Flamingo was once a fishing village at the very tip of the Florida peninsula accessible primarily by boat. It’s less remote now, but as the most distant outpost in Everglades National Park, it still has the feel of an off-the-beaten-track getaway.

Now visitors have a place to stay in Flamingo that is worthy of its location at the end of the road on Florida Bay in Everglades National Park. An impressive 24-room lodge with a bar and restaurant opened in the 2023-24 winter season.

Flamingo Lodge is unlike any other you’ve seen in a national park, or really anywhere else. It’s built out of repurposed shipping containers and is elevated 13 feet off the ground on stilts. This makes it resilient in the face of hurricanes, which destroyed the old lodge in 2005, but it also is a striking design t

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