Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year.

Everglades National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Sunset over the Everglades river of grass
Location in Florida##Location in the United States
Location	Miami-Dade, Monroe, & Collier counties, Florida, United States
Nearest city	Florida City Everglades City
Area
Visitors	597,124 (in 2018)
Website	Everglades National Park
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Type	Natural
Criteria	viii, ix, x
Designated	1979 (3rd session)
Reference no.	76
State Party	United States
Region	Europe and North America
Endangered	1993–2007; 2010–present
Invalid designation
Designated	4 June 1987
Reference no.	374

Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone.

UNESCO declared the Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve in 1976 and listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979.

Everglades National Park Media

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  Main Everglades map from the official park brochure.

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  Alligators thrive in freshwater sloughs and marl prairies.

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  A great blue heron along the Anhinga Trail

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  About 160 Florida panthers inhabit hammocks and pinelands of the Everglades.

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  Sunrise on the pine rocklands on Long Pine Key Nature Trail

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  Alligator in a cypress dome

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  Manatees inhabit shallow water around mangroves.

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  Mangroves reduce coastal erosion and shelter wildlife.

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  A Calusa chickee at the Florida Museum of Natural History

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  A canal lock being constructed in the Everglades in 1906