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Anhinga sunning with spread wings on a wooden post over Everglades sawgrass marsh
Wildlife

Anhinga Trail — Everglades National Park's Easiest Eye-to-Eye Wildlife Encounter

Eight-tenths of a mile of paved boardwalk over Taylor Slough, four miles inside the Homestead entrance, and in dry season every wading bird and alligator in the southern Glades funnels in. The easiest big-wildlife walk in Florida.
Massive bald cypress tree with knees in a quiet swamp with morning mist filtering through Spanish moss
Wildlife

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary — The 700-Year-Old Cypress and the Wood Storks That Live in It

13,000 acres of Audubon-protected old-growth bald cypress — some trees 700 years old, 130 feet tall — and the largest wood stork rookery in Florida. You see it all from a 2.25-mile boardwalk that runs through a forest older than the United States.