Driver Tyler Johns drives his swamp buggy 'Top Gun' during the Budweiser Spring Classic at the Florida Sports Park Saturday, April 9, 2016 in East Naples. (Luke Franke/Staff) (Photo: Luke Franke) ...

Swamp buggy races are back in Southwest Florida. The outdoor event will provide weekend entertainment for people flocking from all over to watch them, bringing in some money to the region’s economy.

Sunday's Winter Classic swamp buggy event at the Florida Sports Park turned out to be a five-hour test of speed, of endurance, and of unmitigated resilience and courage.

Some of the buggies had a rough, homemade look to them, but Oates’ $35,000 creations are like Cadillacs for swamp cruising. The vehicles have power steering, automatic transmissions and stereos.

Naples, Fla., is home to the "swamp buggy" races, an Everglades tradition that dates back to 1949. Although airboats and cars have long since eliminated the need for swamp buggies, racing the ...

Racing swamp buggies is deeply rooted in the history of Naples and the surrounding area, including the Everglades. But what are swamp buggies and how did the tradition begin? As one might imagine ...

Like many quirky, homegrown traditions, swamp buggy racing started out small. In the early 1940s, about a dozen hunters in Naples, Florida, who used the strange, jeeplike vehicles to navigate the ...

Swamp-buggy races may look the same from the shore, but not from the driver's seat. In the heat of a race, drivers have to feel their way around the track through crowds of buggies and waves of spray.

Hunters, swamp buggy enthusiasts, politicians, Gladesmen and others are fighting to keep the federal government from giving a wilderness designation to the Big Cypress National Preserve outside of ...

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Swamp buggy users fear access to the Big Cypress will be lost It was set aside as a preserve to allow for things like swamp buggies, airboats, hunting and fishing, Adams said.