Posted by: If you appreciate taking your own interesting holiday photos, South Florida offers some wonderful, whimsical, and festive displays. Adorable selfies. Pose with pals.
Broward, Dade and greater Palm Beach offer lots of opportunities in 2024 for impressive Instagramable pictures. Plenty of places and events with holiday decor are free.
Photo/Dania Pointe
Snow in Dania
Dania Pointe shopping and dining plaza offers free outdoor activities with a winter vibe. Snow flurries with holiday tunes and snowmen formed from Florida-style snow offer a whimsical vibe. The events are free. The plaza features free parking.
Plantation
Photo-worthy holiday lights and whimsical decorations are featured outside City Hall, 400 NW 73rd Avenue, Plantation 33317. The displays previously featured a sleigh with an area to sit inside, presents, a snowman, Hanukkah décor, a nativity scene, and a tree. Parking is free.
Plantation display. Photos/Patti Roth
Tropical Snowman
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Olas a dashing 40-foot beach snowman is available for pictures on A1A and Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Free entry.
Las Olas Oceanside Park is decked out for the holidays with decorative displays for photo ops, including a golden arch in the shape of an ornament, 3000 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale 33316. Entry is free. Parking fees are about $4 an hour.
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Manatee friends
Photo/Manatee Lagoon an FPL facility
Manatees offer a Florida flavor for holiday photos or anytime photos. An indoor replica of the delightful animals is featured at Manatee Lagoon, . Free entry.
Feature: Manatee Lagoon in Riviera Beach offers interactive exhibits & it’s free
Photo: city of West Palm Beach
Sandi sand sculpture
Holiday in Paradise on the waterfront in West Palm features lots of distinctive features, including an impressive 35-foot sand sculpture shaped as a tree. attraction includes a lighted ferris wheel, fountain with dancing waters and array of photo ops, including other sand sculptures and decor. Free entry. Holiday in Paradise is at 127 Clematis St., West Palm Beach.
West Palm
The Square in West Palm Beach hosts a holiday attraction that includes snowfalls and a lights show. The Square is a shopping, dining and residential neighborhood at 700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm. Light shows and snowfalls are 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. November 9-December 31 with free entry weather permitting. Santa is at the plaza 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays, and 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Sundays November 9-24 for photo ops. The parking fees are about $8.30 with taxes and fee after 5 p.m. Mondays – Thursdays, after 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays, the parking fee is $11.59.
Lovely bridge in Japanese garden
A petite red bridge poised in a Japanese garden is a lovely place for photos. It's at Miami Beach Botanical Garden, with lots of other picturesque places. 2000 Convention Center Drive. Entry is free.
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Free Holiday Photo Shoots
Various Broward library branches are offering free photo shoots and photo op displays for family and friends. Some of the backdrops are digital images on a green screen. Bring props if you'd like.
Plantation Winter Wonderland exhibit
The free indoor Winter Wonderland display includes variety of theme decorated trees
International Tree
Sweet Treats tree
The Florida Panthers tree
A Hanukkah display and train village are featured.
The venue is Plantation Historical Museum, 954-797-2722, is at 511 N. Fig Tree Lane, Plantation 33317. Entry and parking are free.
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Dania Beach
Dania features a glistening tree outside City Hall, 100 W. Dania Beach Blvd, Dania Beach 33004. For other photo ops, Dania Arts Park features outdoor sculptures and other art installations.
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Coral Springs
Lights displays and a decorated tree that twinkles to holiday tunes are featured 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. December 7-31 on the lawn at Coral Springs city hall, 9500 West Sample Road, Coral Springs 33065.
The walk-up displays include a snowman frame, ornaments, and a a walk-thru lighted gift.
Miami-Dade
Free photos with Santa at Brickell City Centre through Tuesday, Dec. 24 from 1-5 p.m., 701 S. Miami Ave., Garden Deck, Level 2.
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