Florida RV parks

The state parks have sites available for blind drive ins that are not in the reservation system. But you are going to have to move from site to site to site. And on the weekends they fill right up with locals, and they know how to work the system to get a spot.

Executive wrote:
Yes..! Panhandle is easier than Gulf or Ocean parks. Key West is out...Dennis

Thats because it's cold in the panhandle! We were there the end of February and early March last year and never could wear shorts.

I came down for the winter to Florida for the past 6 years straight with OUT reservations and always found a nice place to stay.

I don't do State Parks so I can only speak of regular CG's not right on top of an attraction.

My strategy is find a nice CG alongside the interstate on my way down to the area you like to stay in and pull in for a night or two and next day make phone calls to surrounding CG's.

BTW: I found almost all CG's always leave several sites open for travelers so finding one to stay at for a few days is no problem to use as your base camp to find a CG to stay for the winter. And the CG owners and campers are a GREAT source for info on surrounding CG's.

Every CG I found had had a snowbird or full timer that had changed their plans due to unsuspected family issues and/or financial or plum just decided to quit coming down south. Which nets a late cancellation call to the CG.

Which leaves ME a long term CG site for the winter. :C

X 4 or 5 on long term being harder than short term. I recently posted that you could still get sites in the Keys but you have to search Google to find them, not the CG guides. Next week we will be in Orlando and will stay at Stage Stop in Winter Garden without even calling for reservations. Well, after posting this I may have to call. Come on down as with a little searching you can find sites in Private CGs but many do not advertise in the CG guides.

Cold in north Georgia??? No it's miserable with 9 degrees and snowing... so my kids say.

We are in central Florida just a bit north of Tampa. Our park is full. If you go further north you will have better luck. The panhandle probably has plenty of vacancies but it's because it's cold.... We are going to the Keys next week. I'll bet you could find a site at Sunshine Key....but it won't be cheap.

We have a site in north GA we'll rent you, but it's cold there too. :)

You can probably find something in Florida. The further north and inland will be your best bet.

Sweetj38 wrote:
Are the RV parks and campgrounds in Florida hard to get into this time of year?

45 year resident and RVer in Florida.
The answer to your question is yes and no.
Most of the state parks are booked up and have a two week max.
You will have little to no problem getting into parks in certain areas.
The choices for nice inexpensive parks will be harder.
The farther north the better the selections.
Try Grand Lakes Resort near Ocala. Bulow Resort near Flagler Beach.
Wekiva Falls Resort near Sanford-Orlando. Wilderness RV Resort in Ocala.
Get on visitflorida.com and start making calls.
You also need to be aware of Speed Weeks, Bike Week and to some degree Spring Break. Feb and March are the peak months.

Rambler's Rest in Venice, FL has some openings depending on your needs, but they are not cheap!

We are selling all our houses too, as this is your Winter of discontent in the Grate Northeast. ( misspelling intended, as it is grating just to see all the snow)Signed, 18 years retired in Florida from upstate NY and loving it.

Jim Shoe wrote:
You won't be likely to find a single park on either coast for the rest of the winter, but you can find many that have openings for a couple of weeks or a month. Some poor souls still have to work and only have vacation time to travel.
You can also find longer term space if you're willing to go inland a bit from either coast, and its cheaper. Just avoid the Disney World area. My parents did it both ways over the years.

Well since the OP neither specified it had to be long term or on the coast specifically then I would say the answer to the OP is NO in general. Now specific CGs or areas such as WDW or KW might be hard any time due to overall popularity. Now if you are looking at popular snowbird oriented parks then the answer would obviously be YES.

Larry

It is hard to find a long stay spot, even inland, this time of year. We are in the Silver Springs area and our resort has just daily and some weekly stays left. There are no monthly or longer sites available. Hasn't been for a while.

I suppose if you are not very choosy some of the older less maintained parks may have some longer stay spots, but in looking at some of them, my advice would be stay away.