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Hidden Gems in Naples

Naples Florida is a beautiful place with many hidden gems that need to be discovered by the masses.

Here are some of the places that you want to visit in Naples, Florida.

Naples Botanical Garden – Naples Botanical Garden is a 170-acre world-class garden paradise that features the plants and cultures of the tropics and subtropics between the latitudes of 26 degrees North and 26 degrees South including Brazil, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and Florida.

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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary – Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a 13,000 acre Preserve. Visitors will find a gentle, pristine wilderness that dates back more than 500 years. A 2.25 mile boardwalk meanders through pine flatwoods, wet prairie, around a marsh and finally into the largest old growth Bald Cypress forest in North America.

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Clam Pass Park – Clam Pass boasts 35 acres of coastal habitat and preserves that habitat by providing beach access from a three-quarter-mile boardwalk to the sandy beach.

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Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve – The Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve represents one of the few remaining undisturbed mangrove estuaries in North America. Rookery Bay’s Environmental Learning Center is a state-of-the-art, air conditioned 16,500 square-foot facility with four research laboratories, classrooms, a 140-seat auditorium, and two story visitor center.

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Bird Gardens of Naples – The Bird Gardens of Naples is a organization whose sole concern is parrot welfare in captivity and conservation of wild parrots. We are an outreach and placement program which places into safe custody, parrots which are abandoned, abused, or in need of a home for any reason.

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CREW – Bird Rookery Swamp Trails – The Bird Rookery Swamp Trail offers 12 miles of hiking and biking trails, including an 1800-ft. boardwalk with wheelchair accessibility. Biking can be a challenge on the grassy/sandy trails, but quite rewarding. The maple-cypress swamp is home to alligators, otters, Florida panthers, bobcats, white-tailed deer and more.

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The Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center – The Museum was inspired by a local middle school project on the Holocaust. Its mission is “to teach the lessons of the Holocaust to inspire action against bigotry, hatred and violence.” Student group and private tour groups available by appointment.

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The Baker Museum – The Baker Museum is one of the foremost fine art museums in Southwest Florida. Emphasizing modern and contemporary art, the museum hosts several traveling exhibitions annually to complement installations of works from its permanent collections.

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Naples Depot Museum – Long hidden on the fringe of Florida’s Gulf coast and overlooked by developers until well into the 1880s, Naples’ catalyst for settlement finally arrived forty years later when two rival railroads rolled into town within ten days of each other.

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Gulfshore Playhouse – Gulfshore Playhouse is passionately devoted to creating high-quality professional theatre at affordable prices and diverse educational opportunities for our region. Producing a full season of plays ranging from venerated classics and Broadway hits to contemporary plays and world premieres.

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