Miami Car Rentals and Everglades National Park
For a serene and tranquil getaway from the long lines and noisy crowds, Everglades National Park is the perfect place for you to pack up Orlando car rentals and enjoy the scenery. With over one million acres and visitors to the park each year, Everglades National Park is one of the largest in North America. The park is open year round with the highest visitation between December and April. The list of activities to do at the park are endless: horseback riding, hiking, fishing, canoeing, camping and boating; the possibilities are infinite! Here are just some of the things you can check out when you visit Everglades National Park:
There are five visit centers that each offer something unique to educate and entertain you about the different areas of the Park. Check out one or all of them on your Orlando car rentals trip.
Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center
In December 1996, this new visitor center was opened and dedicated to honor Ernest F. Coe who helped establish the park with his ongoing efforts that spanned 20 years. The center was built to replace one that was destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. It houses state of the art technology to help orient visitors arriving in Orlando car rentals to the Park and also informs them on issues confronting the South Florida ecosystem.
Educational displays, orientation films, brochures, and information are available. Books, film, postcards, and insect repellent may be purchased in the bookstore. No trails start from this visitor center. The Long Pine Key Campground and Picnic Area is six miles further west, and is surrounded by an abundance of hiking trails.
Royal Palm Visitor Center
The Royal Palm Visitor Center has displays with recorded messages that interpret the park's unique ecosystems. You can also purchase books, film, postcards, and insect repellent, and vending machines with snacks and soft drinks are also available, however, food or drinks are not permitted on the interpretive trails.
Flamingo Visitor Center
This visitor center is open from November through April and offers natural history exhibits and information. A perfect place for a weekend getaway in Orlando car rentals, there is a restaurant, gift shop, lodge and campground conveniently located nearby.
Boat tours and canoe rentals are also available at the marina. The marina also sells gas and general supplies. A post office is located in the lobby of the lodge for you to send off those post cards to everyone back home to show them what a beautiful place Orlando car rentals has brought you to. Several hiking and canoeing trails begin at Flamingo or nearby, including the south end of the Wilderness Waterway. Abundant wildlife may be found here year-round so don't forget to pack the camera as you may get the perfect shot of an endangered species inhabiting in the Everglades.
Gulf Coast Visitor Center
The Gulf Coast Visitor Center is located in Everglades City, in the northwest corner of the park. The visitor center features many natural history exhibits, and information, and issues backcountry permits and park passes.
Gulf Coast is the gateway for exploring the Ten Thousand Islands, a maze of mangrove islands and waterways that extends south to Flamingo and Florida Bay. Manatees, dolphins, and osprey coexist in this saltwater portion of the Everglades. Enjoy a 1 hour 45 minute narrated boat trip that will provide an overall description of this saltwater ecosystem. Alternatively, you can rent a canoe to explore Chokoloskee Bay and the Turner River. For the more adventurous, the 99 mile (159 km) Wilderness Waterway, which is accessible by canoe, kayak, or small motorboat, winds through the mangrove islands all the way to Flamingo.
You will be astonished by all the beauty and wildlife in the Everglades National Park.
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