Dadeland North station is a station on the

Metrorail METRORail is the light rail system in Houston, Texas (United States). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . METRORail ranks as the second most-traveled light rail system in the Southern United States and the List ...

rapid transit Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT) or heavy rail, commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A grade separation, grade separated rapid transit line below ground su ...

system in the

Dadeland Dadeland is a commercial district and urban neighborhood similar to an edge city, amid the sprawling metropolitan Miami suburbs of Kendall, Glenvar Heights, and Pinecrest, in the U.S. state of Florida, at the end of the Metrorail line. Its ...

district of

Glenvar Heights, Florida Glenvar Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) and neighborhood in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The population was 20,786 at the 2020 US census, up from 16,898 in 201 ...

. This station is located at the intersection of

South Dixie Highway Dixie Highway was a United States auto trail first planned in 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South. It was part of a system and was expanded from an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final system is better understood as a network of ...

(

US 1 U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway System, United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort ...

) and Southwest 83rd Street on the

Snapper Creek The Snapper Creek is a creek in the U.S. state of Florida that drains out of the Everglades into Biscayne Bay at Biscayne National Park. It is a long creek south of Downtown Miami, running through the suburbs of Kendall and Coral Gables in me ...

, two blocks north of

Kendall Drive Kendall Drive, also known as Southwest 88th Street and historically North Kendall Drive, runs for in an east–west orientation across mid-southern Miami-Dade County, Florida. The majority of Kendall Drive, between State Road 997 at The Ha ...

and two blocks south from the US 1– Snapper Creek Expressway (SR 878) junction. It opened to service May 20, 1984. It is located along the border of Kendall and Glenvar Heights, two

census-designated places A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

. The station is in both areas.Metrorail Stations
" Miami-Dade County. Retrieved on January 3, 2015. "Dadeland North ..tation Address: 8300 South Dixie Highway" Dadeland North serves the communities of

, Glenvar Heights, Kendall, and Pinecrest, as well as serving the Dadeland Station and

Dadeland Mall Dadeland Mall is a large enclosed shopping mall located in Kendall, Florida, in the Dadeland district. The mall, originally developed by the Joseph Meyerhoff Company of Baltimore, opened October 1, 1962 as a , open-air complex of 60 stores and ...

shopping centers. Dadeland North over Snapper Creek

Station layout

The station has two tracks served by an

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

, with a parking garage immediately west of the platform.

References

External links

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MDT – Metrorail Stations

entrance from Google Maps Street View
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