Everglades National Park Travel Guide: Imagine a landscape that resembles less a postcard and more a living, breathing ecosystem. The Everglades isn't about jaw-dropping peaks or desert arches—it's about water, sawgrass, alligators, and some of the rarest wildlife in North America. Covering 1.5 million acres, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is nicknamed the "River of Grass" for its slow-moving sheet of freshwater that flows from Lake Okeechobee down to Florida Bay.

In the heart of the Everglades , I found myself swallowed by a world painted in green, the thick air heavy with the secrets of a...