Welcome to Everglades National Park, one of the nation's great ecological treasures. It has about 1.5 million acres and sits in three counties — Miami Dade, Monroe and Collier. This is where ...

From the very beginning, Everglades was not like other national parks. “It was the first national park set aside for its biodiversity of plants and animals,” explained Allyson Gantt ...

Despite its unparalleled tropical beauty in the U.S., this majestic expanse of a park faces alarming challenges from climate change and air pollution originating from industrial sources and emissions ...

Everglades National Park is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States. It preserves the southernmost 20% of the Everglades. It was the first park to preserve an ecosystem.

Those who associate wide-open wilderness areas with the Western United States likely haven’t been to Everglades National Park. The Florida park stretches across 1.5 million acres and protects ...

Visit the park website for necessary fees, passes and potential closings. A century ago, NPCA spearheaded the effort to protect this primeval world of giant trees, expansive grasslands and idyllic ...

Since it lacked the distinguishing features of dramatic landscapes, many doubted whether the Everglades was even worthy of being a national park. "A swamp is a swamp," scoffed respected zoologist ...

Plip, plop, plip. Droplets of water fall from your paddle blade and splatter lightly on calm waters as you glide along just feet from a pristine beach in one of the most remote areas east of the ...

Lyssa Goldberg About 40 miles west of downtown Miami and a world away from flashy South Beach, the Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wetland in the U.S. Known as the "River of ...