CHOKOLOSKEE, Fla. — The Bloody Watson Tour recounts the outlaws of the Everglades at the turn of the 20th Century.

The meet-up point is right out of the Historic Smallwood Store in Chokoloskee.

What You Need To Know

  • Bloody Watson Tour

  • Meetup at Historic Smallwood story in Chokoloskee 

  • 10 mile trek up the Chatham River to ruins of Edgar Watson homestead

  • Local and a locally trained guides traverse island dotted waters

Load up for a 10-mile boat ride into Everglades National Park for a look at the ruins of Edgar Watson’s home and farm.

Edgar Watson was an outlaw laying low in the Everglades, growing sugar cane.

Trouble ensued when laborers began to disappear on pay day.

Locals attributed the disappearances to the “Watson Payday.”

You can step where Watson worked processing sugar cane.

And find out about the shootout at the Historic Smallwood Store in Chokoloskee.

Fun point—you may be loading up and disembarking at the very spot Watson met his demise.