Backcountry Clubhouse Beach — Everglades National Park

Challenging 7 mile hike to get there on in maintained, but beautiful trail. Was very wet (August). Must cross mud flats to get to beach. Beach is not a swimming beach, it’s muddy & shallow. Very thin sand area to putch tent in. Mosquitoes & no-see-ums can be horrible if no breeze. We got beautiful clear day, but scary thunderstorm at 3 am! Better not to attempt in summer.

Flat backpacking trail about 7 miles from Flamingo Campground. Elevation changes marked in inches takes you from wet to dry. Very buggy. Winter months best.

Getting there was great! But canoeing the open water back to Flamingo was very hard. We were going against the wind and it took us almost 12 hours straight.

The campsite was great during the day, but at night and in the morning, the noseeums were out of control. To get away from them, we would take the boats out onto the water.

There are sharks in the water... we had them bumping into our canoes.

This campsite felt wild and untamed. It was great, but maybe with a more experienced canoeing group and in a different season it would have been better.