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The Steward of the Swamp in 1955, back when the Loop Road was a limestone trail so rough that travelers had to rig their trucks with airplane tires, 16-year-old Robert Warren hitchhiked to the Everglades. He trapped coons, snakes and frogs, and he took a job at a general store where he sold goods to hunters and shot pool with the local Miccosukees. Later, he took up surveying and eventually retired in Naples, where he helped The Tamiami Trail earn a scenic-highway designation. On Warren's recommendation, check out Shark Valley in the Everglades National Park, where there's an overlook that frames a vista of saw-grass prairie. Or take a detour on the still-dusty Loop Road out to Gator Hook Swamp and Sweetwater Strand, where the Spanish moss drips low off the cypress trees and time seems suspended at the water's edge.
Everglades National Park: (305)242-7700 -- B.M.
* Used with permission from Esquire Magazine.
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