Royal Palm Visitor Center

The Royal Palm Visitor Center is located about four miles inside the Everglades National Park entrance from Homestead. There are walking trails here that are worth visiting even if you’ve already spent time at the larger Ernest Coe Visitor Center. Each trail is half a mile long and offers interpretive signs. After viewing some of the unusual Everglades flora and fauna, you may have questions, and the interpretive signs do a good job of answering some of the most frequently asked questions. For example, you’ll learn about why the strangler fig has such a deadly name. Mostly the trails are wheelchair accessible. There are also rangers here at the Royal Palm Visitor Center, who lead educational walks along the trails, year-round.

signs marking the trails, and easy pull-off spots for your car. They make it easy to explore and get outside your car to see the wildlife and the plants that make up the Everglades National Park.

• Gumgo-Limbo Trail

  This trail is half a mile long.

• Anhinga Trail

  It’s also half a mile long.

• Pa-hay-okee Overlook

• Pineland Trail

• Mahogany Hammock Trail

• West Lake Trail