Hillsboro Beach/Lighthouse Point

Natural beauty enhanced by human hands is the theme running through an intensely attractive stretch of coastline called Hillsboro Beach or the Hillsboro Mile (actually 2 miles) bordering Highway A1A.

As one drives this route, the placid waters of the Intracoastal Waterway flank the highway's western side, where pleasure craft sway at private moorings belonging to estates across the small road. The oceanfront estates on the eastern roadside snuggle out of sight among lush foliage. Occasionally a glimpse of gold and blue flashes out from breaks in the concealment.

Hillsboro Lighthouse, at Lighthouse Point, positioned at the Hilsboro Inlet, at the southern tip of Hillsboro Beach, began functioning in 1907 and still warns mariners of treacherous reefs 200 feet offshore. Hillsboro Lighthouse is not publically accssible, as it is on privately owned land.

The rhythm of ancient placidity follows one in feelings and thoughts as one hikes, or contemplates the ever-present ocean, from within the 244 acres of Dania's John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area, a seashore park offering nature hiking and boating, as well as fishing and picnicking. The 1/2 mile strip of Dania beach, mostly in its natural estate, with its beautiful sand and water, well deserves its widespread reputation of exceptional beauty.