A Swamp in Big Cypress

Big Cypress National Preserve

We took the Tamiami Trail (US 41) from Naples to the Big Cypress National Preserve largely to pick up a park pin for Alan Bow. The most interesting part of Big Cypress for me was Loop Drive (SR-94).

Loop Drive was an adventure. It is a 26-mile, one-lane, unimproved dirt road that is so rutted, pot holed and torn up that 15 miles-an-hour was our teeth jarring top speed. Five miles-an-hour was more the norm. With no place to turn around and rarely room for two vehicles to pass, once we started there was no turning back. It was a little scary having a road like this and no an idea of what was around the next curve. I generously let Brian drive (see: Our Big Cypress Trip).