See Hiking Trails for trail descriptions. Located 38 miles from the main entrance at the park's southern end, Flamingo Visitor Center offers natural history exhibits and information on Flamingo's overnight accommodations, a swimming pool, restaurant, gift shop, marina, store, sight-seeing cruises, tram tours, charter fishing, and boat and bicycle rentals. Some services are limited during the off-season. In addition, the Gulf Coast Ranger Station at Everglades City, located at the west entrance, has maps, information, boat tours, canoe rentals, and displays of shore and marine life. Shark Valley Information Center, at the northern part of the Shark Valley nature trail, offers sight-seeing trams, bicycle rentals, and a book shop.
First aid is available from park rangers and at the park's ranger stations.
Lodging and Dining For lodging information, click here . Laundry and Showers Cold showers are available at the Flamingo Campground. Laundry facilities are available at Flamingo Lodge. Marinas and Boat Launching Ramps Flamingo Marina, open year-round, can accommodate more than 50 boats, some wit helectric and water hookups. Boat launching ramps are available in Flamingo and Little Blackwater Sound on Key Largo, West Lake, and Paurotis Pond, and along the main park road.