Places to go in The Everglades.

Everglades & Big Cypress, Homestead, the Ten Thousand Islands. There are five places here.

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Everything in The Everglades, by category.

Lakes & rivers

Everglades National Park

Homestead, FL · The Everglades$

Three entrances lead into Everglades National Park, and they don't connect inside it: Homestead, Shark Valley on US 41, and Everglades City on the Gulf Coast. Each is at least an…

Lakes & rivers

Biscayne National Park

Homestead, FL · The EvergladesFree

Biscayne National Park, at the end of SW 328th Street in Homestead, has one mile of paved road, and you need a boat to reach most of it. Without one, book the Biscayne National…

Lakes & rivers

Big Cypress National Preserve

Ochopee, FL · The EvergladesFree

From December to May, alligators gather at the Oasis Visitor Center on the Tamiami Trail in Big Cypress National Preserve. That's the dry season, when the wildlife collects at…

Attractions

Coral Castle

Homestead, FL · The Everglades$$

Edward Leedskalnin weighed about 120 pounds. The heaviest stone he quarried for Coral Castle in Homestead weighs more than 21 tons. He worked without electricity, with pulleys…

Attractions

Everglades City Airboat Tours

Everglades City, FL · The Everglades

Rides leave from Everglades City and last about an hour, starting slow on the Barron River before the captain opens it up through mangrove tunnels and narrow creeks. The family…