The Gumbo Limbo Trail in Everglades National Park is a serene and informative nature trail that meanders through a hardwood hammock ecosystem. Visitors can explore the lush tropical hammock and ...

And while a large part of the Everglades is covered in razor-sharp sawgrass, the region also encompasses mangroves, tropical hardwood hammocks (island forests), pine and cypress forests ...

For decades, this family "hammock" – as the tree-covered islands that poke out from the Everglades are known – has been their retreat; a place where the family can camp, cook and hunt.

Pig Jaw, Smallpox Tommy, Stinking Hammock and other islands where Frank lived and played as a child remain, but they’re chronically threatened by water. Without freshwater from the Everglades ...

Everglades National Park named best birding ... we rose at 4 a.m. to catch the incoming tide to House Hammock Bay. We eventually made it to the Cross Creek Chickee, or destination for the night ...

McNab Road. Known as “Sunset Hammock,” it features a long red aluminum structure. It has a community periscope for public viewing of the Everglades. The project had been in the works since at ...