December 2016 – The City of Homestead’s National Park Trolley is back for another season, with free transportation linking downtown Homestead to two national parks — Biscayne and Everglades National Parks. The trolley runs every weekend from now through April 30. For complete details and a schedule of trolleys, visit the city of Homestead’s website.
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December 2017 – Rotary Club of Key West and the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys are supporting on-site education programs at Dry Tortugas National Park this year with a Vision 20/20 grant from the foundation. The SFNPT and Rotary have been funding student trips to the park since 2005, and jointly helped the park
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December 2016 – Looking for a new place to fish in Everglades National Park? Check out remote Joe Bay in the northeast corner of Florida Bay. The park has re-opened the bay to no-motor boating and catch-and-release fishing after a closure of 30+ years to protect crocodiles. The good news: The crocs are doing better, to
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November 2016 – Acclaimed South Florida photographer Clyde Butcher and his family are supporting outdoor science education programs in the Big Cypress National Preserve this year with a donation of $6,500 to South Florida National Parks Trust. The donation represents the proceeds from this year’s Halloween swamp walks behind the family’s Big Cypress Gallery on
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By Annie Farrell Have you ever wanted to visit four national parks in one day? Well, now you can. “This Land Is Your Land: A Second Century for America’s National Parks” is an exhibit at the Coral Gables Museum that allows visitors to dive into what makes South Florida’s four national park sites so remarkable.
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October 31, 2016 – Congratulations to Big Cypress National Preserve, the first national park east of Colorado to earn an International Dark Sky designation. Big Cypress is one of the few places left in South Florida where you can see the Milky Way. Join us this season for one of the preserve’s monthly “star” parties
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August 8, 2016 – The National Park Service has selected Margaret L. Goodro to lead Biscayne National Park as its next superintendent. Goodro replaces Brian Carlstrom, who left the position in November 2015 to serve in a Deputy Associate Director position in the Washington, D.C. office of the National Park Service. “Margaret is a proven
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July 6, 2016 – Everglades National Park and the South Florida National Parks Trust (SFNPT) have won a $250,000 historic preservation grant to restore the park’s iconic Flamingo Visitor Center after a six-week national voting campaign, the SFNPT announced today. The Partners in Preservation grant awarded by American Express and the National Trust for Historic
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June 2016 – We’re excited to share the news: The Miami Foundation will be supporting the Everglades Environmental Education Program again this year by funding ranger-led environmental education programs for 4th-grade students at Shark Valley in Everglades National Park. Students who visit the park as part of the program will take a four-hour tram ride
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June 2016 – Thirty works of art created by the staff, volunteers and partners of South Florida’s four national parks will be on display in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery from June 3 through September 12, 2016. Inside Looking Out offers an “insider’s perspective of national parks across the country from those
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