Wildlife Viewing - With Your Child - Everglades Experience

drawing of family With Your Child

Everglades Experience

photograph taken in the Everglades National Park

The Everglades is subtle, and the only way to its heart is by water, which means getting wet. Rangers at the national park say that if you haven't been out in water, you haven't experienced the Everglades.

They often lead "Slough Slogs" and "Swamp Tromps" through the shallow-water sawgrass prairies and into cypress domes or hammocks, where sloggers can collect fish, examine the pitted limestone, see the algae and ask the rangers as many questions as they want.

This is especially thrilling for children. Sloggers must wear long pants and lace-up shoes. For a park newspaper and a winter activities schedule, which includes family canoe trips and other programs, call (305) 242-7700 or check the Internet site, www.nps.gov/ever.