Everglades Seafood Festival

From Everglades Seafood Festival Website:

The Festival takes place in front of City Hall on the Circle, 102 Copeland Avenue, Everglades City, FL,

Seafood lovers mark their calendars for the annual Everglades Seafood Festival, scheduled for the weekend of Feb. 9, 10, 11, 2018 in Everglades City, gateway to the Ten Thousand Islands.

This free event packs em in for fresh seafood, country music, carnival rides, crafts booths with an estimated 50,000 people expected to attend to pack this small town (population 500) the three-day event.


Everglades City, Floridas stone crab capital, is an off-the-beaten-track pocket of Old Florida with many original buildings and a rich history steeped in the lore of pirates and smugglers, murder and mayhem, and some of the best fishing and freshest seafood anywhere in the state of Florida.

The old-fashioned neo-classical City Hall once served as Collier Countys main courthouse until the countys population shifted north to nouveau Naples, 40 miles away. Everglades City, settled in the 1880s, has retained its small-town charm, if not its legendary character and characters.

The towns first Seafood Festival was held in 1970 to raise money for playground equipment, and that charitable tradition is still alive and well with proceeds from the festival going to local causes and college scholarships for local students.

In addition to shiploads of fresh seafood served up by local fishermen and restaurants, this years festival will feature 100 arts and crafts booths, a carnival and continuous country music and bluegrass throughout the weekend.