The Western Everglades: The Big Cypress Swamp

Come out and visit the Big Cypress Swamp and make one of your stops Clyde Butcher’s Gallery and go on our swamp walks offered October - March behind our gallery. A Big Cypress Swamp walk is more than a walk in the park, it’s an adventure, a getaway and a thrill. Experience the primordial beauty of Clyde Butcher’s world when you experience a guided eco-swamp tour through the swamps of Big Cypress National Preserve behind his gallery. Marvel at the pristine splendor of natural Florida as you traverse through a rarely seen world, filled with vibrant colors and mysterious sounds. In this spacious, richly diverse wilderness of subtropical flora and fauna found nowhere else, you’ll learn about the fragile Everglades ecosystem. Deep in this serene, sacred space, your guide will point our endangered orchids, rare ferns, threatened bromeliad, native birds and a host of swamp creatures. Beneath the ancient cypress trees, stop and listen to the deep stillness of an unspoiled world that seems far from eve