Everglades National Park in southern Florida is one large park, covering 1.5 million acres of hammocks, prairies, sloughs, cypress domes, mangrove forests, coastlands and bays. If you’ve never visited this national park before, it might feel a little daunting deciding where to go and what to do, depending upon how much time you have.
Everglades National Park: The River of Grass / NPS-B. Call via Flickr
Traveler editor and founder Kurt Repanshek visited Everglades in 2016 and wrote an article about how you might spend your time if you have even just three days.
Swaying to and fro in the afternoon breeze, the River of Grass appears more like a wind-tussled meadow than a river. But beneath the sawgrass the water gurgles and creeps. It flows slowly south from Florida’s great inland sea—Lake Okeechobee—and into Everglades National Park, headed towards its final destination in Florida Bay.
But how can you even attempt to explore this land-and-waterscape in just three days? How can you do more than merely scratch the surface? While you can’t see it all, here’s a 72-hour itinerary that will let you get a taste of this magnificent wilderness.
To read this article and take away a few ideas for your own visit, head over to this page.
