Editors' picks across 8categories — the dock with the deepest channel, the winery with the view, the restaurant with the right wine list, the trail nobody's on at sunrise.
An open-air tiki bar and restaurant at Roland Martin Marina, right on the lake — burgers, sandwiches, and seafood, popular with anglers and bikers off the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail.
Visit ↗A Cuban cafe on Sugarland Highway in Clewiston — Cuban sandwiches, medianoches, and breakfast at bargain prices.
A seafood restaurant on the Kissimmee River just above where it empties into Lake Okeechobee's north shore, run by a family fish company — oysters are the specialty, alongside catfish and shrimp caught locally.
A 110-mile loop circling the entire lake atop the 35-foot Herbert Hoover Dike, more than half of it paved — fully reopened in 2023 after the dike's $1.5 billion rehabilitation. Fourteen camping areas line the route, and the exposed, shadeless dike draws serious birdwatchers for cranes, spoonbills, and kites.
Visit ↗One of the lake's largest marinas, named for the bass-fishing broadcaster — an 8-lane boat ramp, dockage, guided fishing trips, a motel, and Scotty's Tiki Bar, on the Clewiston canal that opens onto the lake through a lock.
Visit ↗A marina on US-27 in Clewiston — fuel, boat launching, dockage, and rentals.
A well-maintained public boat ramp on the lake's northwest shore, with six lanes, four docks, and ample trailer parking — open 24 hours, no fuel on site.
A 143-mile earthen levee the Army Corps of Engineers built between 1932 and 1938, after hurricane storm surges in 1926 and 1928 killed more than 2,500 people around the lake's unprotected shore. Completed an 18-year, $1.5 billion structural rehabilitation in January 2023.
Visit ↗The oldest lodging on Lake Okeechobee — built in 1926, destroyed by fire in 1937, and rebuilt in reinforced concrete by U.S. Sugar in 1938. The 57-room Neo-Classical Revival hotel has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991.
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