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’ ...

Racing swamp buggies is deeply rooted in the history of Naples and the surrounding area, including the Everglades. But what are swamp buggies and how did the tradition begin? As one might imagine, ...

Dan Greenling was the driver to beat in the 2018-19 swamp buggy racing season, and nobody could. Greenling’s pro-modified buggy Roll On lost just once last season – but only because of a mechanical ...

When Eddie Chesser won the Swamp Buggy Races Fall Classic in December, it ended a long drought for the legendary driver. Chesser owns the record in the Naples original sport of swamp buggy racing with ...

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 ...

NAPLES, Fla. – The second race of the swamp buggy season is ready to make some noise at the Florida Sports Park for the Budweiser Winter Classic, just like they’ve been doing three times a year for ...

When the state you live in is covered with mass quantities of water, you make the best of it. With that said, a long time ago, Floridians who wanted to explore (and hunt) the soggy backcountry devised ...

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 ...

When Eddie Chesser goes for his 11th Budweiser Cup in the Swamp Buggy Winter Series on Sunday at Florida Sports Park in Naples, he'll have his father Lonnie's ashes with him. "He'll be right with me," ...