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Twenty-five minutes northwest of Fort Lauderdale, the highway gives way to a sea of sawgrass. This is Sawgrass Recreation Park, an airboat outpost pressed against a Water Conservation Area, one of the diked, leveed remnants of the historic Everglades that still connects into Everglades National Park to the south. Visitors come in hopes of seeing alligators and experiencing one of the country’s mos...