Port Everglades Map: Two Sentences on Screen, Eight Records Behind a Click

Two sentences render on the Port Everglades parking map and 2,229 characters wait behind a click

Broward County publishes its cruise map at porteverglades.net/parking-custom-map, and the page renders 171 characters of its own text: a heading and one 27 word sentence. The eight terminal records that answer the question, 2,229 characters of address, cruise line, parking and entrance, load only when a shape on the drawing is clicked.

The Port Everglades parking map is a county web page pairing each of eight cruise terminals, at a seaport 1.8 miles from the airport, with a garage or lot. That gap is the whole story of the page. A driver who opens it, reads what is on screen and leaves has read “Find Terminal Parking” and a single instruction to select a terminal. A driver who clicks a building gets an address, a cruise line, a parking assignment, sometimes a drop-off order and, twice out of eight, the nearest gate.

There is a second surprise underneath. Port Everglades also publishes a conventional drawn map of the whole seaport, with a legend, street names and the security checkpoints on it, and files it under a different label in a different menu. Everything below was read from Broward County pages, files and markup in September 2026 and checked again on October 7, 2026.

Component of the Port Everglades parking map page	What Broward County ships	What loads before anyone clicks
Standing page copy	The heading “Find Terminal Parking” plus one 150 character sentence, printed once for desktop and once for mobile	All 171 characters of it
Desktop drawing of the port	One inline vector drawing, 1440 by 800 units, 328 drawn shapes, no text element anywhere in it	The picture, with every label drawn as letter outlines
Mobile drawing of the port	A second inline drawing, 890 by 800 units, also 328 shapes, with one extra ocean label layer	The picture only, on the same terms
Eight cruise terminal records	1,477 characters of address, cruise line, parking assignment, drop-off order and closest entrance	Nothing until a building is clicked
Eight repeated alerts	The same 94 character sentence attached eight times, 752 characters in total	Nothing, and the wording differs from the sentence on screen
Eight route animations	Looping image files, 500 by 375 pixels each, 266 frames and 376,173 bytes across the eight	Nothing until a building is clicked
Outbound links	One link per record to the matching Port Everglades terminal page, 8 of 8	Nothing, and none of those 8 terminal pages links back

Broward County labels two downloads Port Map, and neither one is the interactive page

Open the Cruise menu on any Port Everglades cruise page and an item called Port Map sits directly under the eight terminals and the Cruise Guide. It does not open the interactive page. In September 2026 it downloaded a PDF of 326,025 bytes whose file name read Port Facility Guide FINAL August 8 2023; on October 7, 2026 the same item, on every page read, downloads the newer drawing instead.

A second link carrying the same Port Map label sits on the port guides and publications page, and opens that same newer drawing: an Adobe Illustrator file of 1,303,753 bytes, served as application/illustrator, whose drawing prints the title PORT FACILITIES, the stamp Update 03-19-2026 and the job number PO202698062. It is the newer revision of the same map, in a format a phone will not display.

Both drawings carry an identical legend of 23 categories, and it is the legend a cruise passenger wants: BERTHS, CRANE, RAILROAD, HARBORMASTER TOWER, CRUISE TERMINALS, GRID, ICTF YARD, BROWARD CO. BUILDINGS, FEDERAL/STATE BUILDINGS, PARKING – SURFACE LOT, PARKING – HERON GARAGE, PARKING – PALM GARAGE, CELL PHONE LOT, CEMENT, DINING, SHOPPING/GROCERY, GAS, HOTELS, CASH MACHINE, PHARMACY, HOSPITAL, PUBLIC VIEWING and SECURITY CHECKPOINT, with a footnote that automatic defibrillators are located in all cruise terminals.

One line on that drawing exists nowhere else on the Broward County site. The facilities map prints two exit numbers at the port approach, Exit 12A marked to the airport and Exit 12B marked to Port Everglades. The Getting Here page stops one junction upstream, sending I-95 southbound to Exit 26, I-95 northbound to Exit 24, I-75 to Exit 19 and Florida’s Turnpike to Exit 54, and never names the exit that puts a car at the gate.

Document Broward County publishes for Port Everglades	Where the link to it sits	Format and size as the server delivers it	Date the document itself carries	Best for
Port Facility Guide	The Port Map item in the Cruise menu in September 2026; no page read on October 7, 2026 links it	PDF, 326,025 bytes	August 8 2023, inside the file name	Reading the whole seaport to scale on a phone, at the cost of a tenant list three years old
Port Everglades Facilities Map	A tile labelled Port Map on the port guides and publications page and, by October 7, 2026, the Port Map item in the Cruise menu	Adobe Illustrator file, 1,303,753 bytes, served as application/illustrator	Update 03-19-2026, printed on the drawing	The current revision, for anyone with software that opens it
Find Terminal Parking, the interactive page	A button on the cruise parking page, two clicks from the Cruise menu	Web page, 114 KB, nothing to download	16 January 2025, in the port’s own sitemap	Matching one terminal number to a garage, a cruise line and a drop-off order

What the Port Everglades map draws, layer by layer, in its own markup

The drawing is more generous than the two sentences beside it suggest. Its 328 shapes are grouped into named layers, and the names describe a working port map: 17 shapes for the road network, 61 for the street labels, 18 for the legend, and separate groups for Parking Lot A, Parking Lot B and Parking Lot C at four shapes each, and none for Parking Lot D, the 850 space lot the parking page lists beside Cruise Terminal 18 on October 7, 2026. The Heron label takes 21 shapes and the Palm label 20, which pairs the drawing with the Port Everglades parking facilities and the $25.00 daily maximum they share.

Three more layers draw things the cruise parking page never names. A cell phone lot group of 15 shapes marks a waiting area that only the Arriving and Departing page describes in words. An airport callout of 22 shapes points at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 1.8 miles away. And the two largest lettering groups on the entire drawing, at 32 and 30 shapes, are labelled BCC garage and BCC in the markup: the convention center and its garage get more drawn letters than either cruise garage.

None of that lettering is text. Neither drawing contains a single text element, title element or accessibility label, so the street names, the legend and the garage names are all letter-shaped outlines. Nothing on the map can be searched, copied or read aloud, which is why the terminal numbers behind the eight Port Everglades cruise terminals and the garages assigned to them have to be carried in from somewhere else.

Two details in the interactive layer reward a closer look. Nine shapes sit in the clickable target group and only eight carry a terminal identifier, so one hit area on the map opens nothing. And Cruise Terminal 2 is the only building given an active state rather than a hover state, which makes it the record the page opens on, whichever ship a visitor came to look up.

Eight route animations are the only turn by turn Port Everglades publishes

Each record carries a looping animation of the drive from the gate to the parking, and Broward County publishes no written directions from a checkpoint to a garage anywhere on its site. Between them they run 266 frames and 36.6 seconds between them, weigh 376,173 bytes, and measure 500 by 375 pixels apiece. Seven were created on 25 November 2024 and the eighth, Cruise Terminal 18, on 10 January 2025.

Their titles are where the map argues with itself. Five name the same facility the record names in words, and three do not.

Cruise terminal record on the Port Everglades map	Title the record gives its animation	Frames and running time	Parking the same record names in words	Do the two agree
Cruise Terminal 2	Terminal 2 Heron	43 frames, 5.9 seconds	Parking in the Heron Garage	Yes, both name the Heron Garage
Cruise Terminal 4	Terminal 4 Heron	20 frames, 3.2 seconds	Parking in the Heron Garage	Yes, both name the Heron Garage
Cruise Terminal 18	Terminal 18 – 4 Day	38 frames, 5.0 seconds	Parking lots B and C unless directed to alternate parking	No, the title names a sailing length instead of a facility
Cruise Terminal 19	Terminal 19 Standard	30 frames, 4.2 seconds	Parking primarily in the Palm Garage	No, the title names no facility at all
Cruise Terminal 21	Terminal 21 Lot A	33 frames, 4.5 seconds	Parking in the Palm Garage unless directed to alternate parking	No, the title names Parking Lot A, which the words never mention
Cruise Terminal 25	Terminal 25 Palm	33 frames, 4.5 seconds	Parking in the Palm Garage	Yes, both name the Palm Garage
Cruise Terminal 26	Terminal 26 Palm	30 frames, 4.2 seconds	Parking in Palm Garage unless directed to alternate parking	Yes, both name the Palm Garage
Cruise Terminal 29	Terminal 29 Palm	39 frames, 5.1 seconds	Parking in Palm Garage	Yes, both name the Palm Garage

The Cruise Terminal 21 line is the one worth stopping on. Its animation is titled for Parking Lot A, the 770 space surface lot with its entrance at 2000 Eller Drive, while the words in the same record send a driver to the Palm Garage. Broward County’s parking page places Parking Lot A near Cruise Terminals 19 and 26 instead, so three county documents put the same lot in three different relationships.

Where a Port Everglades map record and the terminal page it links to disagree

Each record links to the terminal page for the same building, and one pair does not match on the address. The map gives Cruise Terminal 26 as 2026 Eller Drive, Hollywood, FL 33316. The terminal page it links to gives 2026 Eller Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316. Same street number, different city, one click apart. The pages on the other side of those links carry the measurements the records omit, from 259,370 square feet at Cruise Terminal 18 down to 80,200 square feet at Cruise Terminal 29, with 104,162 square feet at the Disney building: the map assigns the parking and the terminal page measures the hall, and neither does both.

Address styling drifts across the eight as well. Five records abbreviate the state as FL and three, for Cruise Terminals 18, 21 and 25, spell out Florida, and the Cruise Terminal 2 record carries a stray double space before its ZIP code. None of that misroutes a car, but it is the signature of eight records typed by hand rather than pulled from one list.

The warning is doubled too. The sentence on screen asks a visitor to check back the day of the cruise because parking assignments may change; the alert inside all eight records says lot assignments may change. Two nouns for the same risk, from the same county, on the same page, which is the sort of split that also runs through the cruise line each Port Everglades terminal is attributed to.

The drop-off instruction is the most uneven field of all. It appears in five records and in three different wordings: Cruise Terminal 2 reads “Drop off passengers and luggage prior to entering garage” with a capital D, Cruise Terminals 19, 25 and 26 read “before entering garage” in lower case, and Cruise Terminal 29 reads “before parking”. Cruise Terminals 4, 18 and 21 carry no drop-off line, a gap that matters more once you read the opening hours Broward County puts on each Port Everglades gate, where two of the three checkpoints close at 6PM.

Which Port Everglades document to open, by the question a driver is actually asking

Four questions cover almost every reason to look for a map of this port, and a different Broward County document wins each one.

Which garage does my terminal use. Winner: the interactive record on the parking map, because it is the only place the county pairs a terminal number with a facility and a cruise line in one line. The nuance: the Cruise Terminal 18 and Cruise Terminal 21 records both end with “unless directed to alternate parking”, so the pairing is a default rather than a promise.

Where is the checkpoint, the cell phone lot or the hotel. Winner: the facilities map, by a distance. Its 23 category legend marks security checkpoints, both garages, the surface lots, the cell phone lot, hotels, dining, a pharmacy and a hospital, none of which the interactive map explains in words. The nuance: the copy the Cruise menu served in September 2026 carried August 8 2023 in its file name, and by October 7, 2026 the menu serves the March 2026 revision as a design file a phone cannot open.

Which exit gets me to the gate. Winner: the facilities map again, and only the facilities map, because Exit 12B to Port Everglades and Exit 12A to the airport appear on no other Broward County cruise page. Anyone driving the 1.8 miles from the airport instead will find that run priced and timed in what the airport and the port each publish for the trip between them.

Which terminal is my ship in on the day. Winner: neither map. Both describe the port as it stands, and the interactive page says so itself by asking a visitor to check back the day of the cruise. The berth by berth answer lives on the county’s public vessel traffic board, which is the artifact behind the Port Everglades ship schedule and the berths it lists by day.

Details of the Port Everglades map that the parking page never mentions

• The map has no page heading of its own. Its browser tab reads Terminal Parking Custom Map, an internal working name, and the page carries no first level heading at all, which is why a search result for it rarely looks like a map.
• Its address sits at the root of the site, one of 21 top level pages, filed beside cargo and about us rather than under cruise. That placement is the reason the Cruise menu never lists it.
• Getting to it takes two clicks and neither one uses the word map at the second step. A card called Port Parking on the cruise landing page leads to the parking page, and the button there reads Find your terminal parking.
• The nearest gate the map names is the one that shuts. Both records carrying a closest entrance, Cruise Terminal 2 and Cruise Terminal 4, point at SE 17th Street and Eisenhower Blvd., which the port’s security page hours as 6AM to 6PM. The gate that never closes, Eller Drive at I-595, runs 24 hours and appears on no record at all. Landing to check-in is a window of 45 minutes to one hour by the port’s own reckoning, and those gate hours have to fit inside it.
• The map carries no price. The $5.00 first hour, the $25.00 daily maximum and the $35 oversized day stay on the parking page, one click back, so the document that assigns the garage is not the document that costs it. Nor does it give the roof: the 7 feet published for the Heron and Palm garages appears on the parking page only.
• The link runs one way. All eight records link out to their terminal pages, and not one of the eight terminal pages links back to the map, so a passenger who starts at Cruise Terminal 25 never learns the map exists.
• The cell phone lot has three published addresses across two pages. The cruise landing page links the words cell phone lot to a pin at 2800 Eisenhower Blvd, while Arriving and Departing names two lots, at 1850 Eller Drive and north of Cruise Terminal 18.
• Only county property is drawn. Commercial lots outside the fence appear on no Broward County map, which leaves the off-site parking options around Port Everglades and what each issuer publishes to be checked operator by operator.
• The facilities map does name one hotel inside the port, the Omni Fort Lauderdale, alongside the Broward County Convention Center, and it is the same county naming used in what Broward County actually publishes about hotels near the cruise terminals.

Where the Port Everglades map sends a driver wrong

Copying the address straight off the map record is the first trap, and it has exactly one victim. The Cruise Terminal 26 record says Hollywood and the terminal page says Fort Lauderdale for the same 2026 Eller Drive, so a satellite navigation system fed the map version is being told to cross a city line that the building never crosses. The other seven records agree with their terminal pages.

Screenshotting the map weeks ahead is the second. A change warning hangs off every record and off the page header, in two different wordings, precisely because a terminal can be reassigned; a picture taken in advance carries the warning and none of the update.

Searching the page for a terminal number is the third, and it fails silently. With no text element in either drawing, a browser find turns up nothing even while the number is plainly visible on screen, and the same is true of the address at 1901 SE 32nd St. for Cruise Terminal 18 until its shape is clicked.

Assuming the Port Map item in the Cruise menu is the parking map is the fourth, and it is the easiest to make, because the label is the more obvious of the two. In September 2026 it opened a 326,025 byte facility guide that names no cruise line and marks the eight cruise terminals as bare numbers among cargo berths and 19 numbered petroleum companies; on October 7, 2026 it downloads the design file instead.

Clicking either Port Map link on a phone is the fifth. Both now hand over an Adobe Illustrator file rather than opening a page, and a phone will download 1,303,753 bytes it has no way to display.

How these Port Everglades map figures were checked

The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section, and every figure credited to Broward County or Port Everglades was read again on October 7, 2026, twice and minutes apart, after Tariff No. 12 was reissued on October 1, 2026. The port’s own pages and its tariff page are the places to confirm any of them before the trip. Every October 1, the first day of its fiscal year, the county reissues its port tariff, while shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.

Six questions about the Port Everglades map and what it actually shows

The answers below come from the same readings as the tables above, taken in September 2026 and repeated on October 7, 2026: the parking map page and its eight records, the cruise parking page, the cruise landing page, the eight terminal pages, the port guides and publications page, and the two facilities map files.

A county that drew the map twice and hid the readable one

Broward County did the expensive work. Someone drew this seaport to scale with a 23 category legend, marked the checkpoints and the cell phone lot and the pharmacy, revised it on 19 March 2026, and separately built an eight record interactive page with a route animation for every terminal, 266 frames of it.

Then the county filed the drawing under a menu label that sounds like a formality, by October 2026 shipped it only as a design file, and gave the interactive page a URL outside the cruise section that its own eight terminal pages never link to. What renders on that page, before anyone clicks, is 171 characters.

The map exists. Finding it is the part Broward County left to the driver.

Related guides

• The eight Port Everglades cruise terminals and the garages assigned to them
• What a week in a Port Everglades garage costs at the $25.00 daily cap
• The three Port Everglades gates and the hours Broward County puts on them
• Which terminal each Port Everglades cruise line is attributed to
• The vessel traffic board that pairs a ship with a berth by day