Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Question: What in Florida is known as the River of Grass?

Answer: The Everglades

The Everglades is known as the River of Grass—a nickname popularized by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in her 1947 book, The Everglades: River of Grass, to describe the slow-moving, shallow sheet flow of water through the sawgrass marshes.