousel, ball parks, etc.


Buy

  • Boca Town Center Mall, high-end retail mall on Glades Road, just west of I-95 and east of Turnpike.
  • Mizner Park is a chic mixed-used new urbanism district in a revitalized part of downtown Boca.

Eat

Drink

Sleep

  • Boca Resort and Spa includes the tallest building in the city (and pink stucco, too), providing beachfront and intercoastal access.
  • Embassy Suites - Deerfield Beach, 950 Ocean Drive, 954 426-0478, [1].

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