Trail Lakes Campground and Everglades Adventure Tours
Trail Lakes CampGround and Everglades Adventure Tours
Located in Big Cypress National Preserve just minutes from Everglades National Park. Family owned and operated since 1963.
We offer Glamping in one of our Chickee Cottages or tent and RV sites. Wifi, hot showers, laundry, firewood. Call 1 800 504-6554 or evergladescamping.net.
While you are here, explore nature with an Everglades Adventures Tour. Enjoy Kayak Safaris, Swamp Hikes, Birding Tours, Photo Tours and much more! evergladesadventuretours.net.
We are located at 40904 Tamiami Trail E. Ochopee, Florida, 34141
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Big Cypress National Preserve Tours 2019 - Discover Everglades
Discover the Everglades, Big Cypress National Preserve on Tamiami Trail (US41) and Loop Road Scenic Drive in Florida. See famous places, alligators, birds and the beautiful wildlife here.
Be sure to stop by the Great Cypress Visitor Center, Oasis Welcome Center, Ochopee Post Office, H.P. Williams Roadside Park (great place to watch alligators) and the Loop Road. All are off Tamiami Trail. Sights you will see no place else.
Take in the original sounds of the breathtaking nature and wildlife. No boring chit chat, only original Sounds. Enjoy.
We start here:
Watch these places:
Big Cypress National Preserve
Wonderful area with lots to do. Be sure to start at the Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center. Manatee, alligator, tons of birds, Hiking, camping & star gazing. Love it :)
Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center
The ranger was super nice and informative and gave us an overview of the map. It’s definitely worth a stop inside. There's a boardwalk along the canal where gaters are too.
Ochopee Post Office
Smallest Post Office in the United States
Stop, read the plaque, and maybe mail a postcard. It's cute, and one of those You were there places. There is really the smallest Post Office in USA, just 5 sq m, with a kind postman sitting inside, ready to stamp and to send your card from this very special, tiny and unique Post Office.
H.P. Williams Roadside Park
We stop by this park every year on our annual trip to the Everglades. The alligators never disappoint! It's right on the highway, easy to park. There are always nice birds and fish too. Definitely stop there!
Big Cypress Oasis Visitor Center
Great place to stop on the 41 ,stretch your legs and view the alligators .Small visitor centre with interesting postings of animals and birds sighted in the area .
Loop Road Scenic Drive
Loop Road is an absolute must for any photographer and film-maker. If you want to see some remarkably gorgeous spots, take the drive! Of the 24 miles, a good 12 to 15 of them are rather unremarkable and you just need to get through them. This is a wonderful drive if you want to see the Everglades up close and personal.
You will see alligators and birds in their natural habitat. We saw a big gator on the street :) So watch out.
Stops Loop Road:
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31:08
32:00
36:32
37:45
39:07
1:00:50
Surprise at: 1:02:16
Thanks for watching. Enjoy. See you there, Alex
More about:
Big Cypress National Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
Freshwater to the Sea
The freshwaters of the Big Cypress Swamp, essential to the health of the neighboring Everglades, support the rich marine estuaries along Florida's southwest coast. Protecting over 729,000 acres of this vast swamp, Big Cypress National Preserve contains a mixture of tropical and temperate plant communities that are home to a diversity of wildlife, including the elusive Florida panther. Read More:
America's Everglades - The largest subtropical wilderness in the United States
Everglades National Park protects an unparalleled landscape that provides important habitat for numerous rare and endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile, and the elusive Florida panther.
An international treasure as well - a World Heritage Site, International Biosphere Reserve, a Wetland of International Importance, and a specially protected area under the Cartagena Treaty.
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Baby crocodile's ear scratching in Wooten's Everglades Airboat Tours, Ochopee, FL, USA (2019.02)
2010 Everglades Adventure
Join Cindy and Mark in the Everglades as we experience a great ride on an airboat and a swamp buggy followed by a stop at the smallest US Post Office in America, the Ochopee Post Office.
Drive to Everglades City Florida 2017 !
Trail Lakes Campground - Florida Everglades
Located on US 41 just east of Naples, Florida. The Trial Lakes Campground offers 30-50 amp and water sites. Excellent location for base camp to see lot of natural Florida land and wildlife.
Everglades Chickee Cottage & Bungalow - Ochopee in Ochopee FL
Prices: . . .. .. ... . . . . . . . . . Everglades Chickee Cottage & Bungalow - Ochopee 40904 Tamiami Trail East Ochopee FL 34141 In the Big Cypress National Preserve, this South Florida, environmentally-friendly vacation park features Native American-built huts and small cottages with prairie views. Free Wi-Fi is provided. Nature enthusiasts can enjoy Native American-built chickees (Seminole word for house) at the Everglades Chickee Cottage and Bungalow Ochopee. The bungalows have air conditioning, and a shared bathroom is provided at the campground. Free parking is available to all guests at this Ochopee Everglades Chickee Cottage and Bungalow property. Guided tours, a tour desk, and a souvenir shop are on site. Everglades Adventure Tour is located on site, and the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge is 24 miles away. The property is also a 38-minute drive from Marco Island.
Swamp Buggy Ride through the Florida Everglades
Jetset insider Michele Mahone drives a swamp buggy through Big Cypress National Preserve. Read her piece on the experience at
Inscription on Collier County plaque for the Ochopee Post Office:
Ochopee Post Office - Considered to be the smallest post office in the United States, this building was formerly an irrigation pipe shed belonging to the J.T. Gaunt company tomato farm. It was hurriedly pressed into service by the postmaster Sidney Brown after a disastrous night fire in 1953 burned Ochopee's general store and post office. The Present structure has been in continuous use ever since as both a post office and ticket station for Trailways bus lines- and still services residents in a three-county area, including deliveries to Seminole and Miccosukee Indians living in the region. Daily business, often includes requests from tourists and stamp collectors the world over for the famed Ochopee post mark. The property was acquired by the Wooten Family in 1992.
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2-6-17 Big Cypress Midway Campground, Everglades National Park, Florida
Day 31 - We decided to camp once again at Big Cypress Midway Campground in Everglades National Park, Florida.
Music: Going, Going, Gone by The 126ers uploaded from YouTube free audio library.
Midway Campground review in Big Cypress Preserve Florida
This is a close look at Midway Campground in Big Cypress national Preserve located on U.S. 41 in South Florida. The campground is located about halfway across the peninsula, thus the name Midway. I had an interesting encounter with an alligator while fishing which you will see also.
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Big Cypress Swamp Buggy Tours
Come take a ride on the wildlife side with Big Cypress Swamp Buggy Tours in Ochopee, FL. If you are looking for the trip of a lifetime for your family or maybe for your employees, we can accommodate you!
Jungle Ervs Mangrove Canopy Airboat Tour
Crazy Everglades Swamp Buggy Ride!
The 68th annual Wild Hog BQQ event with the Everglades Conservation and Sportsman Club featuring the Jay Valor band.
The event includes the traditional dinner, a live band, sporting clays, free swamp buggy rides, kid’s games including BB shoots and archery shoots, door prizes, raffles, an animal show and more!
More Information:
$20.00 for adults and $10.00 for kids under 12
The gates open at 11:00am! The traditional BBQ dinner will be served from 12:00 – 3:00pm. The Wild Hog BBQ meal ticket includes entrance to the club grounds for the day of the BBQ and the traditional BBQ meal. The traditional meal includes chicken and ribs, baked beans, and cole slaw.
Address
50940 Loop Rd Ochopee, Fl 34141
The Everglades Conservation and Sportsman Club
The club was formed in 1950 by eight men, interested in conserving the wildlife population in the Big Cypress and Everglades. At the time the State of Florida had only recently established the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.
The club is located at Monroe Station, 40 miles due west of Miami, immediately south of the western intersection of the Tamiami Trail and Loop Road (state road 94). The club property consists of 40 acres, the clubhouse and service buildings plus a camp ground. A paid custodian maintains the grounds at all times. There are only about 150 members, the club membership is kept small, because the club wants to insure that it is composed only of those people that have worked for the clubs objectives.
The most important thing about the Club membership is that virtually everyone truly loves the Everglades and the Big Cypress and is personally prepared to work hard to protect it. Members work closely with the Game Department officers in reporting game violations, assessing game populations and water levels. The club has supported projects to propagate game through releases into under-populated areas. It has dug water holes in dry weather and fed animals in wet and flooding weather. We have supported Youth Camps and both Boy Scout and Girl Scout clubs. A number of club members have assisted law enforcement, fire and emergency forces in performing rescue work when airplanes have crashed or have been forced to land in the deep swamp and to fight fires.
The club holds an annual “Wild Hog Barbecue”, its sole fund raiser to cover its expenses and conservation efforts.
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Camping on bear Island (Everglades)
The Western Everglades: The Big Cypress Swamp
Come out and visit the Big Cypress Swamp and make one of your stops Clyde Butcher's Gallery and go on our swamp walks offered October - March behind our gallery. A Big Cypress Swamp walk is more than a walk in the park, it's an adventure, a getaway and a thrill. Experience the primordial beauty of Clyde Butcher's world when you experience a guided eco-swamp tour through the swamps of Big Cypress National Preserve behind his gallery. Marvel at the pristine splendor of natural Florida as you traverse through a rarely seen world, filled with vibrant colors and mysterious sounds. In this spacious, richly diverse wilderness of subtropical flora and fauna found nowhere else, you'll learn about the fragile Everglades ecosystem. Deep in this serene, sacred space, your guide will point our endangered orchids, rare ferns, threatened bromeliad, native birds and a host of swamp creatures. Beneath the ancient cypress trees, stop and listen to the deep stillness of an unspoiled world that seems far from everyday life. In this light-filled realm of wonder and awe, you are completely surrounded by nature in her purest and most sacred state. Visit clydebutchersbigcypressgallery.com for more info
Wonkey's Fabulous 50 Tour - Day 5 : Goin’ Wild in Florida
Somewhere in the wilds of Florida…..
South of Saint Cloud, by Lake Cypress….
There’s a great little place called Wild Florida. They do Airboat rides and Truck safaris but Wonks doesn’t fancy those…..can’t stand getting mud in his fur.
But that’s not the half of it!
There’s a really nice, quiet animal park here that lets you get up close. Honestly. We went there for a couple of hours and stayed for most of the day. Take a tip, folks. These guys don’t advertise themselves enough.
If you’ve always wanted to cuddle a sloth, step this way…………
Airboat Everglades Boat Trip
Our first trip to Wild Florida and first airboat ride on the everglades.
23/6/18
Everglades National Park 3-minute Tour
Everglades National Park covers nearly one and a half million acres -- the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. It is the anchor to South Florida's ecosystem, and encompasses an incredibly rich mixture of plant and wildlife habitats.
This video is an excerpt from Finley-Holiday Films' new America's National Parks Blu-ray and DVD. Available on location at national parks throughout the USA and from finleyholiday.com.
Everglades& South Florida's National Parks DVD also available.
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