Coopertown Airboats

As you travel down the US, 11 miles west of the Florida Turnpike, through the heart of the Everglades, you come to a small town called Coopertown.

Coopertown, is the home to a population of 8 human residents, a restaurant known for its down-home style frog legs and gator tail, an educational centre and the entry point to guided airboat tours into the Florida Everglades abroad the fleet of Coopertown airboats.

The professional airboat guides take place on a personalized, educational airboat tour covering approximately 9 miles of the river. The boat drives into the vast open sawgrass where you will see the Everglades (known as the ‘River of Grass’) and into the Hardwood Hammock and the Everglades Natiional Park, where you will get to see the alligator holes and glades wildlife. See the purple Gallanule voted the most colourful bird in Florida and the endangered Everglade Snail Kite as well as herons, grackles, turtles, raccoons and other Everglades residents.

After the fascinating tour, relax and enjoy the taste of the Everglade style restaurant and bar and you can also meet the residents of Coopertown.

You can learn about the fascinating area and take a closer look at the creatures in the Coopertown Alligator Exhibit!

Coopertown Airboats offers a variety of speciality and private tours including sunset, night and extreme sports airboat rides. The two most popular tours are:

The One Hour ‘Taster’ airboat tour

This introductory airboat tour gives you a taste of what the Everglades have to offer. The tour ventures 25 miles out into the open sawgrass of the Everglades National Park where you will see alligators, unique birds, and other wildlife native to the Everglades. You will also visit a couple of the small islands on this tour

The Two Hour ‘Adventure’ airboat tour:

The two hour tour brings you further into the Everglades National Park Expansion Lands. On this adventurous group or private airboat tour you will travel much deeper into the Everglades National Park where you will see the Duck Club built in the 1950s by the Miami Rod and Gun Club which they used as hunting camp and is now used for a variety of film productions and photo shoots. You will also observe a wider variety of the flora and fauna that the deep Everglades offer.