(45) Big Cypress National Preserve

Visited Together:

1. October 2005
   

Type: National Preserve
Region: Southeast Region
Location: Ochopee, FL
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The first National Preserve in the National Park System, Big Cypress is a meeting place of temperate and tropical species - and a hotbed of biological diversity. The Preserve serves as a supply of fresh, clean water for the vital estuaries of the 10,000 islands near Everglades City.

(44) Everglades National Park

Visited Together:

1. October 2005

Type: National Park
Region: Southeast Region
Location: Miami, Naples, and Homestead, FL
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The only subtropical preserve in North America, the "River of Grass" contains both temperate and tropical plant communities. The park, designated a Wetland of International Importance, is the only place int he world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side.

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 Shark Valley, October 2005

  Shark Valley, October 2005

(5) Mammoth Cave National Park

Visited Together:

1. September 2003

Type: National Park
Region: Southeast
Location: Mammoth Cave, KY
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: The most extensive known cave system on earth lies beneath the sandstone ridges of this park's surface. More than 350 miles of passageways have been surveyed and mapped...but to this day, the water-formed caves largely remain a mystery.

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