Florida RV parks

There's PLENTY of room this time of year in Florida!

It's called "South Texas."

I have to agree with Koda. Most State Parks are on a full reservation system. The exceptions say so on their individual web pages.

National Forest CGs, like Salt Springs in the Ocala NF, are mostly walk-up.

For state parks I use Reserve America to check the parks in the state I want to go to. You can check and see what is available and what size.

Not impossible but the further south you go the more likely the inn will be full. SE FL is very difficult this time of year and the west coast, even with its many more options is also pretty full. The further north you go the more likely it is you'll find something.

Some places reserve sites for daily, others only long term. So ask when you call you might be surprised when they say they don't have availability if you say " we want a site for a night" but might have something for a month or vice versa.

Well, one thing is for sure - they all have a phone number that you can call and ask.

I live in Florida and camp at state parks many times a year. Many parks DO NOT
set back walk up sites. The ones that do, like Bahia Honda, have waiting lines every
Morning.

Most parks hold back a few sites for "walk-ins." The number of sites varies by the park.

There are NO guarantees that one of these sites will be available when you arrive. It is strictly first come, first pay, basis.

If you want a site for sure, make a reservation.

2012Coleman wrote:

wny_pat wrote:
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.

This is true - I experienced it first hand at Silver River State park over Labor Day. I enquired about the empty spot near me and was told what is stated above. But I don't think that a lot of people know about this as the CG had 2 or 3 empty spots all weekend long.

ditto x2
I was using the State Park just to dump my MH while staying at friends during the height of Snowbird Season and inquired about open spots!! They aslo said I didn't have to go thru reserve america either to pay if you pull in and want to stay. Only for reservations for the future.

I sure wasnt' aware of this after reading all the posts here that you HAD to reserve sites at SP.

wny_pat wrote:
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.

This is true - I experienced it first hand at Silver River State park over Labor Day. I enquired about the empty spot near me and was told what is stated above. But I don't think that a lot of people know about this as the CG had 2 or 3 empty spots all weekend long.

I've never had a problem finding short term space in combined RV/trailer parks in small cities north of the Tampa area, away from the Kissimmee-Orlando-Daytona metroplex, and at least 15-20 miles in from the coast. Sometimes you can get even closer to the coast, and there is so much RV space around WDW that any overnight is pretty easy, but expensive.

Looking for space in a resort around Fort Myers, you should probably already be booked. The Keys, you might be waiting for someone already there to die.

State parks, forest campsites, I don't know, haven't tried, there are reservation systems to keep the parks booked up even when not full, and stays are limited.