Tropical Small Town: Everglades City, Florida (pop. 352)

Located along southwest Florida’s laid-back Paradise Coast, Everglades City began as a water-locked frontier trading town that in the early 19th century became the base of operations for the “Tamiami Trail,” the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 that crosses the Everglades. Both quiet and unhurried, the tiny community is known as the gateway to the Ten Thousand Islands...

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