Exploring the Culture, Coasts, and Hidden Corners of Florida
Where Is Everglades City? Everglades City sits about 45 minutes southeast of Naples in Collier County, at the western edge of the Everglades ecosystem. To get there, you drive east on U.S. 41 (the Tamiami Trail), then turn south on…
Where Florida thins out into water and sky. Flamingo sits at the end of the road. Past Homestead, past the last subdivisions and gas stations, the landscape begins to flatten and spread. By the time you reach Flamingo, the Everglades…
South of Miami’s bustling core, past the traffic of Coral Gables and Kendall, lies a suburban community that serves as a quieter threshold between city and wild. Cutler Bay is not a tourist mecca in the traditional sense — it…
Homestead, at the southern edge of Miami-Dade County, feels like a threshold city. To the west lies the wilderness of Everglades National Park, to the east Biscayne National Park’s coral waters, and just beyond the southern horizon stretch the island…
Between the Sidewalk and the Sawgrass Weston doesn’t creep up on you. It’s not hidden. It’s deliberate. Tucked into the far western edge of Broward County, Weston is a master-planned enclave that seems to have been laid out with a…
There are parts of Florida where the ground feels uncertain. Step off trail and you’re in water. Paddle too hard and you’re stuck in grass. Collier-Seminole State Park sits in this tension zone—where Gulf Coast salt meets Everglades wetland, and…
On the western edge of Miami-Dade County, the pavement dissolves into sawgrass. There, where the city’s sprawl runs out of patience, begins one of the strangest national parks in the country: Everglades National Park—a place so flat, so watery, and…
When most people think of South Florida, they conjure up the neon pulse of Miami or the high-rise glitz of Palm Beach. But nestled in the middle — dynamic, diverse, and deeply Floridian — is Broward County. It’s a place…
A Whispering Threshold The air gets thick before the trailhead even appears. It wraps around you like a damp shawl, heavy with cypress musk, sun-warmed fern, and something older—something ancient. Stepping onto the boardwalk at Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park…
Florida is a land of surprises, where dense swamps, sun-drenched coastlines, and sprawling wetlands create a habitat for some of the most fascinating creatures in North America. From the prehistoric alligator to the elusive panther, the Sunshine State is home…