Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park sits in that useful middle ground between “too obscure to bother with” and “too famous to enjoy.”

The trip in is less complicated than it looks on a map, provided you’re flexible about where you sleep.

You can spend three days at Everglades National Park and only scratch the surface of the sawgrass marsh.

My default advice is to go december through april (dry season). Outside that window there are still good days here, but the baseline quality drops.

Bring a scope e one. More of this place is at middle distances than you’d think.

My most memorable morning there was mid-season, soft fog, two dozen birds in a thirty-minute window, and I remember about three of them.

Honest assessment: Everglades National Park is good but not magic. On a bad day you’ll still have a bad day here.

Corrections on anything here, especially access updates, are welcome.