'Chickee' hut gets approval. SHELBY WEBB. When it comes to tiki-type huts, the hands that build them can make the difference between a city violation and a no-hassle construction job.

TARPON SPRINGS — Last fall, Indian Rocks architect Stephen J. Spencer built a chickee hut on stilts in the waters off Anclote Key. When Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials ...

Spend the night on the remote Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in one of the barebones Billie Swamp Safari chickee huts. The Seminoles ... an hour-long, after-dark swamp buggy tour through the ...

Alcaraz learned his skill from the Seminole tribe, which calls the structure a Chickee hut, meaning house ... run downstairs to the full bath in the dark. Sweeney, who owns Palm Tree Mart and ...

And it was scattered in a dark drizzle under Manatee Park’s chickee when she inspected it this month after volunteer Alice Thrower told her it was looking odd. Above the frass, ...

A handful of workers marked out with tape where they will install an outdoor bar to complete the hut. “It never gets easier,” Osceola, 83, said of what will be the last chickee hut he builds ...

The Seminoles recently built a chickee hut behind the Bonita Springs Historical Society’s building on Old 41. The structure will be used for workshops and lectures, but it is also forging this ...

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 ...

Dotted throughout the Everglades are unique camping spots called chickee huts — wooden platforms with railings and a thatched roof that sits in the middle of the water. Interestingly ...

Are you sure you even need a tent? If chickee huts (open-walled, palm-roofed shelters) are available, that may be all you need. Or, maybe just a mosquito-net shelter to put inside the chickee hut.

Chickee cross beams measure about 16 inches in diameter and the chickee’s poles, or legs, are about 10 inches across. The cypress is untreated but will last “indefinitely,” Osceola said.