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Swamp Buggy Races: Winter Classic
Naples, FL · Sports
- When
- January 24, 2027
- Where
- Florida Sports Park, 8520 Rattlesnake Hammock Rd · Naples · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Naples' famously muddy motorsport, where modified buggies race and often submerge in a pit of Everglades muck at the Florida Sports Park. It has run for over 75 years and remains one of the odder, more beloved sporting traditions unique to Collier County.
The history within reach
- Swamp Buggy Races: Winter Classicsame spot
Naples' famously muddy motorsport, where modified buggies race and often submerge in a pit of Everglades muck at the Florida Sports Park.
- The swamp buggy races4.4 mi
Naples' own motorsport since 1949: homemade machines on tractor tires racing a flooded oval called the Mile O' Mud, in classes up to V8 rigs that hydroplane.
- Naples Pier7.2 mi
Built in 1888 as the town's front door, when the only way into Naples was by steamer and the pier was where everything and everyone landed.
- The Key Marco cat13 mi
Frank Cushing dug a waterlogged muck pond here and pulled out wooden masks, painted deer heads and a six-inch kneeling panther figure, objects that should have rotted a thousand years ago and survived only because the muck kept out oxygen.
A juried outdoor fine-art show staged in three separate weekends each winter along the Imperial River in downtown Bonita Springs, running January through March.