Other sights in Everglades National Park
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Long Pine Key
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Pinelands Trail
Rte 9336 cuts through the soft heart of the park, past long fields of marsh prairie, white, skeletal forests of bald cypress and dark clumps of mahogany hammock. There are plenty of trails to detour down. The half-a-mile Pinelands Trail takes you through a copse of rare, spindly swamp pine and palmetto forest.
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Seminole Museum
If you want to learn about Florida’s American Indians, come to this Seminole museum, 17 miles north of I-75. All of the excellent educational exhibits on Seminole life, history and the tribe today were founded on gaming proceeds, which provide most of the tribe’s multimillion-dollar operating budget.
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Mahogany Hammock
Rte 9336 cuts through the soft heart of the park, past long fields of marsh prairie, white, skeletal forests of bald cypress and dark clumps of mahogany hammock. There are plenty of trails to detour down; the half-a-mile Mahogany Hammock Trail leads into an 'island' of hardwood forest floating on the waterlogged prairie.
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Everglades City
The end of the track is an old Florida fishing village of raised houses, turquoise water and scattershot emerald-green mangrove islands. Hwy 29 runs south through town into the peaceful, residential island of Chokoloskee, past a great, psychedelic mural of a gator on a shed. 'What's there to do around here?' we ask our waitress. 'Eat.' Pause. 'Or go on an Everglades tour.'
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Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum
The best Everglades tourism news in years is the advent of this Seminole museum, 27km (17mi) north of I-75. With educational exhibits on Seminole life, history and the tribe today, the museum was founded with Seminole gaming proceeds. Never before have the Seminoles opened so much up to the public. Sure, it's good for business, but they really are dedicated to giving visitors a closer understanding of the Seminole and Miccosukee people.
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Anhinga & Gumbo Limbo Trails
Two trails, the Anhinga and Gumbo Limbo (the latter named for the Gumbo Limbo tree, also known as the 'tourist tree' because its bark peels like a sunburned Brit), take all of an hour to walk and put you face to face with a panoply of Everglades wildlife. Gators sun on the shoreline, anhinga spear their prey and wading birds stalk haughtily through the reeds.
Come at night for a ranger walk onto the boardwalk and shine a flashlight into the water to see one of the coolest sights of your life: the glittering eyes of dozens of alligators prowling the waterways.
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