Like many quirky, homegrown traditions, swamp buggy racing started out small. In the early 1940s, about a dozen hunters in Naples, Florida, who used the strange, jeeplike vehicles to navigate the ...

You've heard of dune buggies for blasting dunes and rock buggies for wheeling on rocks, but what is purpose-built for the swamps of Naples, Florida? Nope, not airboats (good guess though)—it's swamp ...

EAST NAPLES, Fla. — Swamp buggy races are back. The “Mile O’ Mud” track at Florida Sports Park on 8520 Rattlesnake Hammock Road will play host to The World Famous Swamp Buggy Races on Saturday and ...

For father and son, Roger and Scotty McCandless, swamp buggy racing in Naples, Florida, is a family tradition. Local ...

This December, the Swamp Buggy Fall Classic will have a different name to it, and more significance for a closely-knit community. The Terry Langford Memorial Fall Classic is set for this weekend at ...

Swamp buggy racing just might be the most Florida thing to come out of Florida. Three times each year in Naples, goggled drivers whiz down a flooded dirt track—officially christened the "Mile O’ ...

The upcoming swamp buggy races have been canceled due to damage at Florida Sports Park from Hurricane Irma. The board of directors for Swamp Buggy, Inc., announced the cancelation on the event’s ...

Swamp buggy fans will have to wait a bit longer to celebrate the start of the 72nd racing season. The season opener, scheduled for Sunday, has been postponed due to flooding at Florida Sports Park in ...

I'd never heard of a swamp buggy before but when I jumped aboard the rugged vehicle in Fort Lauderdale's Billy Swamp Safari, I discovered a whole new aspect of swamp life. Outfitted with a canopy top ...

"It's loud, fast, and mixes easily with water," is how the author described this particular swamp buggy back in the June 1985 issue ofFour Wheeler, and we couldn't agree more. For the uninitiated, ...

“Take these spectral bleachers and fill the air over them with Coppertone and kettle-corn perfume and Skynard and rebel flags snapping,” writes the Southern author Padgett Powell in the introduction ...