Fishing

Shell Island Fish Camp

5 Park Models

Shell Island Fish Camp in Saint Marks, Florida, offers full-hookup RV sites with water, sewer, and electric alongside park model and cabin accommodations at a working marina on the St. Marks River. Boat docks, a boat ramp, boat rentals, and boat storage have served anglers here since 1952. Full-hookup back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric, with park models and cabins rounding out the accommodations. A general store, dump station, restrooms, showers, and a pavilion handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout. Boat storage is available — genuinely useful at a property where nearly every guest arrives towing. The marina is the identity. Boat docks, a boat ramp, and boat rentals give direct access to the St. Marks River where it transitions through tidal estuary toward Apalachee Bay and the Gulf. Fishing and boating run from the property, with planned activities through the season and outstanding birding across the surrounding salt marsh. Seven decades of continuous operation reflect the persistent appeal of the St. Marks corridor as a Gulf fishing and natural history destination. The tidal rivers and salt marsh of the Big Bend coast open onto the Apalachee Bay fishery, with the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge protecting 70,000 acres of coastal habitat immediately around — one of the premier birding sites in the Southeast, particularly during migration. Fishing season runs long on the Gulf, with fall and spring the most productive and the most comfortable. Reserve ahead for peak fishing periods.

Ho-Hum RV Park

52 RV Sites

Ho-Hum RV Park in Carrabelle, Florida, offers 52 full-hookup RV sites on the Gulf, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Beachfront pull-in and beach view pull-through categories join interior back-in, pull-in, and pull-through tiers, with a half-mile walking beach and a 250-foot fishing pier. Fifty-two sites span beachfront pull-in, beach view pull-thru, interior back-in, interior pull-in, and interior pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with picnic tables. The beachfront pull-in sites face the Gulf directly — the whole reason to book here. Contact the park before your arrival date to confirm check-in. One policy to clear first: in general the park does not accept RVs older than 10 years, homemade RVs, converted school buses, or conversion vans, though exceptions are made. A laundry, propane fills, restrooms, showers, golf cart rentals, and a recreation center handle the practical side. A half-mile of natural walking beach and a 250-foot fishing pier anchor the property, with unobstructed Gulf views, boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, a dog park, and productive birding besides. The park sits four miles east of Carrabelle in Lanark Village, where the Apalachicola National Forest and Tate's Hell State Forest meet the least commercialized stretch of the Panhandle coast. Winter and spring draw the heaviest demand on the Forgotten Coast. Book well ahead for January through April.

from $46 $40/night

Coastline RV Resort

34 RV Sites

Coastline RV Resort sits directly on Apalachicola Bay in Eastpoint, Florida, a quiet fishing village on the Forgotten Coast where the pace slows and the saltwater air clears your head. The resort occupies prime bayfront real estate, offering guests sweeping views of one of Florida's most productive estuaries—a place where wild oysters have been harvested for generations and the shallow bay teems with redfish, flounder, and speckled trout. The resort accommodates rigs up to 45 feet across 103 full-hookup sites with 30/50-amp electric, water, sewer, cable TV, and WiFi included in every stay. Two pools anchor the recreation area—the east pool is heated for cooler mornings—and a fishing pier extends over the bay so you can drop a line the moment you unhitch. The clubhouse includes a full kitchen, game room, fitness center, and a screened porch overlooking the water, while two dog parks, cornhole courts, pickleball, laundry facilities, and three bathhouses round out the on-site amenities. A propane fill station and on-site restaurant mean you can stay as long as you like without leaving the property. Eastpoint's Forgotten Coast setting is the real draw here. Apalachicola Bay stretches before you, calm and shallow, backed by marsh grasses that turn golden at dusk. The bay feeds one of the largest oyster-harvesting operations in the Southeast, and the sense of being embedded in a working waterfront ecosystem—rather than an engineered resort landscape—gives Coastline RV Resort a character that's hard to find in Florida. Coastal cottages are also available for guests who prefer a roof over a slide-out. St. George Island lies just across the bridge from Eastpoint, a barrier island famous for its uncrowded white-sand beaches, excellent surf fishing, and state park trails that wind through coastal scrub to the Gulf. Historic Apalachicola, a short drive west, offers locally owned restaurants, oyster bars, a thriving art community, and the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve. Apalachicola National Forest spreads out to the north, providing miles of hiking, paddling, and backcountry camping for those who want to venture beyond the bay. Coastline RV Resort is a year-round destination, though fall through spring brings the most temperate weather and the highest demand, particularly among snowbirds escaping northern winters. Reservations are strongly recommended for the peak November–April season, as waterfront sites on this stretch of Florida fill quickly. If you're looking for an RV resort that trades theme-park-style amenities for authentic Gulf Coast character—complete with a fishing pier, bay views, and world-famous oysters within walking distance—Coastline RV Resort is a rare find on the Forgotten Coast.

from $80/night

Madison RV & Golf Resort

93 RV Sites

Madison RV & Golf Resort in Madison, Florida, offers 91 full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 80 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Five categories include fairway back-in and waterfront back-in sites alongside standard, premium, and pull-through options, behind a gated entrance with golf cart rentals and an outdoor pool. Ninety-one sites span standard back-in, premium back-in, fairway back-in, waterfront back-in, and pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 80 feet, with site WiFi. The fairway and waterfront categories are worth requesting early — they are the reason to choose this resort over a highway park. A dump station, laundry, propane fills, RV storage, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side, and a gated entrance controls access. An outdoor pool anchors the recreation, with a clubhouse, pickleball courts, and corn hole filling the grounds. A pond on the property supports fishing, golf cart rentals make the resort easy to cross, and a dog park serves pets. A golf course is adjacent — the resort's organizing feature and the reason much of its clientele books. Pets are welcome. Madison sits in Madison County roughly 50 miles east of Tallahassee, in North Florida's Big Bend country. The Suwannee River watershed's spring-fed streams run nearby, and the surrounding agricultural landscape is among the most rural in the state — which keeps pricing well below the Gulf and Atlantic coastal corridors for comparable infrastructure. Winter and spring draw golf-focused visitors and snowbirds. Reserve ahead for those months.

from $27/night

Dead Lakes RV Park & Campground

39 RV Sites

Dead Lakes RV Park and Campground sits in Wewahitchka, Florida, on the edge of one of the Florida Panhandle's most hauntingly beautiful natural waterways—a place where the Chipola River backs up behind a natural sand dam to create a vast cypress graveyard of standing timber and blackwater lakes that give the dead lakes rv park its striking name and its singular character. This is the kind of Florida that existed long before the theme parks and condo towers—wild, swampy, productive, and genuinely unlike anything else along the Gulf Coast corridor. The campground provides RV sites that run 50 feet in length and 24 feet wide, with electric service at 20, 30, and 50 amp, full water and sewer hookups, and picnic tables on gravel and milled asphalt pads. A general store with bait and tackle handles fishing preparation and basic supplies, and showers, restrooms, laundry, and a dump station address the practical needs of an extended stay. Boat ramps provide direct access to both Dead Lakes and the Apalachicola River, putting guests within minutes of two of the region's most productive fishing waterways. Fishing piers on the property's own small lakes give casual anglers an immediate option without launching a boat, and kayak rentals are available nearby for guests who want to paddle the cypress corridors of the Dead Lakes themselves. A playground and picnic pavilions complete the family-friendly amenities. The Dead Lakes were formed when sand bars at the confluence of the Chipola and Apalachicola Rivers rose high enough to impound the Chipola's flow, flooding the bottomland hardwood forest that once stood there. The standing dead cypress and tupelo that remain create a labyrinthine water environment unlike anything else in Florida—a maze of channels, coves, and open water haunted by osprey, herons, wood ducks, and alligators. The fishing for largemouth bass, crappie, and bream in this drowned forest is consistently productive and genuinely wild in a way that Florida's managed fisheries rarely feel. Wewahitchka is the self-proclaimed tupelo honey capital of the world, and the surrounding swamps produce the pure Ogeechee tupelo honey that is harvested each spring from hives floated on the river—a regional product with a protected designation and a devoted following among honey connoisseurs. The Apalachicola River downstream from the park is one of the most biologically diverse river systems in the eastern United States, supporting endemic fish, mussels, and reptiles found nowhere else on Earth. St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge and Cape San Blas are accessible by a short drive south along the Forgotten Coast, providing Gulf beach access and one of the Florida Panhandle's most remote barrier island experiences. Dead Lakes RV Park and Campground appeals to travelers who prioritize access to productive wild water over resort amenities—anglers, paddlers, nature photographers, and people who want to experience a corner of Florida that hasn't been smoothed into easy accessibility. The campground's boat ramps, bait store, and direct lake access define the experience here. Spring crappie fishing and fall bass fishing are the calendar's peak periods, and the campground fills with serious anglers during those runs. Off-season visits offer the quietest Dead Lakes experience and the best conditions for paddling and wildlife observation in the channels and coves.

from $28/night

Suwannee River Rendezvous Resort & Campground

319 RV Sites, 14 Cabins, 19 Tent Sites, 1 Cottage, 1 Treehouse, 3 Lodges, 1 Suite

Suwannee River Rendezvous Resort and Campground in Mayo, Florida, offers 319 RV sites, 20 cabin, cottage, lodge, suite, and treehouse units, and 19 tent sites on the Suwannee River, with 20, 30, and 50-amp full hookups, cable TV, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 65 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Dog park back-in categories join standard full-hookup tiers, alongside a spring-fed spa, disc golf course, and boat ramp. Three hundred nineteen sites span 30/50-amp full hookup back-in, 30/50-amp full hookup back-in dog park, and 30/50-amp full hookup back-in dog park Primrose Park categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 65 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Dedicated dog park sites put you next to the run rather than across the property. Accessible sites are available. Twenty cabins, cottages, lodges, suites, and treehouses and 19 tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and spa anchor the property, with a boat ramp and kayak rentals opening the river for canoeing, kayaking, and fishing. A disc golf course, mini-golf, fitness center, recreation center, game room, arcade, sports courts, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, billiards, ping pong, horseshoes, corn hole, walking trails, a playground, pavilion, dog park, and on-site dining fill the rest. Lafayette Blue Springs, Troy Spring, Peacock Springs, and Ichetucknee are all close. Spring and fall are peak on the springs circuit. Reserve well ahead.

from $40/night

Port Saint Joe RV Resort

72 RV Sites

Port Saint Joe RV Resort in Florida offers 72 full-hookup RV sites on St. Joseph Bay, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 65 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, behind a gated entrance. Water view back-in and pull-through categories join a standard tier, with a marina, boat and kayak rentals, outdoor pool, and beach. Seventy-two sites run in back-in, water view back-in, and water view pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 65 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Two of three categories carry a water view, which tells you what the property is built around. A general store, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. A marina, boat rentals, and kayak rentals open the bay for boating, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving, swimming, and fishing, with a beach on the property. A playground, pavilion, dog park, volleyball, and on-site dining fill the rest. Scuba and snorkeling are worth noting — St. Joseph Bay's seagrass beds and clear water make it one of the better shallow-water dive spots on the Panhandle. Port St. Joe sits between Mexico Beach and Indian Pass on a stretch of Gulf County coastline that escaped the overdevelopment of Destin and Panama City Beach and kept its quiet and its natural integrity. Some of the finest white-sand beaches on the Gulf, including St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, are ten minutes away. Spring and summer drive demand on the Forgotten Coast, with mild winters drawing snowbirds. Reserve well ahead for warm-weather weekends.

from $54/night

Coastal Soul

1 RV Site

Positioned on the Forgotten Coast in Port St. Joe, Florida, Coastal Soul RV Beach Retreat sits just steps from the sugar-white sand beaches and emerald Gulf waters along Indian Pass—one of the more secluded and naturally intact stretches of Florida's Panhandle coastline. The retreat is designed primarily for Class A and Super C motorcoaches, reflecting an emphasis on providing a premium coastal RV destination for guests traveling in larger, higher-specification rigs who seek immediate beach proximity in a quieter Forgotten Coast setting. The retreat's defining feature is its beach adjacency—guests are within a short walk of the Gulf of Mexico, where Indian Pass's calm, clear water and wide sand beach deliver a swimming, sunbathing, and beachcombing environment characteristic of the Forgotten Coast at its most natural. The Gulf Coast Highway scenic corridor runs through the immediate area, offering driving views of the bay and Gulf that showcase the natural character of the St. Joseph Bay and Indian Pass wetland system. The semi-private feel of the retreat's coastal setting gives it a more intimate atmosphere than heavily developed beach resort campgrounds elsewhere on the Florida coast. St. Joseph Bay, the sheltered embayment between the Cape San Blas peninsula and the mainland, is considered one of the most ecologically pristine bays in Florida—a designation that reflects the bay's exceptional water clarity, seagrass meadows, and wildlife diversity, including one of the highest densities of horseshoe crabs on the Gulf Coast. Kayaking and paddleboarding on the bay provides a calm-water alternative to the open Gulf, and the bay's grass flats support scalloping during the summer season when Forgotten Coast scalloping draws visitors from across the state. Apalachicola Bay, approximately 20 miles east, is one of the most productive oyster-producing estuaries in the country and the centerpiece of the historic fishing community of Apalachicola—a town that combines Victorian-era architecture, independent restaurants serving locally harvested seafood, and the John Gorrie State Museum honoring the inventor of artificial ice with a cultural depth unusual for a community of its size. Fishing from shore or via chartered vessels in Apalachicola Bay targets flounder, redfish, speckled trout, and other inshore species in one of Florida's most productive coastal fisheries. Coastal Soul RV Beach Retreat offers access to an extended Gulf Coast season, with spring and fall bringing the most comfortable outdoor temperatures and the clearest water conditions for swimming and bay paddling. Summer remains warm and humid but delivers the longest beach days and the peak scalloping window on St. Joseph Bay. Advance reservations are recommended for all seasons, as the retreat's limited capacity and premium beach position create consistently high demand from guests seeking the Forgotten Coast's natural character combined with full-service RV infrastructure. The Forgotten Coast's name reflects its historical status as one of the least commercially developed stretches of the Florida Panhandle coastline—a condition that has been preserved by the concentration of protected state forests, wildlife refuges, and state parks in the St. Joe Bay and Apalachicola Bay corridor that limit the kind of high-density resort development present farther east toward Panama City.

from $140/night

Palms and Pines Campground & RV Park

50 RV Sites, 2 Cabins, 4 Tent Sites

Palms and Pines Campground and RV Park in Jennings, Florida, offers 50 full-hookup pull-through RV sites, two cabins, and four tent sites on the I-75 corridor near the Georgia border, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 75 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Lakefront, deluxe patio, and premium pull-through categories join a pool, recreation center, and clubhouse. Fifty sites run in premium pull-thru, deluxe patio pull-thru, and lakefront pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 75 feet, with picnic tables and BBQ pits. An all-pull-through layout at 75 feet is genuinely convenient — no backing after a long interstate day, at any site. The lakefront category is worth requesting for a longer stay. Two cabins and four tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. The address is 2039 Hamilton Ave. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a recreation center, clubhouse, sports courts, basketball, volleyball, shuffleboard, bocce ball, billiards, horseshoes, corn hole, a lake, pond, walking trails, biking, a playground, and pavilion filling the grounds. Fishing runs on the property, and a state park is nearby. Pets are welcome. Jennings sits in Hamilton County 20 miles from Valdosta, Georgia, and about 80 minutes from Gainesville — a practical gateway stop for I-75 travelers and a workable base for the north Florida springs. Snowbird season drives demand. Reserve ahead for January through March.

from $40/night

Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park & Campground

838 RV Sites, 28 Cabins, 1 Apartment, 1 Treehouse

Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park and Campground in Live Oak, Florida, offers 838 full-hookup RV sites and 30 apartment, cabin, and treehouse units across more than 800 acres on the Suwannee River, with 30 and 50-amp service. Back-in and pull-in categories at both amperages join water-and-electric tiers, alongside a world-class music venue, disc golf course, and pool. Eight hundred thirty-eight sites span back-in 30-amp, back-in 30-amp water-and-electric, back-in 50-amp, back-in 50-amp water-and-electric, back-in water-and-electric, pull-in 30-amp, and pull-in categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with site WiFi. Check which tier you are booking — the water-and-electric categories do not carry sewer at the site. Thirty apartments, cabins, and treehouses round out an unusually varied lodging inventory. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors daily recreation, with a lake, river, and beach supporting swimming, fishing, canoeing, and kayaking. A disc golf course, recreation center, game room, playground, pavilion, walking trails, hiking, golf cart rentals, on-site dining, and a bar fill the grounds, with live music, planned activities, and productive birding besides. The property operates as a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. The music venue is the reason this place has no direct equivalent anywhere in the country — hundreds of acres of old-growth Florida forest, a working festival ground, and a full-service campground that have coexisted for decades. Festival weekends fill the park months ahead. Check the concert calendar and reserve as early as you can.

Jasmine Breeze RV Park

2 RV Sites

Jasmine Breeze RV Park in Old Town, Florida, is a four-acre riverside campground in Dixie County on the lower Suwannee River — a full-hookup, Wi-Fi-connected park within an hour of Gainesville and Cedar Key in the Nature Coast's river and spring country that gives guests the specific combination of old Florida river character, first-magnitude spring access, and the Gulf coast fishing village heritage of Cedar Key that the unspoiled Suwannee River corridor and the Big Bend coast preserve as one of the most ecologically intact and most historically distinctive rural Florida landscapes remaining in the state. Old Town's Dixie County position on the lower Suwannee, 10 miles from the river's Gulf mouth, gives the campground its specific Nature Coast identity. Full-hookup RV sites with Wi-Fi and the essential campground infrastructure give Jasmine Breeze the comfortable practical base for extended Dixie County and Nature Coast stays — the campground's small, four-acre scale gives it the intimate character that large-volume RV parks structurally cannot provide, and the riverside Old Town location gives guests the Suwannee River access that Stephen Foster's 1851 "Old Folks at Home" immortalized in one of the most enduring and most specifically named landscape songs in American popular music, even though Foster himself never visited the Suwannee he wrote into the national consciousness. Pets are welcome. Manatee Springs State Park, seven miles north of Old Town in Levy County, is one of Florida's most extraordinary first-magnitude springs — a spring that discharges 117 million gallons per day of 68-degree crystal-clear water into the Suwannee River through a 30-foot-wide main boil and a river-level boardwalk that gives visitors the direct view of the spring's underwater character and the West Indian manatees that congregate in the spring run during winter months. The spring's Suwannee River discharge gives paddlers the spring-to-river float that connects the crystal spring clarity to the tannin-dark Suwannee in a short canoe or kayak trip of extraordinary ecological contrast. Cedar Key, 25 miles southwest of Old Town on the Gulf of Mexico via State Route 24, is one of Florida's oldest and most historically significant small coastal communities — a fishing village on a cluster of Gulf of Mexico islands where the Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge protects the nesting bird colonies and the aquaculture operations that sustain the clam farming economy that has replaced the 19th-century pencil mill and net fisheries as Cedar Key's economic identity. The Cedar Key Museum State Park preserves the community's 19th-century history, and the Second Street arts and antiques district, the waterfront restaurants, and the Cedar Key Seafood Festival sustain the village's tourism identity in a format that avoids the commercialization that Florida's more accessible coastal communities have been unable to resist. Jasmine Breeze RV Park serves guests year-round in Dixie County's subtropical North Florida climate, where the winter manatee season at Manatee Springs from November through March and the spring and fall kayaking and river fishing seasons represent the primary outdoor recreation windows for the Suwannee corridor. The Suwannee River Wilderness Trail, a 170-mile paddling route from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico, passes through the Old Town area and gives the campground its specific appeal for multi-day paddling trip staging and resupply. Reserve sites ahead for the winter manatee season and the Cedar Key Seafood Festival weekend in October, when the Nature Coast visitor market fills Dixie County's limited accommodation inventory.

from $35/night

Sun Outdoors Panama City Beach

155 RV Sites

Sun Outdoors Panama City Beach in Florida offers 155 full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 80 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, behind a gated entrance. Premium lake front pull-in, cozy, standard back-in, and pull-through categories join two heated pools, a hot tub, and fitness center on the Emerald Coast. One hundred fifty-five sites span cozy back-in, standard back-in, standard pull-through, and premium lake front pull-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 80 feet, with picnic tables. The lake front pull-in category is worth requesting. A general store, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The property was formerly Emerald Coast RV Resort. Two heated pools and a hot tub anchor the recreation, with a fitness center, clubhouse, and pavilion besides. Pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, corn hole, and sports courts fill the courts, and a lake and pond support fishing. Walking, biking, a playground, dog park, and community fire pit round it out, with planned activities through the season. A beach and water park are nearby. Pets are welcome. The Emerald Coast's quartz-white sand and turquoise water rank among the most visually striking beaches on the Gulf, and the resort sits minutes from them. Spring break and summer beach season drive the sharpest demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $66/night