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Here's everything you need to know before planning a trip to Everglades National Park.

They are back “after an absence of 35 years,” officials say.

From mountains that touch the sky to miles of mysterious marshes, the national parks of the east are each one-of-a-kind.

Everglades National Park The Everglades ecosystem once stretched across a mosaic of wetlands and subtropical wilderness from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. Unfortunately, by the mid-1900s nearly half of the slow-moving “river of grass” had been drained to make way for farms and urban development. The park was established in 1947, after decades of activism, to preserve a treasured 1.5 million acres of the ecosystem. The Everglades is a complex mix of salt and freshwater wetlands, hardwood hammocks, and pine rocklands that support a wide variety of flora and fauna. The ecosystem functions...