Florida RV Park with NO alligators

Santos, Ross Prairie, any other place that does not have a lake or river. Any park on the ocean. Check the activities they offer. If it has canoeing it has water.

Good luck with that. Gators can turn up in the strangest places all over Florida. Same with snakes. Watch where you put your hands and feet. Yesterday, I brought groceries home to the RV. I was met by a 5 foot rat snake hanging on the ladder. Of course there's a couple of gators in the retention ponds at the entrance to the park.

The only gator I ever saw right inside a park was at St. George Island state park. Even though the park is technically on the ocean/Gulf of Mexico, there were two freshwater ponds on the property, and that was just enough fresh water to become home to a pretty good sized gator.

If there is no river, lake, retention pond, canal, or swamp, then there probably is very little likelihood of encountering gators. That does not 100% necessarily mean that there cannot be any, just that you won't probably won't ever encounter one.

Do you have a problem with alligators? Might want to avoid Florida as well as other southern states. Alligators pretty much go wherever they want to. Will cross streets, driveways, whatever going from one wet spot to another or just out for a crawl. Unlike snakes and roaches (now there is a reason to avoid Florida), they are big and you can see them. Good luck in your quest. lizzie

Last trip to Florida, Saw a sign on a pond. "Warming. There are Snakes, and Alligators in every lake and river in Florida" Kind of says it all.

Alligators may occur in any natural or manmade body of water in Florida and will travel some distance on land moving from one to another.

In Florida alligators are like ants. They are everywhere. If your afraid of gators go to another state that doesn't have them.

Alligators have legs. They go for walks. I've seen them in the middle of city street intersections and in the middle of highways. Last year there was one hanging out at the front door of someone's house in the town next to mine. My local YMCA has pictures of one that was wandering around the parking lot hiding under the cars. There was even one INSIDE a school in Tampa last year - someone left a door open and he wandered in early in the morning before classes started. A few years ago there was video of one surfing in onto a beach at Canaveral National Seashore. Everyone had the same question - How did he get out in the ocean ? Made for one hilarious video, though.

I used to think they were just in rural areas but that is the farthest thing from the truth - they turn up just about everywhere.

To the OP - If you look at a map of central Florida you will see what the problem is - There are about a zillion lakes and ponds and retention ponds around here. And the gators don't just hang out at one lake - they travel.

When I moved down here I asked my new vet about letting my dog swim in the lakes and ponds. His reply - 'anywhere there's water, there will probably be an alligator around'. And he's right.

We spent two months at Webster Travel Park, in Webster, FL. They have a wall around the park. I didn't see any critters other than 3 ducks and some small dogs that were walking people around on leashes.

There was one large plastic penquin sitting in a chair waving as we entered.

Oh and some weird people flying flags with red maple leafs on them, don't know what that was all about.

Peg Leg wrote:
We spent two months at Webster Travel Park, in Webster, FL. They have a wall around the park. I didn't see any critters other than 3 ducks and some small dogs that were walking people around on leashes.

There was one large plastic penquin sitting in a chair waving as we entered.

Oh and some weird people flying flags with red maple leafs on them, don't know what that was all about.

How do they let people in to their facility? Can gators walk in from there? Don't laugh. Because that is what they do!