The everglades and specifically the Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. You will find information at nps.gov, but here is a bit. The Everglades has two very distinct seasons: dry season and wet season. Dry season lasts from November to March and wet season lasts from April to November. Dry season is also the busy season because of the warm winters that attract the largest variety of wading birds and their predators. Wet season is buggy and many programs are no longer offered. The Everglades spans across 1.5 million acres that stretches over the southern part of Florida. The Everglades contains a variety of flora and fauna, freshwater sloughs, marl prairies, tropical hammocks, pinelands, cypress, mangrove, coastal lowlands, marine, and estuarine.