35 miles SW of Miami Before going, my conception of the Everglades was that it was one big swamp swarming with ominous creatures. For someone who'd rather endure an endless series of root canals than audition for a role on Survivor (the closest I'd ever been to nature was sleep-away camp), the …
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Thirty-five miles outside Miami, Everglades National Park is home to pristine salt marshes and myriad species of wildlife: pelicans, sea turtles, manatees, and bald eagles. Neighboring Big Cypress National Preserve is a watery wilderness that protects the Everglades watershed. Created in …
Spanning the southern tip of the Florida peninsula and most of Florida Bay, Everglades National Park is the only subtropical preserve in North America. It contains both temperate and tropical plant communities, including sawgrass prairies, mangrove and cypress swamps, pinelands, and …
35 miles S. of Miami, 21 miles E. of Everglades National Park With only about 500,000 visitors each year (mostly boaters and divers), the unusual Biscayne National Park is one of the least-crowded parks in the country. Perhaps that's because the park is a little more difficult than most to …
The Florida Keys are a wilderness of flowering jungles and shimmering seas, a jade necklace of mangrove-fringed islands dangling toward the tropics. But they are also a string of narrow islands overburdened by a growing population and booming tourism. Unfortunately, in the Keys you can't have …
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