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Everglades National Park is a national park of the United States that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year. [5]
Everglades National Park was designated in 1947 and sits at the southernmost portion of the state. A cloud bank grows over the Gulf of Mexico off an island in Everglades National Park off of ...
American alligator at Shark Valley in Everglades National Park Two American alligators next to the bike path at Shark Valley. Shark Valley is a geological depression at the head of the Shark River Slough in far western Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is currently part of Everglades National Park.
Everglades National Park spans more than 1.5 million acres of South Florida. Visitors may enter from Miami, Homestead or Everglades City, near Naples, by land, and should note that the park’s ...
Flamingo is the southernmost headquarters of Everglades National Park, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.Flamingo is one of the two end points of the 99-mile (159-km) Wilderness Waterway (with another end point at Gulf Coast Visitor Center in the Everglades City), and the southern end of the only road (running 39.3 miles (63.2 km) [1]) through the park from Florida City.
The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928, when a Miami land developer named Ernest F. Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association. It had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934. It took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6, 1947. [130]
Part of the Archeological Resources of Everglades National Park MPS: 2: Bear Lake Mounds Archeological District: November 5, 1996 : Address Restricted: Flamingo: Part of the Archeological Resources of Everglades National Park MPS: 3: Cane Patch: November 5, 1996 : Address Restricted: Everglades City
Taylor Slough is a 247 square kilometer wetland system. The slough stretches from the east everglades, to the northern portion of Florida Bay. In its natural form, Taylor Slough is the primary source of overland, freshwater flow into the north eastern part of Florida Bay. [1] A major portion of the Taylor Slough resides in Everglades National Park.