Other Outings In The Everglades, Homestead, Florida
Everglades National Park is one of the nation?s largest national parks, second only to Yellowstone. Although the Wilderness Waterway is the most challenging of all the Everglades? outdoor activities, you?ll find plenty of oth... trails.com
Canoeing The Everglades, Homestead, Florida
The Wilderness Waterway skirts the western edge of the 1.4-million-acre Everglades National Park. We launched outside the park at Turner River so we could explore a narrow, eight-mile stretch not open to larger boats. It?s ou... trails.com
Miami-dade County Parks And Preserves: Castellow Hammock Park...
If you are an urban explorer, there are some fine parks and preserves worth visiting in the Metropolitan Miami area. The Miami-Dade Parks Department manages more than 10,000 acres of natural areas, which contain remnants of h... trails.com
Spotlighting Alligators At Night, Homestead, Florida
Some activities defy rational justification. Going out into the Everglades, alone, at night, to spotlight alligators is one of them. Further more, this trip isn?t turning out to be as simple as planned. I?ve spotlighted plent... trails.com
Everglades National Park
- The early movement to protect a segment of the Everglades coincided with the settlement and growth of South Florida as people began to recognize the uniqueness of the watery wilderness. In 1916, the Royal Palm State Park... wildernet.com
Biscayne National Park
Within sight of downtown Miami, yet worlds away, Biscayne protects a rare combination of aquamarine waters, emerald islands, and fish-bejeweled coral reefs. Here too is evidence of 10,000 years of human history, from pira... citysearch.com
Long Pine Key Nature Trail (Gate 4 To Gate 8) And Mosier...
Long Pine Key is the principal upland area of Everglades National Park and encompasses about 20,000 acres of pine rockland habitat interspersed with more than 120 tropical hardwood hammocks. Long Pine Key is periodically bise... trails.com
Along The Park Road - Everglades National Park, Miami, Florida
Includes: Anhinga and Gumbo Limbo Trails, Pinelands Trail, Pa-Hay-Okee Overlook Trail, Mahogany Hammock Trail, West Lake Trail, Long Pine Key. It?s possible to walk the 45-mile length from the visitor center at the main park ... trails.com
Royal Palm Hammock: Ahinga Trail, Gumbo Limbo Trail, Old...
This area gets its name from the royal palm (Roystonea regia), a tall majestic palm that is native to Florida. Early explorers and botanists used these towering royal palms as landmarks to find Royal Palm Hammock long before ... trails.com
Pinelands Short Loop, Florida City, Florida
This 0.4-mile trail loops through a forest of slash pines (also called Caribbean or Dade County pine), the only pine species found in the Glades. They grow in a karst landscape known as a rocklands environment. Soft Miami lim... trails.com
Royal Palm Hike: Gumbo Limbo Trail, Florida City, Florida
Although less than a mile, the Anhinga Trail is probably the park?s singular most popular walk. It starts as a paved trail that?s actually part of the old highway built in 1916 from Homestead to Flamingo. The narrow ribbon of... trails.com
Biscayne National Park
Within sight of downtown Miami, yet worlds away, Biscayne protects a rare combination of aquamarine waters, emerald islands, and fish-bejeweled coral reefs. Here too is evidence of 10,000 years of human history, from pira... recreation.gov
Miami Area, Miami, Florida
This chapter on the birding areas around the Miami area includes descriptions of the bird-watching at these various destinations: Miami Shores, Biscayne Gardens, Miami Springs, South Miami, Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park,... trails.com