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Sun Resorts & Residences Ft. Myers Beach

262 RV Sites

Sun Resorts and Residences Fort Myers Beach in Florida offers 262 full-hookup RV sites on Estero Island, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. Premium and standard full-hookup categories join an outdoor pool, with the Gulf and Estero Bay minutes away. Two hundred sixty-two sites run in standard full hookup and premium full hookup categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV, sized to 45 feet. Two tiers keep booking straightforward. Restrooms and showers handle the practical side, and the amenity set is deliberately compact — the island is the draw here, not on-site programming. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with pickleball, biking, fishing, and swimming filling the rest. Pets are welcome. The address is 17340 San Carlos Boulevard, on Estero Island in Lee County. This is one of the most complete coastal resort environments on the Gulf Coast: warm Gulf water and white sand at the door, Sanibel's shelling beaches and Ding Darling refuge across the water, Lovers Key State Park just south, and the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve — Florida's first — sustaining the back-bay fishing and paddling. Times Square and the Fort Myers Beach pier are close for dining and nightlife. Winter is decisively the season on Florida's Gulf Coast, when snowbirds fill Lee County from January through March and Estero Island runs at capacity. Book well ahead for those months, with considerably easier availability through the summer.

from $39/night

Sun Resorts & Residences Sanibel Gateway

449 RV Sites

Sanibel Gateway in Fort Myers, Florida, is a 55-plus community offering 449 full-hookup premium back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. A golf driving range, outdoor pool, hot tub, fitness center, tennis, and pickleball courts serve one of the largest RV communities in Lee County. Four hundred forty-nine sites are premium back-in throughout, carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV, sized to 45 feet. A single premium category means every resident gets the same spec — no budget tier, no guesswork. A laundry, restrooms, showers, RV storage, boat storage, personal mailboxes, and recycling handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor daily recreation, with a golf driving range, fitness center, library, pavilion, and sports courts besides. Tennis, pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, billiards, volleyball, horseshoes, corn hole, biking, a lake, pond, and dog park fill the grounds, with fishing and swimming on site and boating nearby. Pets are welcome. Four hundred forty-nine sites is genuine scale, and the amenity list reflects it — this operates more like a residential resort community than a campground. Fort Myers bridges Lee County's inland suburbs with the barrier island beauty of Sanibel and Captiva just across the Caloosahatchee and Pine Island Sound, which puts world-class shelling beaches and Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge within a short drive. Winter is decisively the season in Southwest Florida's 55-plus communities. January through March fills with snowbirds. Book well ahead for those months, with far easier availability through the summer.

from $42/night

Sun Retreats Estero Bay

16 RV Sites

On 30 acres along the South Tamiami Trail (US-41) in Fort Myers, Florida—in Lee County where the Gulf Coast's barrier island beaches, the Caloosahatchee River's inland waterway, and the subtropical Southwest Florida ecosystem create the outdoor and cultural environment that makes the Fort Myers and Estero Bay area one of the premier winter destination corridors on Florida's Gulf Coast—Sun Retreats Estero Bay, a Sun Outdoors property, provides 300 full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service on brick paver concrete pads accommodating rigs up to 45 feet with slide-outs, large 75-foot pull-thru options, a heated pool and hot tub, two stocked catch-and-release lakes, a boardwalk and nature trail, shuffleboard, horseshoes, park model rentals, and the organized social community that Sun Outdoors manages across its Gulf Coast properties in a resort whose Lee County position puts Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, Bonita Beach, and the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve within day-trip distance of a professionally maintained full-hookup Gulf Coast address. The pads are concrete. The pool is heated. The Gulf is close. Three hundred full hookup sites on brick paver concrete pads with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer—the paver pads and the 45-foot accommodation capacity with full slide-out clearance establishing the premium infrastructure standard that a 300-site Sun Outdoors Gulf Coast resort maintains—alongside the 75-foot pull-thru options for the longest coaches provide the comprehensive hookup inventory for the winter snowbird population that occupies the Lee County Gulf Coast corridor from November through April. The heated pool and hot tub serve the year-round outdoor living that Southwest Florida's climate enables, and the two stocked catch-and-release lakes provide the on-property fishing that the Estero Bay and Caloosahatchee fishing culture extends in a managed, immediately accessible format. A boardwalk and nature trail through the 30-acre property's natural areas, shuffleboard courts, and horseshoes provide the active recreation complement to the pool and lake amenities, and WiFi throughout the property serves the remote work and streaming needs of the extended-stay winter guest. Fort Myers sits in Lee County on the Caloosahatchee River's southern bank, in the Southwest Florida coastal environment where the mangrove-fringed Estero Bay, the barrier island beaches of Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel, and the J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge create the natural infrastructure that makes Lee County one of Florida's most ecologically rich winter corridors. The Edison and Ford Winter Estates on the Caloosahatchee—Thomas Edison's botanical garden laboratory and Henry Ford's adjacent winter home—provide the historic and horticultural draw that Lee County's most visited non-beach destination delivers. Sanibel Island, 15 miles west via the Sanibel Causeway, provides the shelling beaches and the "Sanibel Stoop" shell-hunting culture that has made the island's lighthouse-end beach one of the most celebrated shelling destinations in the world—the J.N. "Ding" Darling Wildlife Refuge's 5,200 acres of mangrove, wetland, and upland habitat on the island's north side is one of the most accessible and productive wildlife refuges on the Gulf Coast. Fort Myers Beach on Estero Island, directly accessible via San Carlos Boulevard, provides the Gulf swimming and the Times Square entertainment district. Sun Retreats Estero Bay operates year-round in Lee County's subtropical climate, with the November through April snowbird season the resort's peak occupancy period and the Gulf Coast summer from June through September the off-peak months when the hurricane season and the heat reduce the winter-population seasonal residents to the year-round subset. Reserve your concrete pad at Sun Retreats Estero Bay and let the heated pool, the catch-and-release lakes, and the 15-minute drive to Sanibel and Fort Myers Beach make the Southwest Florida Gulf Coast winter exactly as relaxed as a Sun Outdoors Lee County address suggests it should be.

from $77/night

Sun Resorts & Residences Lake San Marino

86 RV Sites

Lake San Marino in North Naples, Florida, is a 55-plus community offering 86 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. Elite, standard, and cozy full-hookup categories join a pool, fitness center, recreation center, library, and pickleball courts minutes from the Gulf. Eighty-six back-in sites run in cozy, standard, and elite full-hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with picnic tables. All sites are back-in with plenty of room for slide-outs, and you can choose a grassy pad or a full concrete pad. A laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and recycling handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors daily recreation, with a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, game room, and library besides. Pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, billiards, corn hole, sports courts, a lake, pond, beach, dog park, and picnicking fill the grounds, with fishing and planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. The 55-plus designation and long-established community are the character here — this is an active-adult resort where residents and seasonal visitors know each other, not a transient park. North Naples puts the sugar-white Gulf beaches and the upscale boutiques and restaurants of Fifth Avenue South within minutes. Winter is decisively the season in Southwest Florida's 55-plus communities. January through March fills with snowbirds and the Naples corridor tightens considerably. Book well ahead for those months, with far easier availability through the summer.

from $61/night

Sun Retreats Naples East

12 RV Sites, 8 Cottages

At 3180 Beck Boulevard in Naples, Florida—on Florida's southwest Gulf Coast in Collier County where the city of Naples occupies the position that combines Fifth Avenue South's luxury retail and dining concentration, the Gordon River and Rookery Bay's wildlife-rich mangrove estuaries, and the Gulf of Mexico's clear water and white sand beaches in the combination that has made Naples the most expensive residential real estate market on Florida's west coast—Sun Retreats Naples East provides full hookup concrete-pad RV sites, vacation cottages, a heated pool with hot tub, pickleball, bocce ball, fitness center, and the planned activities calendar in the surrounded-by-nature-preserves setting that gives the resort its scenic and peaceful character within driving distance of the Gulf beaches and downtown Naples dining. The nature preserve surroundings, the heated pool, and the pickleball courts define the active resort character that the Sun Retreats brand maintains across its Florida Gulf Coast properties. Full hookup concrete-pad RV sites with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer connections in premium back-in and pull-through configurations accommodate RVs up to 45 feet. Patios and picnic tables at premium sites extend the outdoor living space that Naples' year-round outdoor climate makes functional across all months. Fully accessible vacation cottages with one bedroom, a queen bed, sleeper sofa sleeping up to four guests, air conditioning, stacked washer and dryer, flat-screen cable TV, fully equipped kitchen, accessible bathroom with grab bars, and a covered porch with patio furniture provide the cottage accommodation that guests without RVs or preferring private lodging specifically seek. A heated pool with a hot tub provides the aquatic amenity through Naples' mild winters and warm summers. A dog park, fitness center, game room, and on-site laundry complete the resort infrastructure. Planned activities coordinated by resort staff—bocce ball, horseshoes, pickleball tournaments, social hours—provide the organized programming calendar that extended-stay winter guests specifically value. The nature preserve acres surrounding the resort—part of the preserved natural lands that the Collier County conservation community has maintained at the urban-wildland interface—provide the birding, butterfly gardening, and native Florida habitat character that distinguishes the Beck Boulevard corridor from the developed commercial and residential land that Naples' growth has converted across most of Collier County. The preserve's proximity creates the sense of natural immersion that the resort's Beck Boulevard address within the Naples metro area doesn't automatically generate. Naples' Gulf beaches—accessible within minutes to miles depending on beach choice—provide the specific Gulf Coast beach experience that makes Naples' tourism economy function: the fine white quartz sand, the clear green-blue water, the Gulf's gentle surf, and the sunset-watching infrastructure on the western-facing beach that transforms a Naples afternoon beach visit into one of the most photogenic moments in Florida travel. The Naples Pier, the Tin City waterfront dining complex, Fifth Avenue South's restaurant row, and Bayfront Place's dining and watercraft rental concentration provide the dining and activity calendar within a short drive. Sun Retreats Naples East is open year-round in Naples' subtropical climate. The winter snowbird season from November through April fills the resort with northern guests seeking Gulf Coast warmth. Summer represents the shoulder season when Florida families and Gulf Coast visitors occupy the property at more accessible rates. Reserve early for January and February at peak snowbird density, plan the Gulf beach sunset for the first evening, and let Collier County's winter climate earn the Naples reputation that active retirees and winter travelers have been building across social networks for decades.

from $84/night

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

Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande

163 RV Sites

In Placida, Florida—on the Charlotte Harbor coast between Cape Haze and the Boca Grande Causeway, in the lower Charlotte County landscape where Pine Island Sound, Cape Haze, and the preserve lands surrounding Gasparilla Island create one of the most ecologically intact and least overdeveloped coastal environments on the Gulf Coast—Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande delivers 170 full hookup sites on paver pads alongside a resort-style pool, pickleball courts, fitness center, and private gated access to the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail. The lakefront setting on five acres of resort-maintained grounds, the fountain-lined lake, and the resort's Boca Grande proximity create a coastal Florida camping experience that the Charlotte Harbor's natural wealth and the historic fishing community of Boca Grande specifically amplify. All 170 sites provide full hookup service with 20, 30, and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer connections on paver pads—a site surface that keeps the Florida sand under control and provides the firm, clean pad surface that resort-quality campground positioning demands. A resort-style pool and fitness center serve the active adult and family recreation needs, and pickleball courts position the resort for the sport's dominance in the Florida winter snowbird demographic. A welcoming clubhouse, dog park, laundry facilities, WiFi, golf cart rentals, and food trucks round out the resort's social and practical infrastructure. Private gated access to the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail—a multi-use recreational trail through the Cape Haze peninsula's conservation lands—gives guests immediate off-road cycling and walking access that the surrounding preserve system makes one of the finest trail environments on the Gulf Coast. The five acres of lakefront grounds, the fountain-lined lake, and the resort's maintained natural areas provide the environmental quality that justifies the resort designation beyond the pool and pickleball courts. The Charlotte Harbor estuary's ecology—seagrass beds, mangrove shorelines, and the open-water habitat that supports the most diverse inshore fishery on the Gulf of Mexico—is immediately accessible from Placida's boat ramps and the fishing infrastructure that surrounds the resort's Charlotte Harbor position. Boca Grande—on Gasparilla Island across the causeway, the historic tarpon fishing capital of the world and the most architecturally preserved Old Florida resort town remaining on the Gulf Coast—is minutes from the resort by car or golf cart and provides the cultural experience that distinguishes a Charlotte Harbor visit from a standard Gulf beach trip. The tarpon season (May through August) brings sport fishing enthusiasts specifically for the 100-plus-pound silver kings that pass through Boca Grande Pass in concentrations that have defined the Florida sport fishing tradition since the Vanderbilt era. The island's restored historic downtown, Gasparilla Inn's century-old hospitality tradition, and the bike-accessible Gasparilla Island State Park beach provide the Boca Grande day-trip itinerary. Cabana Bay RV Resort by Boca Grande is open year-round in Charlotte County's warm-season climate, with peak demand from November through April during the snowbird season and again in May through August during tarpon season. The Cape Haze Pioneer Trail is most pleasant in the cooler months when cycling through the peninsula's preserve lands is comfortable in the morning. Reserve your paver-pad site early for the winter season and let the Charlotte Harbor Coast make the case for the Gulf Coast that exists south of the resort corridor and north of the Naples luxury market.

from $90/night

Timberline Glamping at Naples

Timberline Glamping at Naples in Collier County, Florida, delivers safari-style tent accommodations with air conditioning, heating, comfortable beds, and a coffee maker in the natural setting southwest of Naples — a glamping property that gives guests the outdoor camping connection with the southwest Florida landscape without the infrastructure gap between deluxe hotel accommodation and primitive camping that the Naples area's visitor market has consistently shown it is not interested in bridging on its own. The safari tent format, combining canvas tent enclosure with genuine modern comfort systems, creates the specific outdoor-indoor hybrid experience that the glamping category delivers at its most satisfying when the natural setting outside the tent justifies the accommodation format itself. Air-conditioned and heated safari-style tent accommodations give guests the complete modern comfort systems for year-round Florida outdoor stays — the air conditioning specifically addresses the reality that southwest Florida's summer humidity and heat make unaided outdoor sleeping uncomfortable in a way that reduces camping's appeal to the substantial non-camping fraction of the Naples visitor demographic. The coffee maker and comfortable bed infrastructure give the tents the turnkey morning experience that glamping guests specifically cite as the category's primary experiential advantage over conventional tent camping. The property's natural setting provides the outdoor connection — birds, warm nights, and southwest Florida's distinctive subtropical vegetation — that the indoor amenity infrastructure supports rather than replaces. Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, 30 miles northeast of Naples in Collier County, preserves the largest remaining old-growth bald cypress forest in North America — a 13,000-acre Audubon Society sanctuary whose 2.5-mile boardwalk trail through ancient cypress trees, some over 500 years old and 130 feet tall, with knees rising from the dark swamp water below, delivers a natural landscape experience of genuine profundity that has no equivalent elsewhere in the continental United States. The sanctuary's winter wading bird nesting colony, concentrating wood storks, great blue herons, anhingas, and roseate spoonbills in the cypress canopy, is one of the most spectacular wildlife aggregations in Florida. Big Cypress National Preserve, northeast of Naples, protects 720,000 acres of the South Florida freshwater watershed that sustains Everglades National Park's flow regime and the Florida panther population that the preserve's vast, undeveloped landscape supports in the largest concentration remaining in the eastern United States. Airboat and swamp buggy tours through the Big Cypress cypress strand and wet prairie habitat give visitors the immersive Southwest Florida wetland experience that the Everglades' more managed visitor infrastructure channels more rigidly. Timberline Glamping at Naples operates year-round in Collier County's subtropical climate, with the winter dry season from December through April representing the most comfortable outdoor recreation conditions and the primary snowbird season that sustains Southwest Florida's hospitality economy through the cooler months. The summer wet season from June through September delivers daily afternoon thunderstorms and higher temperatures but also the lushest tropical vegetation and the active birdlife that follows South Florida's summer monsoon rains through the freshwater wetland systems. Reserve safari tent accommodations ahead for the winter peak season from January through March, when Naples's accommodation market is at its most competitive and the outdoor glamping experience is most comfortable in the subtropical outdoors.

Myakka River RV Resort

24 RV Sites, 2 Tent Sites, 21 Park Models

Directly on the Myakka River in North Port, Florida—in Sarasota County where the Myakka River's blackwater flow through the flatwood prairie, cypress swamp, and tropical hammock creates the most wildlife-rich river corridor in southwest Florida—Myakka River RV Resort offers big-rig-friendly full hookup sites with 30 and 50-amp service, patio slabs and picnic tables at every site, high-speed WiFi throughout, cable TV, and both riverfront and nature-preserve sites in a resort that provides direct access to one of Florida's most extraordinary natural waterways in the community between Sarasota and Port Charlotte that has become one of southwest Florida's fastest-growing residential and visitor destinations. For guests who want the Myakka River in the backyard rather than as a day-trip destination, this is the park that provides it. All sites run on full hookup service—30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer—on the concrete patio slabs that Florida's year-round outdoor living culture demands as a baseline, with picnic tables at every site providing the outdoor dining and relaxation space that the Myakka's wildlife parade makes genuinely rewarding to occupy. High-speed WiFi serves the remote workers and extended-stay guests who use the North Port corridor as a winter base, and cable TV provides the indoor entertainment option that Florida's occasional rainy afternoon necessitates. Riverfront sites provide direct visual access to the Myakka River's wildlife—the alligators, river otters, anhinga, and wading birds that use the river's undisturbed banks as year-round habitat—while nature-preserve sites offer the wooded privacy of the adjacent upland habitat. Big-rig-friendly infrastructure ensures that the resort's largest guests arrive and depart without difficulty. North Port occupies Sarasota County in the Charlotte Harbor estuary watershed, in the geographic transition between the coastal resort communities of Sarasota County and the Charlotte Harbor area's fishing and boating culture. The Myakka River flows south through North Port from its origin in the Green Swamp toward Charlotte Harbor in one of Florida's most ecologically significant river corridors—the blackwater chemistry produced by tannins from the surrounding vegetation creates the dark, tea-colored water that supports a distinctive aquatic community and the river's exceptional clarity despite its dark color. Myakka River State Park, approximately 20 miles northeast of North Port near Sarasota, protects 57,000 acres of the Myakka River's upper watershed in one of Florida's largest and most ecologically diverse state parks. The park's two lakes, the guided airboat tours, the tram tours through the dry prairie and hammock habitats, and the boardwalk through the floodplain forest create a wildlife viewing experience that consistently delivers alligator, sandhill crane, roseate spoonbill, and the concentrated waterbird populations that the Myakka's backwater floodplain supports. Sarasota's cultural infrastructure—the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Sarasota Jungle Gardens, the Bayfront Park and Marina Jack waterfront—and Venice Beach's shark tooth fossil collecting on the Gulf shore extend the day-trip options. Myakka River RV Resort operates year-round in Sarasota County's subtropical climate, where the prime season from November through April delivers the mild, dry weather that makes southwest Florida camping genuinely comfortable and the winter snowbird community fills the campground with the extended-stay guests who make the Myakka River their winter home. The summer wet season from June through September brings the river's alligator and bird activity to its peak as the floodplain fills with water and concentrates wildlife in the management that Florida's seasonal hydrology produces. Reserve your riverfront or preserve site at Myakka River RV Resort and let the Myakka's wildlife corridor, the big-rig-friendly infrastructure, and the North Port position between Sarasota and Charlotte Harbor deliver the southwest Florida RV experience with a river view.

from $50/night

Meadowlark Shores RV Park

Meadowlark Shores RV Park in Moore Haven, Florida, offers full-hookup RV sites steps from Lake Okeechobee, with boat docks, a boat ramp, an outdoor pool, and a hot tub behind a gated entrance. A clubhouse, recreation center, and personal mailboxes serve both travelers and longer-stay residents on the Big Lake. Full-hookup RV sites carry water, sewer, and electric. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, firewood, personal mailboxes, and a pet washing station handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout and a gated entrance controlling access. The mailboxes and washing station point clearly at the extended-stay guests the park serves alongside travelers. The lake carries the recreation. Boat docks and a boat ramp give direct access for fishing, boating, canoeing, and kayaking, with an outdoor pool and hot tub as the managed alternative. A clubhouse, recreation center, game room, arcade, pond, walking trails, playground, dog park, pavilion, horseshoes, shuffleboard, biking, and picnicking fill the grounds, with strong birding along the shoreline. Pets are welcome. Moore Haven sits in Glades County on US-27 and SR-78 on Lake Okeechobee's northern shore — the largest freshwater lake in Florida and the second-largest natural freshwater lake in the contiguous United States. Glades County is among Florida's most rural and lightly developed, and the Okeechobee bass fishery is the main draw. LaBelle River Rentals and Gatorama are nearby on the Caloosahatchee. Winter and spring bass season drive the heaviest demand. Reserve ahead.

from $53/night

Fisheating Creek Outpost

44 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 69 Tent Sites

In Palmdale, Florida—in Glades County on Fisheating Creek where the tributary that flows northwest into Lake Okeechobee through one of the last free-flowing undammed creek systems in South Florida sustains the bass, catfish, and panfish fishery, the sandhill crane and limpkin populations, and the cypress swamp and prairie ecosystem that the surrounding conservation lands protect in an area that Florida outdoor enthusiasts access specifically for the natural character that the coasts and the theme park corridor cannot provide—Fisheating Creek Outpost offers 48 full hookup RV sites on concrete pads with water, sewer, and electric, 68 tent sites many positioned directly on the creek or near the swim lake, a furnished cabin with private bedroom, kitchen, air conditioning, and bath, two bathhouses with hot showers, laundry, a well-stocked camp store, and a fleet of 80 canoes, kayaks, and stand-up paddleboards available for hourly rental, creating the most complete paddle outpost on one of South Florida's most ecologically significant waterways. The creek is the destination. The canoe fleet has 80. The 48 full hookup RV sites on concrete pads with water, sewer, and electric provide the infrastructure alongside the 68 tent sites—many positioned directly on Fisheating Creek or near the swim lake for the water's-edge experience that the non-hookup camper seeks in the creek bottom's cypress-and-oak setting. The furnished cabin's private bedroom, kitchen with stove and refrigerator, air conditioning, and bath provides the enclosed accommodation for the guest whose comfort requirements exceed the tent but whose gear doesn't include a motorized rig. Two bathhouses with hot showers, laundry, and the well-stocked camp store create the daily support infrastructure. The 80-canoe, kayak, and paddleboard fleet—available by the hour—eliminates the need to bring paddling equipment to one of Florida's most rewarding paddling waterways and creates the access point that the Fisheating Creek Water Management Area's multi-day paddle camping trips begin from. Fisheating Creek flows 70 miles from the prairies of Highlands County northwest to Lake Okeechobee's northwestern shore in Glades County, draining the last significant free-flowing undammed creek system entering Lake Okeechobee. The Fisheating Creek Water Management Area's 22,000-plus acres of upland pine, wet prairie, cypress swamp, and creek floodplain protect the wildlife corridor that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the South Florida Water Management District have preserved as the Okeechobee watershed's most ecologically intact tributary. Lake Okeechobee, 20 miles east, provides the 730-square-mile lake's largemouth bass fishing—the trophy-class bass fishery that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's management program sustains in the shallow, vegetation-rich lake creates the supplementary angling destination for the Fisheating Creek visitor whose creek fishing appetite extends beyond the outpost's immediate waterway. Highlands Hammock State Park, 40 miles north near Sebring, provides the ancient live oak hammock—one of the oldest and most pristine natural communities in Florida—and the Civilian Conservation Corps' 1930s-era infrastructure in one of Florida's original state parks. Sebring International Raceway's 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race and the Highlands Hammock's visitor center create the cultural and natural attractions accessible from the Glades County position. Fisheating Creek Outpost operates year-round in Glades County's subtropical climate, with the winter and spring months from November through May the most comfortable paddling and camping season and the summer wet season from June through September bringing the afternoon thunderstorms and the wading bird activity that the creek's flooded margins sustain at their most abundant. Reserve your RV pad, tent site, or cabin at Fisheating Creek Outpost and let the 80-paddle fleet, the free-flowing creek's bass and panfish fishery, and the Glades County natural landscape deliver the South Florida outdoors experience that the coasts cannot provide.

Cross Creek RV Resort

17 RV Sites

On the Peace River in Arcadia at the heart of DeSoto County's ranch and citrus country, Cross Creek RV Resort has earned one of the rarest distinctions in North American campground quality—a Good Sam 10/10/10 rating, one of only six resorts in all of Florida to achieve the scoring system's perfect marks for facilities, restrooms, and visual appeal. The resort's 50-amp full-hookup sites measuring at least 38 by 75 feet, two swimming pools, spa, boat launch, fishing docks, miniature golf, and the Peace River frontage that places guests on one of Florida's most famous fossil hunting rivers create a resort experience that the Peace River valley's unique prehistoric heritage makes genuinely irreplaceable in the broader Florida campground landscape. All full-hookup sites feature 50-amp electric, water, sewer, cable TV, and Wi-Fi on pads at least 38 by 75 feet—large enough to accommodate the widest and longest rigs on the road today with room for double slide-outs and full outdoor setup. Riverfront and waterfront site configurations give the most desirable locations direct Peace River access, and the boat launch and fishing docks provide the on-water infrastructure for guests who want to explore the river by canoe, kayak, or powerboat. Two pools, a spa, miniature golf, shuffleboard, bocce ball, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, a dog park, camp store, pavilion, recreation hall, and planned activities complete one of the most comprehensive resort amenity packages in southwest Florida. The Peace River, flowing past the resort's waterfront sites southward through DeSoto, Hardee, and Charlotte Counties to the tidal estuary at Charlotte Harbor, is one of Florida's most paleontologically significant river systems—a shallow, dark-water river whose acidic sediments have preserved Ice Age megafauna fossils in extraordinary condition for millions of years. Fossil hunters wade the Peace River's gravel bars and shallow bottom in search of mastodon teeth, giant ground sloth bones, megalodon shark teeth, and the remains of Pleistocene horses and camels that accumulated in the river's prehistoric shoreline environments when south Florida was dry savanna during the ice ages. Guided fossil hunting excursions from Arcadia give campground guests professional interpretation that transforms fossil hunting from a lucky find into an educational introduction to Florida's extraordinary prehistoric fauna. Arcadia, the DeSoto County seat, maintains the western flavor of Central Florida's ranch country in its historic downtown and the All-Florida Championship Rodeo—one of Florida's oldest and most authentic rodeos, held each spring and fall in a county that still runs cattle on the flatwoods and palmetto prairies covering DeSoto County's undeveloped interior. Myakka River State Park, about 30 miles northwest, provides one of Florida's premier wildlife watching destinations with resident alligators, Florida sandhill cranes, and the roseate spoonbill and wood stork nesting colonies that make the Myakka River marshes one of the state's most biologically productive wetland habitats. Sarasota, with world-class arts institutions and the Gulf beaches of Siesta Key and Lido Key, lies 50 miles northwest. The Peace River valley's subtropical climate supports year-round camping at Cross Creek, with the winter season from November through April drawing the largest concentration of snowbird guests who fill the resort's riverfront and waterfront sites for weeks and months at a time in south-central Florida's mild winter conditions. Fossil hunting is most productive after summer rains have washed new material from the river banks, making the late summer and early fall months—when the Peace River's thunderstorm season has freshly eroded the gravel bars—the most rewarding time for a fossil hunting visit. Reserve riverfront sites well ahead for the peak winter season when the resort's 10/10/10 reputation and Peace River location create demand that the limited number of prime waterfront sites cannot satisfy through the most popular weeks.

from $62/night