Ochopee Post Office

The smallest working post office in the United States — 61.3 square feet of postal service wedged into a former irrigation-pipe shed off the J.T. Gaunt Company tomato farm. Postmaster Sidney Brown pressed the shack into duty in 1953 after a night fire leveled Ochopee's general store and the post office inside it. Seventy-plus years later the same 7-by-8 clapboard box is still handling mail for a three-county stretch of the Everglades, including Seminole and Miccosukee households out in the sawgrass. Kill the engine, walk up to the Dutch door, and you're in and out in a minute — pull off well onto the shoulder, the gravel lot is tight.

What to order

Grab a postcard from the rack inside and have the clerk hand-cancel it with the coveted Ochopee postmark — that's the whole reason stamp collectors and tour buses stop here.

Hours

Mon–Fri 8a–10a · Sat 10a–11:30a · closed Sun