27, you’d clear the city limits in a minute or two. It soars over the Caloosahatchee River before sweeping in for a gentle landing in downtown Moore Haven, a town of about 1,700 on the southwest shore of Lake Okeechobee and where the Art in the Park Festival is held in January. One of the first things you’ll notice when driving into Glades County from Clewiston is the spectacular Mamie Langdale Memorial Bridge. Glades County happens to do it better than nearly anyplace else. Smith’s classic Florida novel, A Land Remembered. There are only a handful of places in Florida that combine the ethereal beauty of a Highwaymen painting with the scrubland scenes of Patrick D. While that alone should be enough to prompt a fishing trip, when you add the county’s hammocks and sloughs and the Seminole reservation and burial mounds and then include far-reaching plains stitched together by beautiful country roads, you get the idea Glades County is a perfect destination for a spur-of-the-moment road trip or, even better, an extended visit. Although you can’t tell without checking an aerial map, Glades County encompasses about 250 square miles of Lake Okeechobee – about one-third of the entire lake.
