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Sun Retreats Dunedin

18 RV Sites, 10 Cottages, 9 Hotel Rooms

Sun Retreats Dunedin in Dunedin, FL, offers 18 full-hookup pull-through RV sites plus 19 cottages and hotel rooms, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Every site is a pull-through carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi and a picnic table — nothing needs unhitching. If you booked here before, note the name change: Dunedin RV Resort is now Sun Retreats Dunedin. The resort is open all year, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, propane fills, and a dump station. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. The amenity list is resort-grade: an outdoor pool, a fitness center, a recreation center, a clubhouse, a library, sport courts, pickleball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, corn hole, a playground, and a beach, with planned activities running through the season. Dunedin sits in a shaded tree grove in Pinellas County, a short drive from the Gulf, with a state park nearby and Honeymoon Island and the Pinellas Trail close at hand. Rates for sites, cottages, and rooms are on the booking page. Eighteen pull-throughs on the Gulf Coast means winter season books out well ahead.

from $92/night

Morningside RV Estates

392 RV Sites

Morningside RV Estates in Dade City, Florida, is a gated 55-plus community with 392 full-hookup RV sites, an indoor pool, a fitness center, and a clubhouse, carrying 30 and 50-amp service for rigs to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. At 392 sites this is one of the largest properties in the worklist, with basic and premium back-in categories and personal mailboxes for long-term residents. Three hundred ninety-two back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 60 feet, in basic and premium categories. Personal mailboxes, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, and showers support the long-term and seasonal residencies that fill the community, and WiFi reaches the property. A gated entrance controls access. One policy to check before booking: restricted dog breeds are not permitted, including but not limited to Dobermans, Staffordshire Terriers, Huskies, Rottweilers, Chows, Akitas, Presa Canario, German Shepherds, and bulldog breeds. The amenity set is built for an active winter community. An indoor pool covers swimming year-round regardless of weather, with a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, craft room, and library for the social calendar. Shuffleboard, billiards, horseshoes, volleyball, walking trails, hiking, biking, and a dog park round it out, with planned activities through the season and a golf course nearby. Dade City sits in Pasco County on US-301 between Tampa, 37 miles south, and Ocala, 55 miles north — interior Florida hill country rather than the coastal resort corridor. The Withlacoochee River, Hillsborough River State Park, and the town's antique district are all close. Winter is peak. Book well ahead for January through March.

from $70/night

Arbor Terrace Sun RV Communities

91 RV Sites, 3 Cottages

Arbor Terrace in Bradenton, Florida, offers 91 full-hookup RV sites and three cottages six miles from the Gulf, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. Super, premium, and cozy full-hookup categories join a pool, fitness center, clubhouse, and pickleball courts in this all-ages community. Ninety-one sites run in cozy, premium, and super full-hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with picnic tables. The three tiers are sized rather than dressed up — cozy for a smaller rig, super for a larger one — which makes matching site to budget straightforward. Three cottages round out the lodging. A laundry, restrooms, showers, and on-site dining handle the practical side. The resort address is 405 57th Avenue West. An outdoor pool anchors daily recreation, with a fitness center, clubhouse, game room, and pavilion besides. Pickleball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, biking, picnicking, a beach, and a dog park fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season and a state park nearby. Pets are welcome. The all-ages designation is worth noting — many Manatee County communities are 55-plus, and this one is not, which broadens who it suits. The Gulf beaches at Anna Maria Island and Longboat Key are six miles west, with Sarasota just south. Winter is decisively the season on Florida's Gulf Coast. January through March fills with snowbirds. Book well ahead for those months, with easier availability through the summer.

from $54/night

Sun Outdoors Sarasota

215 RV Sites, 94 Cottages

Sun Outdoors Sarasota offers 215 full-hookup RV sites and 94 cottages on Florida's Gulf Coast, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet behind a gated entrance. Cozy through elite categories join a mega water slide, splash pad, hot tub, fitness complex, and more than 150 scheduled activities, open all year. Two hundred fifteen sites span cozy, deluxe, deluxe pull-through, elite, and premium full hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with picnic tables. The five-tier structure makes matching site to budget straightforward. Ninety-four cottages round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, and restrooms handle the practical side. The property was formerly Sun N Fun RV Resort. The activity density is the claim and the amenity set backs it. Indoor and outdoor pools, a mega water slide, splash pad, hot tub, and sauna anchor the water side, with a fitness complex, art studio, craft room, mini-golf, disc golf course, and arcade besides. Pickleball, tennis, bocce ball, shuffleboard, volleyball, horseshoes, and billiards fill the courts, with a poolside bar and grill, on-site dining, live music, and a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. Sarasota's resort corridor, Gulf beaches, and wineries are all close, with a golf course nearby. Winter is decisively the season on the Gulf Coast. Book well ahead for January through March.

from $47/night

Timberline Glamping at Sarasota

4 Glamping Sites

Within Oscar Scherer State Park in Osprey, Florida—on the Sarasota County coast where the scrub-oak landscape, the South Creek paddling corridor, and Lake Osprey's warm-water swimming create the specific habitat mosaic that scrub-jays, gopher tortoises, and the bird diversity of a Florida state park's managed natural environment support in one of the most ecologically significant preserves on the Suncoast—Timberline Glamping at Sarasota provides four luxury safari tent accommodations on 10 acres at the edge of Oscar Scherer's trail network, combining the immersive park experience of a state park stay with the interior comfort of a 320-square-foot furnished tent that includes a king or queen bed configuration, air conditioning, a Keurig coffee maker, and a mini-refrigerator. Rates starting at $152 per night reflect the specific combination of park access and furnished comfort that the property provides in a market where Sarasota hotel rooms at comparable rates offer less natural experience and considerably less square footage of outdoor living. Four safari tents—available in Deluxe configuration (king bed and two sets of bunk beds) and Double configuration (two queen beds)—accommodate single couples, families, and the range of group compositions that a 320-square-foot luxury tent can serve across the Sarasota glamping market. Interior furnishings include floor rugs, multiple lamps, high-quality bed linens, comfortable seating, heating and air conditioning units, electrical outlets for device charging, and the Keurig coffee setup with Timberline-branded mugs that makes morning coffee in a tent genuinely pleasant rather than an expedition logistics problem. Each tent's gravel-base exterior features two hammocks for tree-hung lounging, a charcoal grill with cooking grate, a wood fire pit, a picnic table, and string lights that create the warm evening ambiance that fire pit camping and glamping guests specifically seek. The pet-friendly policy—with an additional fee for furry companions—extends the welcome to the dogs and cats that Sarasota area travelers bring. Oscar Scherer State Park's ecology provides the glamping experience's natural programming. Lake Osprey—warm enough for swimming through the Florida season—provides open-water swimming and fishing access from the park's beach area, with largemouth bass and panfish in the lake's vegetation-lined shallows. South Creek, winding through the park's interior, offers kayak and canoe access (rentals available through the park) through a paddling corridor that the park's scrub-oak forest and freshwater marsh flank with the specific ecological transition that makes Oscar Scherer's natural character distinctive among Sarasota County's preserved areas. Fifteen-plus miles of multi-use trails through the park's pine flatwoods, scrub habitat, and marsh edges provide the hiking and biking access to Oscar Scherer's wildlife—Florida scrub-jays (a threatened species whose oak scrub habitat Oscar Scherer specifically protects), gopher tortoises, sandhill cranes, and the year-round diversity of the Sarasota County bird community. The park's scrub-jay population is accessible for wildlife photography along the scrub-edge trails with a consistency that serious bird photographers travel specifically for. Timberline Glamping at Sarasota operates year-round in Florida's mild Suncoast climate. The park's spring wildflower season, summer lake swimming, and fall bird migration create distinct natural seasons within a year-round operating environment. The Sarasota cultural infrastructure—the Ringling Museum, Sarasota Opera, Siesta Key Beach (routinely ranked among the finest beaches in the United States)—provides the day-trip programming from a glamping base that the park's natural setting complements rather than competes with. Reserve your safari tent, pack a paddling outfit for South Creek, and let Oscar Scherer State Park's scrub and creek ecology deliver what Florida glamping looks like when the nature experience is the point.

from $185 $161/night

ThemeWorld

ThemeWorld in Davenport, FL, offers full-hookup RV sites carrying water, sewer, and electric, with site-delivered WiFi and a picnic table at each site. Both pull-thru and back-in layouts are available. If you booked here before, note the name change: ThemeWorld RV Resort is now simply ThemeWorld. The grounds are gated and open all year, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, propane fills, and a clubhouse. Contact the community for site count, amp service, and maximum rig length, since those specifics aren't published here. An outdoor pool, a fitness center, a pavilion, a playground, sport courts, basketball, pickleball, and corn hole fill the grounds, with hot air ballooning and golf nearby. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. Davenport sits less than 30 minutes from Walt Disney World's front gates in the heart of Florida's I-4 corridor, with the beaches an easy drive either direction. Rates and availability are on the booking page. Theme park season runs long here, so reserve ahead and call to confirm your rig's fit.

from $45/night

Sun Retreats Orlando Champions Gate

162 RV Sites, 6 Cottages

Sun Retreats Orlando ChampionsGate in Davenport, FL, offers 162 full-hookup RV sites and 6 cottages, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Sites come in five categories — standard full-hookup, standard grass back-in, paver back-in, paver pull-thru, and super pull-thru — all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi and a picnic table. The paver sites are the ones to request. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a clubhouse, and a community fire pit cover the essentials, with cottages for guests without a rig. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, a fitness center, basketball, shuffleboard, a playground, and planned activities fill the grounds, with golf, the beach, hot air ballooning, and wine tasting nearby. Davenport sits six miles from Walt Disney World — about as close as a full-service RV resort gets in the Orlando corridor, which makes this the natural base for a theme park trip in your own rig. Rates for sites and cottages are on the booking page. Peak park season books months ahead, and super pull-thrus go first.

from $49/night

Myakka River RV Resort

24 RV Sites, 2 Tent Sites, 21 Park Models

Myakka River RV Resort in North Port, FL, offers 24 full-hookup RV sites, 21 park models, and 2 tent sites, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 66 feet. Sites come in three categories — 30/50-amp deluxe waterfront, 30/50-amp preserve, and 30/50-amp pull-thru preserve — all carrying water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with a picnic table. The resort is rated big rig friendly and the 66-foot maximum takes long coaches. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a clubhouse, a pavilion, propane fills and exchange, a dump station, and on-site recycling round it out. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, walking trails, horseshoes, live music, and boat rentals fill the calendar, with kayaking, fishing, biking, hiking, and birding along the river. Golf and the Gulf beaches are nearby. The resort sits directly on the Myakka River in Sarasota County, where the blackwater flow through flatwood prairie, cypress swamp, and tropical hammock makes this the most wildlife-rich river corridor in southwest Florida. Rates for sites and park models are on the booking page. Deluxe waterfront sites are limited and book earliest for the winter season.

from $50/night

Cross Creek RV Resort

17 RV Sites

Cross Creek RV Resort in Arcadia, Florida, offers 17 RV sites on the Peace River, with cable TV and rigs accepted to 75 feet, open all year behind a gated entrance. An RV Super Site category joins a standard back-in tier, with an outdoor pool, hot tub, fitness center, clubhouse, craft room, library, and bar. Seventeen back-in sites run in RV Super Site and standard back-in categories, carrying cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 75 feet. Confirm hookups and amp service with the resort for your rig when you book. Seventy-five feet accommodates a long coach with a tow — generous for a property this size, and the Super Site category gives the longest rigs a proper home. A laundry handles the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor daily recreation, with a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, craft room, library, and bar besides. Sports courts, tennis, pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, billiards, horseshoes, a lake, pond, beach, dog park, and hiking fill the rest, with boating, canoeing, kayaking, water sports, fishing, live music, and planned activities through the season. A golf course is nearby. That amenity list at 17 sites is genuinely remarkable, and it shows in the resort's Good Sam 10/10/10 rating — a perfect score achieved by only six resorts in all of Florida. The property is owned by a small South Florida company rather than a national chain, and the attention shows. DeSoto County's ranch and citrus country puts the Peace River, Arcadia's antique district, and the Gulf beaches within reach. Winter is decisively the season. Book well ahead for January through March.

from $62/night

Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande

163 RV Sites

Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande in Placida, FL, offers 163 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 75 feet. Sites come in two straightforward categories, water sites and non-water sites, both carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi. At 75 feet the sites take long coaches. The grounds are gated, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a clubhouse, a library, golf cart rentals, and visiting food trucks. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, a hot tub, a spa, a fitness center, sport courts, pickleball, shuffleboard, billiards, a community fire pit, a lake, and walking trails fill the grounds, with access to the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail from the property. Fishing, swimming, and planned activities round it out, and the beach, golf, boating, a water park, and a state park are all nearby. Placida sits on the Charlotte Harbor coast between Cape Haze and the Boca Grande Causeway, in one of the least overdeveloped stretches of the southwest Florida coastline. Rates for water and non-water sites are on the booking page. Water sites are the premium spots and book first.

from $90/night

Joy Bamboo Forest Farm

Joy Bamboo Forest Farm in Sebring, Florida, is a distinctive camping experience in Highlands County surrounded by the lush tropical character of Asper bamboo — a unique Florida farm campground with full-hookup RV sites and the small, intimate atmosphere of a working farm in the Lake Placid and Sebring lake country where the bamboo grove's visual density and its tropical microclimate give the campground an aesthetic identity unlike any other Florida camping destination in the subtropical inland lake region. Sebring's Highlands County position on US-27 south of Lake Wales gives the farm its specific south-central Florida character of an agricultural county known for the Sebring International Raceway, the citrus groves, and the most intact subtropical hardwood hammock landscape in the Florida Highlands' lake district between the Kissimmee Prairie and the Lake Okeechobee watershed. Full-hookup RV sites and small-scale farm campground accommodations in the Asper bamboo grove give Joy Bamboo Forest Farm the distinctive tropical farm camping character of a Highlands County property whose bamboo canopy and the working farm setting give guests the specific natural immersion that the conventional Florida campground's developed landscape does not provide — the bamboo grove's density and the farm's intimate scale give the Sebring campground the curated natural atmosphere of a property that the owner's specific agricultural and horticultural investment in the Asper bamboo has created as a genuinely distinctive camping environment. Pets are welcome. Highlands Hammock State Park, five miles northwest of Sebring on CR-634 in Highlands County, is one of Florida's oldest and most biologically significant state parks — a 9,000-acre old-growth subtropical hardwood hammock, cypress swamp, and pine flatwoods complex that Governor Doyle Carlton dedicated in 1931 as one of Florida's original four state parks. The park's ancient cypress trees (estimated at 1,000 years in the oldest specimens), the 8-mile tram tour through the swamp, and the Spanish moss-draped live oak hammock canopy give Highlands Hammock the specific character of an old-growth Florida swamp forest that the 90 years of state protection have preserved in a landscape where most comparable old-growth hammock has been cleared. Sebring International Raceway, two miles east of downtown Sebring on US-98 in Highlands County, hosts the 12 Hours of Sebring — one of the world's oldest and most prestigious endurance automobile races, held annually in March as the first round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 12 Hours' history since 1952, the challenging airfield course, and the international manufacturer entries from Porsche, Ferrari, Corvette, and Acura give Sebring the specific motorsports heritage of an endurance racing event that only Le Mans exceeds in age and prestige in the global sports car racing calendar. Joy Bamboo Forest Farm serves guests year-round in Highlands County's subtropical Florida climate, where the mild winters from November through March sustain the snowbird and Florida lake country visitor market and the spring and summer months give the bamboo grove's tropical character its most lush and visually dramatic seasonal presence. Lake Placid, 10 miles south of Sebring on US-27 in Highlands County, is the "Caladium Capital of the World" — the source of 95 percent of the caladium bulbs sold in the United States, giving the Peace River watershed's lake community its specific agricultural heritage and the Caladium Festival's late July celebration of the ornamental plant industry. Reserve sites ahead for the 12 Hours of Sebring race week and the winter snowbird season.

Shell Creek Sun RV Communities

154 RV Sites, 1 Cottage

Shell Creek in Punta Gorda, Florida, is a 55-plus community offering 154 full-hookup RV sites and a cottage with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet, open all year. A 24-slip marina, outdoor pool, hot tub, and fitness center sit on the banks of Shell Creek in Charlotte County. One hundred fifty-four standard full-hookup back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with picnic tables. The sites are spacious, and the 30- and 50-amp service covers most rigs comfortably. A cottage rounds out the lodging. A laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and recycling handle the practical side. The marina is the distinguishing amenity — 24 slips giving direct waterway access to the Peace River and Charlotte Harbor beyond. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor daily recreation, with a fitness center, recreation center, game room, and on-site dining besides. Pickleball, shuffleboard, billiards, horseshoes, a beach, and a dog park fill the grounds, with boating, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and water sports from the creek. Pets are welcome. Shell Creek's freshwater-to-brackish transition supports genuinely varied fishing, and Charlotte Harbor is among the most productive estuaries on the Gulf Coast. Winter is decisively the season for Florida's 55-plus communities. Book well ahead for January through March, when snowbird demand fills the Charlotte County corridor.

from $55/night