Why you can't get into the Fl Keys state parks

Camping: It ain't for sissies!

Dog Folks wrote:
It is simple math

Great! I had to learn electrify, metrology, hundreds of rules about parking in big box store parking lots, gas station navigation, and Emily Post's entire writings on campground etiquette so I could enjoy my hobby. And now you telling me I have to use math to go RVing!

Years ago, I told Algebra I didn't know where his X was and I didn't know when she was coming back, so please leave me alone.

This camping stuff are hard.

LynnandCarol wrote:
The reason it is sooooo difficult to get a site is the numerous folks sitting and waiting for their date to arrive to get a site. Some folks have multiple people (with multiple computers) trying at once. My wife and I used two Laptops a few years ago. Some families enlisted 5-7 folks for one date/one site. When we arrived at our site and spoke to various folks, most of them told us their method..lol It should probably go to a lottery system!

Having been shut out three winters in a row now, am considering offering a $100 bounty to anyone who can get me into a 42' or bigger waterfront site at Bahia Honda.

Of course, since the going rate is apparently $900, I doubt I'll have any takers. ;)

NanciL wrote:
I have read with interest and see lots of complaints about not being able to get sites in the four state parks in the Florida Keys, and I can give you one of the reasons why:
Take a stroll through any one of them or all of them and see the cheaters that lie about the length of their rigs.
At least fifty percent if not more don't belong in the sites they are in and the park rangers do absolutely nothing about it
If the lengths were monitored a bit, there would be a lot more spaces available for rigs that fit them.

Jack L

I'm coming a bit late to this party (thread), but here goes:

Unfortunately, ReserveAmerica has done a major disservice to those of us who utilize the FL state campgrounds reservation site by listing unreasonably short "limits" on many of the sites.

We talked with a half dozen cg personnel this winter who told us that RA arbitrarily reduced the site size "limit" (which is really just a recommendation, btw, and not a hard and fast rule) on many of their sites.

They've also shortened "limits" on some sites just because they're not as easy to get to for some larger rigs.

I do agree that no one should be allowed to park into the roadway or on the grass, and I DO wish park personnel would put more effort into enforcing this rule for safety's sake.

However, I'm offended at being called a "cheater" if we park our 42' camper in a 60+ foot-long site that RA has, for no valid reason, listed as having a 40' limit.

Dog Folks wrote:

Executive wrote:
Do any of the Florida State Parks in the Keys have sewer hookups?

Yes. John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park has them now after a recent renovation.

Statewide, the Florida park system is phasing in sewers in all the campgrounds. It is a good thing.

One of the reasons I rarely leave the state and camp almost exclusively with the FSP system.

Thanks for the info

I just had to delete what I had originally posted here because it was totally wrong. I just realized that Pennekamp does list site lengths on Reserve America when you click on the campsite list tab.

:W

rockhillmanor wrote:

At least fifty percent if not more don't belong in the sites they are in and the park rangers do absolutely nothing about it

That is because there is NO rule regarding what size RV is parked on a site that a park ranger would be involved in.

When I pay for a site.......I pay the CG for the 'site', NOT the size of my RV.

You can park whatever you want on the site you pay for. If a camper wants to pay more for a site that is bigger that's their business not yours. :W

Thank You:)

Executive wrote:
Do any of the Florida State Parks in the Keys have sewer hookups?

Yes. John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park has them now after a recent renovation.

Statewide, the Florida park system is phasing in sewers in all the campgrounds. It is a good thing.