Naples / Marco Island KOA

Everglades National Park

Guided tours make access easy to the rare wildlife, Native American tribesmen and exotic trees and plants that are at home in Everglades National Park . Air boat tours and swamp buggy rides are available.

Big Cypress National Preserve

This 720,000 acre preserve is sure to amaze you! The freshwaters of Big Cypress Swamp support a mix of plants and a wide diversity of wildlife, including black bears, panthers and alligators. Enjoy hiking, canoeing, biking and camping. There are also scenic drives through the area. Open every day. No entrance fee. Located between Miami and Naples; the main roads through the site are I-75 and US Hwy. 41.

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Stroll the boardwalk through a “river of trees”, the country’s largest remaining stand of virgin bald cypress trees, home of alligators, great egrets, white ibis and limpkins.

Wootens Alligator Farm

The Wooten family has been entertaining visitors since its inception in 1953. For some action-packed excitement, tour the Everglades from the comfort and safety of an authentic swamp buggy. Travel through Halfway Creek, filled with tropical flora and fauna native only to the Everglades - and of course an alligator or two. The airboat tour takes guests on a five-mile tour of Native American canoe trails used during the Seminole wars within the big cypress preserve. More than 200 live alligators, 27 endangered American crocodiles and one of southwestern Florida's largest live snake collections are on-hand for photo opportunities. Wooten's is located 35 miles south of Naples on US-41, Ochopee, Florida

Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve

A scenic road leads visitors through an unspoiled swamp forest with the largest stand of native royal palms and the largest variety of orchids in North America.

Miccosukee Indian Village

Visitors can learn how early peoples lived in the Everglades and see demonstrations of woodcarving, bead work, basket weaving and world-famous Indian alligator wrestling.

Fort Myers

Visitors can see the winter home and laboratory of Thomas Edison and the next-door home of his friend, Henry Ford; tour the J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge; or try their hands at shelling on Sanibel and Captiva Islands.