In the rural center of the southern Florida peninsula, ranches and public lands surround the high ground of the Lake Wales Ridge until you reach Lake Okeechobee.
It’s the second largest lake entirely within the United States, ringed by a flood control dike. Its shores are best seen from the 109-mile circle the Florida Trail makes around it.
Sugar cane, citrus groves, and vegetable fields add to the agricultural mix in the rich earth of the “reclaimed” Everglades of yore.
To the south of these drained lands the Everglades River of Grass and its western companion, the grand cypress strands and prairies of Big Cypress, fill the horizon.


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