Glamping near Carrabelle, Florida

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

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.

Okefenokee Pastimes Cabins and Campground

35 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 16 Tent Sites, 4 Glamping Sites

Okefenokee Pastimes in Folkston, GA, offers 35 full-hookup RV sites, 5 cabins, 16 tent sites, and 4 glamping sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 75 feet. Sites come in three RV categories — back-in, partial pull-through, and full pull-through — plus premium tent sites. All carry water, sewer, and electric. At 75 feet the pull-throughs take long coaches. The property is open all year, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills, a dump station, a recreation center, and on-site dining. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. The standout amenity is a dark sky astronomy field — this corner of Georgia has almost no light pollution, and the campground built for it. A pond, walking trails, sport courts, basketball, pickleball, and a playground fill the rest, with fishing and birding on the property. Folkston sits just outside the main entrance to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge — 400,000 acres of blackwater swamp, one of the largest intact freshwater wetlands in North America. Rates for every accommodation type are on the booking page. New moon weekends draw the astronomy crowd and book early.

from $21/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 $75/night

Timberline Glamping at Orange Beach

10 Glamping Sites

Timberline Glamping at Orange Beach offers spacious, safari-style glamping tents inside Gulf State Park on Alabama's Gulf Coast — an immersive coastal camping experience in Baldwin County's Orange Beach that gives guests real beds, air conditioning, and generous outdoor seating in furnished canvas tents positioned within one of Alabama's most beautiful state parks, steps from the Gulf of Mexico's white sand beaches, 24 miles of public parkland shoreline, and the recreational infrastructure of the Gulf Shore-Orange Beach coastal resort community that the Alabama Gulf Coast sustains as the most accessible major beach vacation destination in the Deep South. The Gulf State Park setting gives Timberline the combination of state park natural environment and beach access that a hotel or private resort property in the Orange Beach corridor cannot replicate. Safari-style glamping tents with real beds, air conditioning, and ample outdoor seating give Timberline Glamping the comfortable outdoor overnight character that specifically serves the beach family who wants the Gulf State Park nature setting without the tent-camping infrastructure requirements — the air conditioning gives the tents the summer heat management that the Alabama Gulf Coast's July and August temperatures make essential, and the real beds give the guests the morning-back recovery that an inflatable air mattress consistently denies the beach-day-fatigued camper. The Gulf State Park address gives guests the park's amenity access. Pets are welcome. Gulf State Park encompasses 6,150 acres of Alabama Gulf Coast from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Shelby in Baldwin County — a state park with the most diverse habitat mix on the Alabama coast, including the Gulf beach and dune system, the freshwater Lake Shelby and Lake Shelby Fishing Pier, the Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail system's 28 miles of paved paths through the coastal scrub and longleaf pine restoration forest, and the Gulf State Park Resort Lodge's conference and dining facilities. The park's two miles of public beach between the Orange Beach resort development's private beach infrastructure give it specific public access value in a county where private resort construction has claimed most of the shoreline. The Orange Beach and Gulf Shores resort corridor, extending from Fort Morgan Peninsula west through Gulf Shores to the Alabama-Florida line east through Orange Beach, sustains the largest concentration of beach resort accommodation in Alabama — a 32-mile stretch of white quartz sand beaches on the Gulf of Mexico with the water activity concessions, charter fishing fleet at the Orange Beach Marina, and the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo's educational animal experience that give the Gulf Shore area the complete beach vacation programming range. The Wharf at Orange Beach, an entertainment and dining complex on the Intracoastal Waterway, extends the evening and wet-weather programming beyond the beach day. Timberline Glamping at Orange Beach serves guests through the Alabama Gulf Coast season, with the summer peak from Memorial Day through Labor Day representing the highest beach recreation demand and the spring and fall shoulder seasons from March through May and September through November providing the most comfortable temperatures for the Gulf State Park's trail system and the beach walking that the summer heat limits. The fall mullet migration through the passes and the fall inshore fishing for redfish and speckled trout sustain the angling visitor market through the shoulder season that family beach camping transitions away from. Reserve glamping tents well ahead for summer weekends and the Memorial Day and Labor Day holiday weekends when Orange Beach accommodation fills at capacity from the Southeast and Midwest drive-to beach market.

from $154/night

Timberline Glamping at Hillsborough River

Timberline Glamping at Hillsborough River brings luxury tent accommodations to the banks of the Hillsborough River in Thonotosassa, Florida, operating within one of the Tampa Bay area's most distinctive natural parks. The timberline glamping experience trades the standard campsite for thoughtfully furnished canvas tents that combine the setting of a Florida state park with the comfort level of a boutique hotel—an approach that opens genuine outdoor immersion to guests who wouldn't otherwise consider sleeping under canvas. Deluxe Bell Tents offer 200 square feet with a queen bed, hotel-quality linens, air conditioning and heating, a mini refrigerator, Keurig coffee maker, beautiful home décor, electrical outlets, and diffusers. Double Safari Tents scale up to 320 square feet with two queen beds and the same comfort amenities. Each glampsite surrounds the tent with outdoor elements that make the landscape part of the stay: a hammock under tree canopy, a private fire pit, a charcoal grill with cooking grate, string lights, camp chairs, a picnic table, and cornhole—all within the park's natural setting along the Hillsborough River. Shared bathrooms and showers are within easy walking distance. Hillsborough River State Park provides the natural infrastructure that makes this hillsborough river glamping location so compelling. The park protects one of the few class II river rapids in Florida—a rarity in a state defined by flat, slow-moving waterways—and the rapids are navigable by kayak for paddlers who enjoy moving water. Suspension bridges cross the river at scenic points, and trails wind through hammock forest and along the river's edge through terrain dominated by live oaks, cypress, and cabbage palms. Historic picnic pavilions built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s add a layer of heritage to a landscape that feels remarkably unchanged. Tampa lies roughly 15 miles west of the park, giving Timberline guests easy access to a full urban day trip without sacrificing the natural setting. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is about 20 minutes away for families who want a theme park afternoon, and Ybor City's historic Latin Quarter provides distinctive dining and nightlife with genuine cultural character. The Florida Aquarium, Lowry Park Zoo, and the downtown Tampa Riverwalk extend the day-trip possibilities for guests based at the river. Hillsborough River's quiet morning light and the sound of the rapids at night provide a counterpoint to the city that makes this one of the more satisfying one-foot-in-two-worlds camping experiences in central Florida. Timberline Glamping at Hillsborough River operates year-round in Florida's climate, though the fall-through-spring window offers the most comfortable outdoor temperatures for sitting by the fire pit and spending extended time outside. Summer brings the lush rainy-season greenery and warm water for swimming, along with the afternoon thunderstorms that are part of any honest Florida summer experience. Reservations book quickly for holiday weekends and spring break, and the combination of proximity to Tampa with the genuine park immersion the tents provide makes this a popular option for both couples and families looking for something beyond the standard Florida resort.

from $105/night