Fort Lauderdale's 165 miles of inland waterways carry more registered yachts than any city in America. The Intracoastal Waterway, completed in 1912 as a protected commercial corridor from Boston to Key West, now threads through a residential corridor where property values exceed $20 million per acre and private docks outnumber driveways three to one. Millionaire's Row, the mile-long stretch of Las Olas Isles between the 17th Street Causeway and Sunrise Boulevard, became the city's signature address in the 1920s when railroad tycoons and Hollywood producers claimed the barrier-island parcels. By the 1960s, the term had lost its literal meaning—billionaires had replaced millionaires—but the nickname persisted. The best sunset dinner cruise Fort Lauderdale operators launch from the Seabreeze Boulevard basin, where the New River meets the Intracoastal. The waterway runs north-south here, framing the westward Atlantic sunset between the high-rises of Fort Lauderdale Beach and the low-slung estates of Harbor Beach. Captains time departures to the October golden hour, which arrives at 18:45 and lasts 22 minutes before the sky shifts from amber to violet. The route passes beneath nine fixed bridges—clearance ranges from 25 feet at Las Olas Boulevard to 56 feet at the 17th Street span—and alongside the Bahia Mar yachting center, where 300 vessels dock in slips that rent for $4 per linear foot per day. Architecture along the route spans a century. The Bonnet House, visible from the channel at Birch Road, is a 1920s plantation-style winter estate built on 35 acres of coastal hammock; its Caribbean-yellow facade and twin chimneys mark the northern boundary of the historic district. Three miles south, the Venetian-style villas of Nurmi Isles, constructed in 1962 with private canals and arched bridges modeled on the Grand Canal, represent mid-century Florida optimism. Contemporary glass towers now crowd the skyline—45-story condominiums where penthouse units sold for $30 million in 2025—but the waterway itself remains a working channel, shared by commercial fishing boats, water taxis, and the occasional cargo barge heading to Port Everglades. Evening light softens the contrasts, turning steel and stucco into silhouettes as the sun descends behind the Everglades, 15 miles west.