Help with Az to Florida trip next Winter
Hoping for all your experiences please. I have a bunch of subscribed threads on this, and searched, but still can't find what we are looking for. Next Winter, we plan on hoofing it the day after Ch...
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Working your way down the Florida Peninsula I'd look into staying at one or more Florida State parks at a spring, they certainly don't have anything like it in Arizona. Manatee, Rainbow, Wakula or Silver Springs State Park are all great. FSP
Make reservations early for any of those since they fill up for the winter season. I think most of them let you make reservations one year in advanced.
Homosassa SP is a good one to stop at for a guaranteed up close view of Manatees. They keep injured Manatees in the park, ones that are too damaged to go back into the wild. No camping there IIRC. Manatee Springs is a place where you will likely see wild manatees at that time of the year. Blue Springs near Deland is another good place for wild manatees and they do have camping.
Any place below Orlando or near a coast line will likely jack up their prices for the winter season.
Further south the state parks in the Keys have reservations snapped up withing hours or days of them being made available. There are a number of beach side state park camp grounds, mainly on the Atlantic coast and the area near Destin in the panhandle
Make reservations early for any of those since they fill up for the winter season. I think most of them let you make reservations one year in advanced.
Homosassa SP is a good one to stop at for a guaranteed up close view of Manatees. They keep injured Manatees in the park, ones that are too damaged to go back into the wild. No camping there IIRC. Manatee Springs is a place where you will likely see wild manatees at that time of the year. Blue Springs near Deland is another good place for wild manatees and they do have camping.
Any place below Orlando or near a coast line will likely jack up their prices for the winter season.
Further south the state parks in the Keys have reservations snapped up withing hours or days of them being made available. There are a number of beach side state park camp grounds, mainly on the Atlantic coast and the area near Destin in the panhandle
