The structure, known as a "chickee" hut, is exempt from Florida Building Codes when it is built by members of the Miccosukee or Seminole tribes of Florida. Vince LaPorta, director of the Venice ...

Spencer built a chickee hut on stilts in the waters off Anclote Key. When Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials asked why he would do that without bothering to apply for permits ...

Spencer is constructing a chickee hut without state or federal permits ... "Although chickees constructed by the Seminole Tribe of Florida … may be exempt from requirements of the Florida ...

O.B. Osceola sat under the shade of thousands of cabbage palm leaves thatched into a roof over the dock at the Cove Inn on Naples Bay. The beams supporting the roof still smelled of freshly cut pine.

They are as much a part of South Florida life as palm trees and sandy beaches – and almost as native. Tiki huts, those ingenous Native American creations, conjure images of sipping pina coladas ...

Around 2003, South Florida Free Beaches (SFFB) — a group that made Haulover a nude beach in 1991 — erected three chickee huts at the beach's entrance. Since then, Vance — the leader of ...

Tucked away in some of Florida’s wildest spaces are cozy cabins ... Reservation in one of the barebones Billie Swamp Safari chickee huts. The Seminoles developed the design—an elevated ...

LADY LAKE, FL, UNITED STATES, April 18, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- As the summer season approaches, Native American Tiki Palm Huts of Florida is excited to reintroduce their traditional tiki huts and ...

“Can you believe that?” said Al Dinsmore, 56, a University of Florida marine lab specialist and Harley rider. “The county wants to make ceremonial chickee huts pass county code.” ...