all ages such as sight-seeing tours, photography, bird watching, geo-caching, hiking, world-class fishing, kayaking, biking, boating, and some of the best sunsets in the world. With the two islands slow pace and no stoplights our visitors will definitely feel that they have slipped back into time.
Everglades National Park is 1.5 million acres and is the nation’s 3rd largest National Park in the lower 48 states after Death Valley National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Everglades National Park was created in 1947 in order to preserve the areas biological diversity.
Thirty-six species designated as threatened or protected live in the park, including the Florida panther, the American crocodile, and the West Indian manatee. Everglades National Park protects the largest U.S. wilderness area east of the Mississippi river and is the most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds in North America. More than 350 species of birds, 300 species of fresh and saltwater fish, 40 species of mammals, and 50 species of reptiles live within Everglades National Park. The Everglades stretches over 100 miles from the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee around Disney World through Florida Bay.