Park Service / WGCU Unpopping the cork: This is one of two bridges built to raise several miles of Old Tamiami Trail, also known as U.S. 41, from ground level to atop a bridge some 20 feet above the water. roadway that acted essentially as a dam with two lanes on top for vehicles traveling from Naples to Miami

infrastructure has been built around Everglades National Park, including more than 3 miles of bridges on Tamiami Trail, to allow more water from the lake to flow south.

that will deliver massive amounts of clean, fresh water south to the Everglades, under the bridges of Tamiami Trail, and ultimately to Florida Bay.”

resulted in some areas being too dry for too long (e.g., marshes north of Alligator Alley or south of Tamiami Trail), has tipped the soil carbon balance in the wrong direction .

With the construction of Tamiami Trail bridges and 11 miles of seepage barriers, Everglades National

of the Everglades and a serene waterside trail. THINGS TO DO: Kayaking, Canoeing, and Hiking The Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve is located north of Tamiami Trail. You can access the boardwalk directly from Tamiami Trail but there are also other hiking trails throughout There are multiple trails that you can access from the main road.

and Sanibel on the Southwest coast, to Stuart and Palm Beach on the Treasure Coast, and to Broward, Miami Along the Atlantic coast, from Jupiter and West Palm Beach to Miami, the focus was drinking water security In Miami-Dade, the elevated bridges along Tamiami Trail and an underground seepage wall are restoring

es Sawgrass Trailhead at Atlantic Boulevard en el condado de Broward. El Florida Trail atraviesa la reserva y es el mejor lugar para caminar. ACTIVIDADES: Senderismo, Kayak, y Canoa Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park está ubicado al norte de Tamiami Trail. Puede acceder al malecón directamente desde Tamiami Trail, pero también hay otras rutas de senderismo

students, fostering a new generation of Everglades stewards through a STEM-based initiative that has trained been developed for the first time in history, freshwater is now flowing into the Everglades beneath Tamiami Trail bridges, a Restoration Strategies water quality plan is expanding treatment wetlands to clean

Completion of the 1-mile Tamiami Trail bridge marked a very important moment in Everglades restoration

Biscayne Aquifers – an underground body of water that provides drinking water for 5 million people in Miami-Dade Two structures in particular – a dike built south of Lake Okeechobee and the Tamiami Trail highway (Route

For example, the foundation led the charge on the Tamiami Trail, 284 miles of asphalt highway built a century ago to connect Tampa to Miami that stopped all water flow from the Everglades into Florida Bay dolphins in the middle of a unique feeding behavior only known to Florida: The cetaceans use their tails panther—one of just two hundred that still roam the sloughs and uplands of the Everglades—walks along a game trail