Please see the Calendar for when and where we work. Oleta is HUGE so be sure to send a Reservation; we will provide a map and cell# so you can find us.

Oleta is a wonderful Park, with tons of stuff to do, some great environmental areas, and the potential for a lot more habitat.
Kayaking/Canoeing, off-road bicycling, swimming, snorkeling, etc.

Address:
3400 N.E. 163rd Street
North Miami, Florida 33160

Website:
http://www.floridastateparks.org/oletariver/

Phone:
305-919-1844

Driving from I-95:
Take 826 EAST (167 St). After you cross Biscayne Blvd, it is just before the tall bridge on the right.

Projects:

Maritime Hammock + the UPG Habitat Zone:
UPG Planted 550 trees and shrubs over approx. 0.75 acres in November 2010. The Maritime Hammock will expand to 3.5 acres at later phases. Organic Stewardship is being employed in the surrounding area to control and remove Burma Reed and other exotics. The total area being planned for Stewardship and Planting is roughly 23 acres.

Hammock in the YCA Habitat Zone:
UPG planted roughly .5 acres of Hammock at the south end in August 2009 with 144 trees. During the Consciousness Getaway we planted 32 trees within the north Camping area, and hundreds of native grasses. Organic Stewardship is ongoing.

Adoption of South Point:
We’ve been doing Organic Stewardship since we Adopted South Point in November 2008. Of the more than 10,000 invasive plants removed from Oleta, most were from this area. An experiment is being conducted that we hope will provide alternatives to herbicide.

Red Mangrove Planting:
Large areas were graded as part of a mitigation project. We’ve planted 4,500 Mangroves since 5/31/09 working with DERM and Volunteers from a Liberty City church, an Overtown school, Belafonte TACOLCY Center and Miami Museum of Science Summer Camp (lead by members of Urban Paradise).

Nursery Expansion:
There are huge areas of the Park where Habitat must be created, and the Nursery is tiny.
Working mostly with kids, we’ve expanded the Park’s Nursery by around 50x. We’ve planted over 5,000 seeds and 1,750 mangrove propagules.
Beginning in August 2009, we are gathering seedlings and saplings from Park areas where they are too crowded or can’t survive. On 8/8, we dug and potted 120 Mahoganies (some saplings were 10′ tall) and 64 Wild Lime seedlings.