The Big Picture, 'Human Landscapes in SW Florida'.

The Big Picture, 'Human Landscapes in SW Florida'.


A grid of undeveloped avenues west of Port Charlotte, Florida.


Once proposed as the 57,000 acre "Golden Gate Estates", this area was to be the largest subdivision in America in the 1960s. Many canals and roads were built, but the development eventually went bankrupt. Over the past 20 years or so, the land has been acquired by the state, and converted into the Picayune Strand State Forest.