Cooleys Landing

Though a city operated as a marine facility Cooley’s Landing is actually a park, historical site, picnic area and marine facility all wrapped into one. Though rather small it is one of the most pleasant, located on the north shore of the New River just upstream from the SW 7^th Avenue draw bridge with navigational location of Lat /​Lon: N 26° 07.000′ /​W 080° 09.000′.
Named in the honor of early settler William Cooley, it is historically significant as being the site of the Cooley Massacre of 1836 when Indians attacked the Cooley homestead killing his family and a child tutor. It is also, according to most historian, not only the place of the beginning of the Second Seminole War but what was the impetus leading to the construction of the military post, Fort Lauderdale.
As a facility it offers a comfort station with rest rooms, showers and a laundromat, water, electric, telephone jacks, cable TV/​HBO, dockside parking, sewage pumpout connections at each slip, three boat launches, on-​site security and public telephones.
I might add that it also has a very friendly as well as downright cute local duck population, one that took to following me all around the area causing a tourist to ask me if I were its mother.

Great place to meet for kayaking, cycling, walking, picnic, hide from the rain, watch boats, etc