Landmark hotel in Everglades now pile of rubble

[Keith W]

"The hotel -- never exactly The Ritz in its best days -- has been in ruins since back-to-back guttings by hurricanes in 2005.

But watching the crumbling walls fall during the last few weeks nonetheless saddened park regulars. The humble lodge, the last stop 38 miles down the park's main road, offered things found nowhere else in the park: bed, bath and air-conditioned escape from relentless mosquitoes."

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