Sticks + Stems

Celebrate the arts at one of the nation's premier outdoor art events, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival. This event showcases art in various medias, and offers festival-goers the opportunity to purchase art and meet the artists with work featured. Fine cuisine and live entertainment are also in attendance at the festival.

There's plenty to do outdoors at the Everglades National Park and Shark Valley Visitor Center. From guided tours to hiking and biking, canoeing and kayaking, fishing and camping, you'll get your fill of nature here in the country's largest subtropical wilderness.

Enjoy Broadway classics, as told by the performers at one of the state's major regional theaters, the Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, The Full Monty, Footloose, Miss Saigon, Oliver!, and Grease have all been performed at this renown theater.

Climb the heights of the indoor peaks at X-treme Rock Climbing. This climbing gym provides indoor rock climbing and lessons, along with a full exercise area and yoga instruction. Before you set out on the 14,000-square-feet of climbing space, you have to sign a waiver and if you're going to enjoy rope climbing you have to pass a Belay Safety Test.