Swamp buggy racing just might be the most Florida thing to come out of Florida. Three times each year in Naples, goggled drivers whiz down a flooded dirt track—officially christened the "Mile O’ ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Swamp Buggy Parade on Saturday kicked off the 71st season opener of swamp buggy races in Naples. The parade, from 10 a.m. to noon, proceeded south on U.S. 41 from Fleishmann Boulevard to Third ...

This December, the Swamp Buggy Fall Classic will have a different name to it, and more significance for a closely-knit community. The Terry Langford Memorial Fall Classic is set for this weekend at ...

“Take these spectral bleachers and fill the air over them with Coppertone and kettle-corn perfume and Skynard and rebel flags snapping,” writes the Southern author Padgett Powell in the introduction ...

An online fundraiser has identified the victims of a shooting that led to a rollover crash in the Rural Estates. The GoFundMe has identified the victims as Scott McCandless and girlfriend Amy Chesser, ...

When the state you live in is covered with mass quantities of water, you make the best of it. With that said, a long time ago, Floridians who wanted to explore (and hunt) the soggy backcountry devised ...

Following close competition last year and a long offseason, there’s excitement surrounding the Swamp Buggy Races as the Naples original sport enters its eighth decade. The swamp buggies enter their ...

When Eddie Chesser goes for his 11th Budweiser Cup in the Swamp Buggy Winter Series on Sunday at Florida Sports Park in Naples, he'll have his father Lonnie's ashes with him. "He'll be right with me," ...