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The Palms of Gainesville RV Resort

115 RV Sites

The Palms of Gainesville RV Resort in Florida offers 115 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 45 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, behind a gated entrance. Back-in categories at both amperages join a 30/50-amp pull-through tier, with an outdoor pool, fitness center, concierge, and pond. One hundred fifteen sites run in back-in 30-amp, back-in 30/50-amp, and pull-thru 30/50-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet. Three straightforward categories keep booking simple — pick your amp service and whether you want to back in. Accessible sites are available. A laundry, restrooms, showers, and a concierge handle the practical side. A concierge at an RV resort is unusual and tells you something about the service level. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with a fitness center, pond, pickleball, ping pong, and swimming filling the grounds. Planned activities run through the season, and a golf course, a state park, and a national park area are nearby. Pets are welcome. The resort was formerly Santa Fe Palms RV Resort, under the same ownership and management with a new name and look. Gainesville blends small-town hospitality with the amenities of a university city — the University of Florida campus, Paynes Prairie Preserve's wild bison and horses, the Florida Museum of Natural History, and the north Florida springs corridor are all within easy reach. Fall football Saturdays and the winter snowbird months drive the heaviest demand. Reserve well ahead for home game weekends and for January through March.

from $55/night

High Springs RV Resort and Campground

52 RV Sites, 7 Tent Sites

High Springs RV Resort and Campground in High Springs, Florida, offers 52 RV sites and seven primitive tent sites minutes from Interstate 75, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 90 feet. Six categories cover grass and paved back-ins and paved pull-throughs, with an outdoor pool and on-site dining, open all year in north-central Florida's spring country. Fifty-two sites run in grass 30-amp back-ins, grass 30/50-amp back-ins, paved 30/50-amp back-ins, paved 30-amp pull-throughs, and paved 30/50-amp pull-throughs, carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 90 feet. The grass-versus-paved distinction is useful — paved sites hold up better in Florida's wet season. Seven primitive tent sites cover simpler camping. Laundry, restrooms, showers, and WiFi handle the practical side, with on-site dining for meals. An outdoor pool anchors the on-site recreation, with a playground and walking trails across the grounds. The real draw is what surrounds the property: snorkeling, scuba diving, swimming, and fishing in the spring system, with hiking and boating nearby. Pets are welcome. High Springs sits in Alachua County amid one of the highest concentrations of first-magnitude freshwater springs in the world — natural limestone vents producing millions of gallons of 68-degree water daily, creating some of the most remarkable aquatic environments in North America. Gainesville's university culture is east, the Suwannee River's cypress-shaded corridor north, and a state park is close by. The resort is open year-round. Summer spring-diving season and the mild winter months both draw steadily — reserve ahead for holiday weekends.

from $40/night

Sun Retreats Ocala Orange Lake

28 RV Sites, 5 Cottages

Sun Retreats Ocala Orange Lake in Citra, Florida, offers 28 full-hookup RV sites and five cottages in Marion County horse country, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 50 feet, open all year behind a gated entrance. Elite and premium back-in and pull-through categories join a standard tier, with boat docks, mini-golf, a pool, and fitness center. Twenty-eight sites span elite back-in, elite pull-thru, premium back-in, premium pull-thru, and standard back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Five tiers give real budget range for a park this size. Five cottages round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with boat docks and boat rentals opening the lake for boating and fishing. Mini-golf, a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, game room, library, sports courts, tennis, pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, billiards, basketball, horseshoes, golf cart rentals, a dog park, and bar fill the rest, with planned activities through the season. The property operates as a wedding venue, and wine tasting and a golf course are nearby. Citra sits where the Ocala National Forest's sandhill scrub meets the thoroughbred farms that the limestone-rich Floridan Aquifer sustains — the most productive horse breeding country in the hemisphere, with Ocala and Gainesville both close. Winter and spring drive demand as snowbirds fill north central Florida and the equestrian calendar peaks. Reserve well ahead for January through April.

from $40/night

The RV Resort at Orange Lake

136 RV Sites

The RV Resort at Orange Lake in Citra, Florida, offers 136 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service in back-in and pull-through configurations, with a lazy river, water park, boat ramp, and boat docks on the lake. On-site dining and a clubhouse sit in the heart of North Central Florida's thoroughbred country. One hundred thirty-six sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and a pavilion handle the practical side. A lazy river and water park anchor the summer, with an outdoor pool alongside. A boat ramp and boat docks give direct access to Orange Lake for boating and fishing, with pickleball, shuffleboard, corn hole, a clubhouse, dog park, and on-site dining filling the grounds. Birding along the lake is productive. Pets are welcome. The setting surprises visitors expecting the coastal or theme-park Florida they have seen advertised. This is thoroughbred horse country — rolling pastures shaded by centuries-old live oaks, iconic horse farms training on open tracks, and the pastoral calm of the Ocala region at its most quietly beautiful. Citra sits squarely between Ocala and Gainesville. The resort serves the North Central Florida season. Winter and spring draw the heaviest demand as snowbirds fill the state and the horse country's breeding and sales calendar peaks, with the lake recreation carrying summer. Reserve ahead for January through April.

Southern Hammock

63 RV Sites

Southern Hammock in Reddick, Florida, offers 60 full-hookup RV sites two miles off I-75 in the heart of Marion County horse country, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted up to 100 feet, open all year. Platinum, Premier, Deluxe Plus, Nature View, and transient categories join an outdoor pool, fitness center, clubhouse, and pickleball courts. Sixty sites span Deluxe Plus, Deluxe transient, Nature View, Platinum, and Premier categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 100 feet. Sites come in various sizes and accommodate everything from the smallest teardrop to the largest Class A towing a car — 100 feet is exceptional capacity, and the dedicated transient tier is a useful distinction for one-night stops. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a fitness center, clubhouse, sports courts, pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, corn hole, a pond, and dog park filling the grounds. Planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. Marion County is the most productive thoroughbred breeding ground in the Western Hemisphere — more than 900 horse farms on limestone-underlain pasture, with the World Equestrian Center drawing international competition. Reddick sits between Ocala and Gainesville at Exit 368, which puts the farms, the springs, and both cities within easy reach. Winter and spring drive the heaviest demand as snowbirds fill north central Florida and the equestrian calendar peaks. Reserve well ahead for January through April.

from $70/night

Silver Springs RV Park

192 RV Sites

Silver Springs RV Park in Silver Springs, FL, offers 193 full-hookup pull-thru RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 105 feet. Sites come in two categories, basic 30-amp pull-thrus and premium 30/50-amp pull-thrus, both carrying water, sewer, and electric. Every site is a pull-thru, so nothing needs unhitching, and at 105 feet the park takes rigs longer than almost anything in central Florida. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, propane fills, a clubhouse, a craft room, and a game room cover the practical side. Pets are welcome. An outdoor pool, ping pong, bocce, shuffleboard, live music, and planned activities fill the grounds, under a canopy of tropical palms and live oaks. The park sits at 3151 NE 56th Avenue, 8.6 miles east of I-75 via the Silver Springs Boulevard exit at 352, minutes from Silver Springs State Park — one of Florida's oldest and most visited natural attractions — in the heart of the Ocala region. Rates for basic and premium sites are on the booking page. Winter season books far in advance, and the premium 30/50-amp pull-thrus go first.

from $62 $54/night

Dreamin' 'n' Driftin' RV Resort

Dreamin' 'n' Driftin' RV Resort in Lake City, Florida, is a brand-new facility on 35 acres in Columbia County — a full-hookup pull-through campground with modern resort amenities at the I-10 and I-75 interchange that positions guests at the gateway to north-central Florida's extraordinary spring and river recreation corridor. Lake City's crossroads location between the Suwannee River, the Ichetucknee River, and the Osceola National Forest gives guests who stop for more than a single night the freshwater spring access, tubing, and natural Florida character that the crystal-clear spring systems of the Columbia and Hamilton County landscape provide in their most accessible and most spectacular form. Spacious full-hookup pull-through sites, a swimming pool, and the comprehensive modern amenities of a brand-new resort facility give guests the complete practical base for north-central Florida spring exploration from an I-10/I-75 location that makes Lake City one of the most practically accessible campgrounds in the state for travelers on Florida's primary north-south and east-west interstate corridors. The 35-acre property's new infrastructure — roads, utilities, and site layout built to current standards — gives big-rig operators and long-term guests the facility quality that new construction provides in a region where the campground inventory's age often works against comfortable modern RV sizes. Pets are welcome. Ichetucknee Springs State Park, approximately 30 miles west of Lake City in Columbia and Suwannee Counties, protects the Ichetucknee River's nine first-magnitude springs — springs that discharge a combined 233 million gallons of 68-degree water daily through a five-mile river corridor of extraordinary clarity, aquatic vegetation, and wildlife density that is simply one of the finest natural tubing and snorkeling experiences in the United States. The park's summer tubing operation from June through Labor Day manages the river access to protect the spring ecosystem while sustaining the float experience through two-hour and full-day tube floats that reveal successive springs, wildlife, and the specific sensory quality of cold, clear spring water in a North Florida summer. The Suwannee River, winding west of Lake City toward the Gulf, is one of the iconic rivers of the American South — immortalized in Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home" (Florida's state song), a genuine wilderness river whose tannin-dark water through cypress and live oak bottomland gives paddlers the specific blackwater Florida character that the spring-fed rivers contrast with in the same north-central Florida landscape. Canoe and kayak travel on the Suwannee through the Big Shoals section north of White Springs — Florida's only significant whitewater — provides the most adventurous paddling in the state's otherwise flat river network. Dreamin' 'n' Driftin' RV Resort serves guests year-round in Lake City's north Florida climate, where the spring and fall seasons from March through May and September through November deliver the most comfortable outdoor recreation conditions and the summer months bring the primary Ichetucknee tubing season that drives Columbia County's most intensive visitor activity. The Osceola National Forest, northeast of Lake City, provides upland pine and cypress dome hunting and wildlife viewing access for guests extending their north Florida stay into the national forest's 157,000 acres of managed public land. Reserve sites ahead for the summer Ichetucknee tubing season and the winter snowbird period when north Florida's mild climate draws the seasonal visitor market from the northeastern and Midwestern states.

Sun Resorts & Residences Southern Leisure

440 RV Sites, 5 Cottages

Southern Leisure in Chiefland, FL, offers 441 full-hookup RV sites and 5 cottages, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 50 feet. Sites come in three categories — standard full-hookup, standard full-hookup pull-through, and oversize full-hookup pull-through — all carrying water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with site-delivered WiFi, on concrete pads. This is a gated 55+ community, open all year and rated big rig friendly. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a dump station, on-site dining, and golf cart rentals cover the practical side. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. The amenity list matches the scale: an Olympic-size outdoor pool, a clubhouse, a recreation center, a game room, sport courts, pickleball, bocce, shuffleboard, corn hole, live music, and planned activities, with creek frontage on the property. Chiefland sits on Northwest 21st Avenue, eight miles east of Manatee Springs State Park in the spring-fed Big Bend region of Florida. Golf, boating, a beach, and a lake are all nearby, and hot air ballooning and wine tasting round out the local calendar. Rates for sites and cottages are on the booking page. Confirm the 55+ requirement, and reserve early for the winter season.

from $49/night

Crescent Fish Camp

16 RV Sites, 4 Cottages, 1 House, 2 Tiny Houses

Crescent Fish Camp in Crescent City, Florida, offers 16 full-hookup RV sites and seven cottage, house, and tiny house units on Crescent Lake, with 30 and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 70 feet. Ultra-Deluxe and Deluxe Sunrise categories join pool front and pull-through tiers, with a marina, boat ramp, fishing pier, and kayak rentals. Sixteen sites span 30/50-amp pool front, 30/50-amp pull-through full hookup, 30-amp sites one through six, Deluxe Sunrise, and Ultra-Deluxe Sunrise categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits and BBQ pits. Naming the premium tiers Sunrise tells you which way they face, and 70 feet accommodates a long coach with a tow. Accessible sites are available. Seven cottages, houses, and tiny houses round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. A marina, boat ramp, fishing pier, and kayak rentals open the lake for boating, canoeing, kayaking, and fishing, with an outdoor pool, fitness center, clubhouse, pavilion, playground, dog park, biking, and picnicking filling the rest. Planned activities run through the season, and the property operates as a wedding venue. The address is 100 Grove Avenue on Crescent Lake's southern shore. The lake covers 15,000 acres in the St. Johns River watershed, and the bass and speck fishing in the northeast Florida interior is genuinely good and far less pressured than the famous waters south. Winter and spring drive the heaviest demand. Book well ahead for January through April.

from $40/night

Sun Outdoors St. Augustine

98 RV Sites, 4 Park Models

Sun Outdoors St. Augustine in Florida offers 98 full-hookup RV sites and four park models on wooded land 4.6 miles from the historic downtown, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 75 feet, open all year behind a gated entrance. Elite, patio, premium, and cozy categories join back-in and pull-through tiers, with an outdoor pool, fitness center, and clubhouse. Ninety-eight sites span cozy full hookup, elite back-in, patio back-in, patio pull-thru, premium back-in, and premium pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 75 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The cozy tier keeps a lower-priced option available for smaller rigs, and the patio categories add outdoor living space. Seventy-five feet accommodates a long coach with a tow. Four park models and resort-style vacation rentals round out the lodging. A laundry, propane fills, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The property was formerly Compass RV Resort. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with a fitness center, clubhouse, walking trails, a lake, playground, and dog park filling the grounds. Fishing, swimming, corn hole, picnicking, and planned activities round it out. Pets are welcome. The resort sits off State Road 207 near I-95, which makes the drive into town straightforward. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the United States, and the historic district, Castillo de San Marcos, and the beaches are all close. Spring and the winter snowbird months drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $56/night

Heritage Oaks RV Resort

80 RV Sites

Heritage Oaks RV Resort near Live Oak, Florida, offers 81 full-hookup RV sites among mature live oaks, with rigs accepted to 80 feet, behind a gated entrance. Park Side back-in and pull-through categories join deluxe pull-through and standard back-in tiers, with a pool, hot tub, clubhouse, and pickleball courts. Eighty-one sites run in back-in standard, back-in Park Side, pull-through Park Side, and pull-through deluxe categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 80 feet. Eighty feet handles the longest coaches with a tow, which is generous for a north Florida property. Contact the resort to confirm amp service for your rig before booking. A laundry, gated entrance, and food trucks handle the practical side. One thing to know up front: the resort is still expanding, and construction noise may be present during your stay. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor the property, with a clubhouse, game room, arcade, sports courts, pickleball, basketball, billiards, a playground, pond, and dog park filling the grounds. Live music runs through the season. Pets are welcome. Suwannee County sits in the live oak and longleaf pine country of north-central Florida, where the Suwannee River runs dark-stained through limestone springs and hardwood hammocks — one of the least developed river corridors left in the state. The mature oaks give the resort the visual character its name promises. Winter and spring draw the heaviest demand as snowbirds fill north Florida, with the springs season carrying summer. Reserve ahead for January through April.

from $65/night

Flamingo Lake Sun RV Communities

108 RV Sites, 10 Cabins

Flamingo Lake in Jacksonville, FL, offers 108 full-hookup RV sites and 10 cabins, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 45 feet. Sites are named for their position on the water: deluxe pull-through full-hookup, lakefront full-hookup, and luxury lakefront full-hookup. All carry water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. If you booked here before, note the name change: Flamingo Lake RV Resort is now simply Flamingo Lake. Laundry, a general store, propane fills and exchange, a dump station, and on-site dining cover the practical side. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, a fitness center, a clubhouse, a pavilion, a beach, horseshoes, paddle boats, live music, and planned activities fill the grounds, with swimming, boating, and fishing on the lake. Flamingo Lake sits on Newcomb Road in north Jacksonville, fifteen minutes from downtown and the First Coast beaches. Rates for sites and cabins are on the booking page. Luxury lakefront sites are the premium spots and book first.

from $45/night