Shark Valley

Shark Valley is a broad, shallow geological depression in Everglades National Park in far western Miami-Dade County, Florida, in the United States, near the Miami-Dade-Collier county line. Its terrain is oolitic limestone, either exposed or covered by marl, supporting a sawgrass prairie that floods in the rainy season but, unlike deeper parts of the Everglades, does not hold standing water year round because of its brief hydroperiod. Local Mikasuki speakers call such marshes Pa-Hay-Okee, meaning river of grass, and the area supports American alligators, ibis, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, raccoons, white-tailed deer and other wildlife. Shark Valley became part of Everglades National Park in 1947 and today offers a 15-mile loop trail and an observation tower built in 1964 as part of the National Park Service's Mission 66 program. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/