The best view in west Miami-Dade used to be a landfill. Now it's a trail.
On Saturday, November 7, the Summit Trail officially opened at County Hill Sports Park, on the site of the former Miami-Dade County landfill at 6997 NW 97th Avenue. The county's invitation is simple: "Walk it. Run it. Cycle it." The new paved trail is open from sunrise to sunset, free to everyone.
There's something deeply Miami about the transformation. The hill that once collected the county's trash has been capped, greened, and reimagined as the high point of a public park — a place where the reward for the climb is the panorama: wide green fields below, big sky above, and a horizon that reminds you how much of this county is still open country once you drive past the last subdivision.
It also arrives at exactly the right moment. November is when Miami's weather turns glorious — the humidity breaks, the mornings go gold — and a brand-new trail on a brand-new hill is the season's easiest yes. Bring water, bring a friend, go watch the sun come up from the top of a place the county reinvented. If a landfill can become a hilltop, imagine what else is on the list.
