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The Everglades National Park was the first place where we felt like honest-to-goodness birders. We walked around book in hand, binoculars on point, ears wide open. Our heightened senses weren’t necessary; birds are everywhere! The Park’s famed Anhinga Trail follows a boardwalk through a densely inhabited landscape. The birds (and the alligators) seem too content [...]

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south Florida Visited: January 21, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 133 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? At 1.5 million acres, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This review covers the Shark Valley area, which consists of a loop road leading to an observation tower through a [...]

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near Florida City, Fla. Visited: January 21, 2005 NPS Site Visited: 133 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? At 1.5 million acres, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This review covers the areas of the park accessible through its main entrance located just outside Florida City, [...]

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near International Falls, Minn. Visited: June 4, 2004 NPS Site Visited: 51 of 353 NPS Website; Local Website WHAT IS IT? A boreal forest ecosystem carved by Ice Age glacial action consisting of dozens of lakes and hundreds if not thousands of islands. Voyageurs NP is a water-based park. 84,000 acres of water, in fact. [...]

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