Fort Myers Everglades Wilderness Adventure Experience

Spend a full day exploring the wilderness of the Everglades on this adventure from the Greater Fort Myers/Naples area. With your naturalist guide, take an exciting airboat ride in the Western Everglades, see wildlife on a drive through Big Cypress National Preserve, admire towering cypress trees on a nature walk, and enjoy a relaxing boat cruise along mangrove-lined waters to see manatees, dolphins and osprey. Your guide will teach you all about the Everglades and accompany you to lunch.

Meeting Point

Perkins Restaurant & Bakery

14801 S Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers, FL 33912, USA

Guide will meet guests in the south end of the Perkins Restaurant parking lot near the Dairy Queen at 7:30am.

Embassy Suites by Hilton Fort Myers Estero

10450 Corkscrew Commons Dr, Estero, FL 33928, USA

Guide will meet guests in front of the lobby around 8:00am.

What's included:

• Narrated van tour
• Expert naturalist or biologist guide
• 1-hour airboat ride
• Hotel pickup and drop-off (Only Select Hotels)
• Transport by air-conditioned 13-passenger van
• 1-hour boat cruise

What to expect:

Duration: 9 hours, 30 minutes

Airboats & Alligators

6001 Lake Trafford Rd, Immokalee, FL 34142, USA

Considered the best airboat ride in the Everglades, you'll be taken through the pond apple swamps and cattail marshes in search of alligators, turtles, birds and more!

1 hour, 10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Big Cypress National Preserve

33100 Tamiami Trl E, , Ochopee, 34141-1000, Florida

Wildlifedrive through the back country of the first Preserve in the National Park system.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Island Cafe

305 Collier Ave, Everglades City, FL 34139, USA

Enjoy lunch in the heart of the Everglades with a choice of over over 20 items including burgers, chicken, fish and salads.

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Smallwood Store Boat Tour

360 Mamie St, Chokoloskee, FL 34138, USA

Journey through the "Ten Thousand Islands" in Everglades National Park, the 2nd largest mangrove forest in the world where you will seek out dolphin, manatee and other species of coastal wildlife in the southern most frontier.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Smallwood Store

360 Mamie St., Everglades National Park area, Chokoloskee, 34138, Florida

Step back in time and explore the historic Smallwoods Store Museum. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum stands frozen in time, a window to a bygone era when the store was the islands trading post and island life revolved around the activities here.

25 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park

137 Coastline Drive, Copeland, 34137, Florida

Nature Walk through a grove of ancient cypress trees out to a "gator hole" where female alligators have been nesting for decades.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included