Sarasota Jungle Gardens

Here is an opportunity to enjoy a stroll along a trail that wanders through an ever-changing landscape of cool, under-story jungle growth and around open pond shorelines. As one meanders through Sarasota Jungle Gardens, a magnificent and wildy overgrown paradise, one wonders how such an abundance began.

Originally, the land was a swampy banana grove listed in the city records as "an impenetrable swamp". A local newspaperman, David Breed Lindsay, purchased these 10 lush acres in the early 1930's with plans to develop the virgin subtropical jungle into a botanical garden.