Guides to the towns and entrances that lead into Everglades National Park.
If your trip is built around Miami rather than Homestead, Shark Valley -- not the main entrance -- is the part of Everglades National Park you're actually visiting.
A former county seat turned fishing village, Everglades City is the Gulf Coast entrance to the Everglades and the jumping-off point for the Ten Thousand Islands.
Florida City is small, but its location makes it useful: it's the last town on US-1 before the 18-mile stretch to the Keys, and a straightforward, budget-friendly base for the Everglades.
Homestead sits about 10 miles from the park's main entrance and doubles as the doorway to Miami-Dade's tropical fruit country and one of Florida's strangest roadside attractions.