At first, the idea of carving a highway through the Everglades ran into opposition — but not for what you'd think.

Alligator Alley is an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 75 that crosses the Florida Everglades. Originally a dangerous two-lane road, it was expanded and made safer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ...

Officially, it's just a stretch of Interstate 75, which runs some 1,800 miles from the Miami area to the Canadian border. But don't tell that to the people who have made an idyllic — or adventurous, ...

Editor's note: This story was first published in August 2019 in Eliot Kleinberg's Florida Time column. Officially, it's just a stretch of Interstate 75, which runs some 1,800 miles from the Miami area ...