Clewiston and the U.S. Sugar mill
U.S. Sugar mill, Clewiston, FL
Ambrosia's mill is a clear match for Clewiston, America's Sweetest Town, where U.S. Sugar's stacks rise over the cane and the 1938 Clewiston Inn still serves dinner.
Region
Ambrosia
Based on The sugar belt around Lake Okeechobee. Inland farm country in the middle of the state. Ambrosia's sugar refinery and cane fields point squarely at Clewiston and the towns around Lake Okeechobee.
Places in Ambrosia
Cane fields, a refinery and roads that go straight for miles.
Cane fields and the burning season
Sugar cane country, Belle Glade and Pahokee, FL
The burning cane field in Trailer 2 is the Everglades Agricultural Area south of Lake Okeechobee: 400,000 acres of cane around Belle Glade and Pahokee, on fire from October to spring.
Lake Okeechobee: the big inland lake
Lake Okeechobee, Okeechobee, FL
Fans matched Leonida's big inland lake to Lake Okeechobee: 730 square miles of water you cannot see from the road, ringed by the Herbert Hoover Dike and a 110-mile trail on top of it.
Cal's place: the backwoods of Hendry County
Rural Glades and Hendry County, LaBelle, FL
Cal Hampton's mobile home in the trees has no single real address; the country it belongs to is Hendry County: LaBelle, the Caloosahatchee and the sand roads between ranches.
Cattle country around Okeechobee
Okeechobee, Okeechobee, FL
A travel idea for Ambrosia's ranch side: Okeechobee, the cattle town on the lake's north shore, with a working livestock auction, a rodeo and the dark-sky prairie of Kissimmee Prairie Preserve.
Trips through Ambrosia
Springs and forest: the Mount Kalaga loop
Two days through Florida's interior: glass-bottom boats at Silver Springs, the Ocala pine forest, fish camps on Lake George, a swim at Rainbow Springs, then south through cattle country and cane fields to Clewiston.