Okefenokee Swamp

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The Okefenokee Swamp covers more than 700 square miles of southeast Georgia and northwest Florida. American Indians named the swamp "land of the trembling earth."

Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.

Okefenokee Swamp

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