Facts about the Everglades

• The Everglades stands as the third largest national park in the United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone.
• The Everglades National Park is visited on average by 1,000,000 people each year.
• Total Area1, 2,335 square miles (6,110 km2).
• Creation Date May 30, 1934
• Unlike most U.S. national parks, Everglades National Park was created to protect a fragile ecosystem instead of safeguarding a unique geographic feature.
• Highest Elevation 9 feet on Totten Key
• 50 species of reptiles live within Everglades National Park.
• The park was established in 1934 to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades and dedicated in 1947.
• The Everglades is actually a very slow-moving river.
• Over 40 species of mammals are found in Everglades National Park.
• The Everglades is the only place in the world where the American Crocodile and the American Alligator co-exist in the wild.