Everglade National Park is the third largest national park in contiguous United States. It is just 35 miles from Miami. In fact the Everglades are fresh moving water with 50 miles wide and mere 6 inches deep. Everglades are well known as “River of Grass”. It originates from Lake Okeechobee and flows through the marshy grassland into Florida Bay. It will be a nice experience to admire the untamed Everglades alone or by a tour to many Everglades. Whatever it may be it is a must for you to take a plenty of mosquito repellant with you.

Everglades National Park is treated as a world traditional Site and International Biosphere Reserve. It is the only subtropical preserve in North America. The Everglades serves as the home to a lot of dangerous sort such as loggerhead turtle, southern bald eagle, manatee, Florida panther, American crocodile and brown pelican. Alligators are found commonly but it attacks human very rarely. Pygmy rattlers, coral snakes, water moccasins and diamondback are also looked.

The Everglades serves as a home for more than 347 kinds of birds which in holds Cape Sable sparrows, white ibis, herons, purple gallinules, short tailed hawk, anhinga, and sand hill cranes. Foreign Plants includes bromeliads, ferns and orchids. Saw grass which bears sharp teeth on the edges of their leaves is the common species.

Big Cypress National Preserve forms a part of the Everglades watershed and it is formed of 2,400 square miles of  marshlands, mangroves, slash pine, grasslands and both rare great bald cypress and dwarf . Some of these species are up to 700 years old.

Ernest F, Royal Palm Visitor Center and Coe Visitor Center are the main visitor centers. Cyclists can enjoy riding in the 15 –miles cemented road of Shark Valley.  From the park’s Shark Valley entrance a Naturalist-led open air tram is run.  The Anhinga Trial which is starting near by the Royal Palm Visitor Center by using a combination of boardwalks and pavement is a home to alligators, turtles, marshy sloughs, namesake anhinga birds and herons. The Gumbo Limbo trail tours you through a jungle of palms, wild coffee, ferns, peel-barked gumbo-limbo trees and orchids.

Airboats are strictly prohibited in the park. The best and safe way for you to admire the waterway is by kayak or canoe which glides you silently. The 6-mile Hell’s Bay Canon Tail and the 2-mile Noble Hammock Canoe Trail are clearly noticeable.

Miccosukee Indian Village must be visited to sense the Everglade’s first inhabitants.

There you can do some shopping for dolls, baskets moccasins; Native American bed work will be sold

You can use a tent and RV campgrounds at Long Pine Key and Flamingo and 48 primitive campsites. Though Florida is the top attractions for the guests it is endangered by slump and agriculture. The population of the wading bird has considerably comedown. Formally the alternating floods cycles was maintaining the wetland wildlife habitat but unfortunately it was not able to continue as the government flood-control system diverted the water to the gulf and ocean.

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