Tamiami Park is a public urban park in metropolitan Miami, just south of the Modesto Maidique campus of Florida International University.
A swimming pool was built in the mid-1970s equipped with state-of-the-art solar panels to heat the water.
Pope John Paul II held an open-air mass for 150,000 people in September 1987.
[1] Tamiami Stadium (sometimes called Tamiami Field) was located in the park until 1995, when FIU Stadium was built on the south end of the campus.
The Miami Toros of the North American Soccer League played there during the 1976 season.