The Broadwalk

The Hollywood Broadwalk is a wide, 2.5-mile oceanfront promenade that runs along the beach — the Broadwalk, not Boardwalk, a distinction the locals care about since it is paved rather than wooden. It is lined with restaurants, cafes, bike rental shops, and vendors, and functions as the main outdoor living room of Hollywood Beach at all hours of the day.

Cyclists, inline skaters, joggers, and walkers share the promenade in reasonable harmony. The beach is wide and well-maintained, and the calm Atlantic waters here make it one of the better family swimming beaches in Broward County. Rental bikes and inline skates are available at several shops along the promenade. The northern end of the Broadwalk is slightly quieter; the southern end, near the main parking lots, is busiest.

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The Broadwalk was created in the 1920s as part of Joseph Young's planned city of Hollywood. Young was a real estate developer from California who bought 1,700 acres of South Florida in 1921 and laid out the entire city — streets, parks, canals, and promenades — on a grid. The Broadwalk was his vision of a genteel oceanfront that would appeal to Northern families. It has never quite lost that civic, family-oriented character, which is what distinguishes it from the more hedonistic scenes in Miami Beach.