National Parks Traveler Episode 166: Slogging Through A Cypress Dome At Everglades

By Kurt Repanshek - April 17th, 2022

I recently had the great opportunity to visit Everglades National Park in South Florida on the tail end of the dry season.

Gazing out across the national park as we drove south from the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center towards Flamingo, my eyes swept across sawgrass prairie that was broken only occasionally by tree islands. Ivory-white egrets and great blue herons were the most obvious birds on this soggy landscape, though a few ospreys cruised overhead.

Few trails headed out from the road. That no doubt explained why, when we pulled over near one of those tree islands that touched the road, cars and trucks whipped by us in such a hurry that they couldn’t appreciate this unique landscape.

Yvette Cano, the national park’s director of education, had been checking her GPS coordinates as we drove south and here, along the road, she was satisfied that we had arrived at our destination.

Looking at the thick bald cypress forest, I wasn’t exactly sure what made this spot so attractive until Cano led me, Contributing editor Kim O’Connell, and Special Projects Editor Patrick Cone off the shoulder of the road and into the water.

02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Everglades National Park Ranger Yvette Cano leads Traveler Editor Kurt Repanshek on a slough slog into a cypress dome.
9:50 Spring Fever - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Everglades
10:06 Great Smoky Mountains Association
10:25 Interior Federal Credit Union
10:47 Potrero Group
11:13 The Everglades Foundation
11:24 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
11:55 Kurt Repanshek and Yvette Cano continue on their slough slog.
19:40 Whispering Winds - Grant Geissman - The Sounds of the Caribbean
19:54 Friends of Acadia
20:19 Yosemite Conservancy
20:39 Wild Tribute
21:00 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
21:20 Washington’s National Park Fund
21:57 Kurt and Yvette continue to slog through a cypress dome at Everglades National Park
33:19 No’Easter - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
33:26 Episode Closing
34:08 Orange Tree Productions
34:39 Splitbeard Productions
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