Lodging rentals near Arcadia, Florida

Shell Creek Sun RV Communities

154 RV Sites, 1 Cottage

Shell Creek in Punta Gorda, Florida, is a 55-plus community offering 154 full-hookup RV sites and a cottage with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet, open all year. A 24-slip marina, outdoor pool, hot tub, and fitness center sit on the banks of Shell Creek in Charlotte County. One hundred fifty-four standard full-hookup back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with picnic tables. The sites are spacious, and the 30- and 50-amp service covers most rigs comfortably. A cottage rounds out the lodging. A laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and recycling handle the practical side. The marina is the distinguishing amenity — 24 slips giving direct waterway access to the Peace River and Charlotte Harbor beyond. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor daily recreation, with a fitness center, recreation center, game room, and on-site dining besides. Pickleball, shuffleboard, billiards, horseshoes, a beach, and a dog park fill the grounds, with boating, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and water sports from the creek. Pets are welcome. Shell Creek's freshwater-to-brackish transition supports genuinely varied fishing, and Charlotte Harbor is among the most productive estuaries on the Gulf Coast. Winter is decisively the season for Florida's 55-plus communities. Book well ahead for January through March, when snowbird demand fills the Charlotte County corridor.

from $55/night

Myakka River RV Resort

24 RV Sites, 2 Tent Sites, 21 Park Models

Myakka River RV Resort in North Port, FL, offers 24 full-hookup RV sites, 21 park models, and 2 tent sites, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 66 feet. Sites come in three categories — 30/50-amp deluxe waterfront, 30/50-amp preserve, and 30/50-amp pull-thru preserve — all carrying water, sewer, electric, and cable TV with a picnic table. The resort is rated big rig friendly and the 66-foot maximum takes long coaches. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a clubhouse, a pavilion, propane fills and exchange, a dump station, and on-site recycling round it out. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, walking trails, horseshoes, live music, and boat rentals fill the calendar, with kayaking, fishing, biking, hiking, and birding along the river. Golf and the Gulf beaches are nearby. The resort sits directly on the Myakka River in Sarasota County, where the blackwater flow through flatwood prairie, cypress swamp, and tropical hammock makes this the most wildlife-rich river corridor in southwest Florida. Rates for sites and park models are on the booking page. Deluxe waterfront sites are limited and book earliest for the winter season.

from $50/night

Sun Outdoors Sarasota

215 RV Sites, 94 Cottages

Sun Outdoors Sarasota offers 215 full-hookup RV sites and 94 cottages on Florida's Gulf Coast, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet behind a gated entrance. Cozy through elite categories join a mega water slide, splash pad, hot tub, fitness complex, and more than 150 scheduled activities, open all year. Two hundred fifteen sites span cozy, deluxe, deluxe pull-through, elite, and premium full hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with picnic tables. The five-tier structure makes matching site to budget straightforward. Ninety-four cottages round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, and restrooms handle the practical side. The property was formerly Sun N Fun RV Resort. The activity density is the claim and the amenity set backs it. Indoor and outdoor pools, a mega water slide, splash pad, hot tub, and sauna anchor the water side, with a fitness complex, art studio, craft room, mini-golf, disc golf course, and arcade besides. Pickleball, tennis, bocce ball, shuffleboard, volleyball, horseshoes, and billiards fill the courts, with a poolside bar and grill, on-site dining, live music, and a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. Sarasota's resort corridor, Gulf beaches, and wineries are all close, with a golf course nearby. Winter is decisively the season on the Gulf Coast. Book well ahead for January through March.

from $47/night

Sun Resorts & Residences Pleasant Lake

25 RV Sites, 6 Lodges

Stay at Pleasant Lake RV Resort and enjoy access to a private, 25-acre lake in the center of our grounds. Our gated, 55+ community features more than 339 full-hookup RV sites on the stunning west coast of Florida. Take off from boat launch to go enjoy sailing and freshwater fishing. Stroll along the water's edge or enjoy a pleasant afternoon with friends playing bocce ball, shuffleboard, or horseshoes. During the high season, our guests also enjoy potluck dinners, shows, and game nights. Don't have an RV? We offer Florida vacation rentals and permanent home sales for your convenience.

from $64/night

Fisheating Creek Outpost

44 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 69 Tent Sites

Fisheating Creek Outpost in Palmdale, FL, offers 44 full-hookup RV sites, 1 cabin, and 69 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 50 feet. Sites come in three types — standard back-in, back-in 30-amp, and ADA back-in — all carrying water, sewer, and electric with a fire pit and picnic table. With 69 tent sites against 44 RV sites, this is a paddling and camping outpost first. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, on-site dining, and a recreation center cover the essentials. Pets are welcome. One genuine safety note: this is alligator country, and Florida Fish and Wildlife asks visitors to stay alert near any fresh or brackish water. Kayak, boat, and bike rentals, a boat ramp, a beach, a pond, a pavilion, and walking trails support fishing, paddling, paddle boarding, paddle boats, swimming, hiking, biking, and birding. Palmdale sits in Glades County on Fisheating Creek — one of the last free-flowing undammed creek systems in South Florida, flowing northwest into Lake Okeechobee through cypress and supporting sandhill cranes, limpkins, bass, and catfish. Rates for every site type are on the booking page. Winter paddling season fills first.

Sun Resorts & Residences Buttonwood Bay

48 RV Sites, 13 Cottages

Sun Resorts & Residences Buttonwood Bay in Sebring, FL, offers 48 full-hookup RV sites and 13 cottages, with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites accommodating rigs up to 42 feet. Sites come in premium and standard full-hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with a picnic table at the site. This is a 55+ community, gated, and open all year, with RV and boat storage available on the property. Laundry, bathhouse, a general store, and a dump station handle the practical side, and WiFi covers the resort. Pets are welcome, with a dog park on site. The amenity list is unusually deep. An outdoor pool, fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse-style game room, library, and craft room fill the indoor calendar, while bocce, pickleball, tennis, shuffleboard, horseshoes, billiards, and mini-golf fill the outdoor one. A boat ramp, fishing pier, and lake and pond frontage put anglers on the water, and walking trails circle the grounds. Planned activities run regularly, and golf is nearby. Sebring sits in the heart of Highlands County bass country, with lakes in every direction and Highlands Hammock State Park's live oak hammock close by. Rates for RV sites and cottages are on the booking page. Winter season books far in advance; reserve early for January through March.

from $44/night

Sun Resorts & Residences Horseshoe Cove

138 RV Sites, 7 Cottages, 1 Apartment

Horseshoe Cove in Bradenton, Florida, offers 138 full-hookup RV sites and eight apartment and cottage units in a waterfront community on the Gulf Coast, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 44 feet behind a gated entrance. Super, standard, value, and standard pull-through categories join a pool, hot tub, fitness center, boat docks, and library. One hundred thirty-eight sites run in value full hookup, standard full hookup, standard full hookup pull-through, and super full hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 44 feet, with picnic tables. The value tier keeps a lower-priced option on the table in a market where waterfront pricing runs high; note the 44-foot cap before booking a larger rig. Eight apartments and cottages round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, showers, and recycling handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor daily recreation, with a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, game room, library, pavilion, and on-site dining besides. Boat docks open the water for boating, canoeing, kayaking, and fishing, with pickleball, sports courts, billiards, shuffleboard, horseshoes, walking trails, and picnicking filling the grounds. There is a large open pet area for long walks, and a state park is nearby. The waterfront setting gives the resort a natural quality uncommon among Florida's densely developed Gulf Coast communities. Winter is decisively the season. Book well ahead for January through March.

from $58/night

Arbor Terrace Sun RV Communities

91 RV Sites, 3 Cottages

Arbor Terrace in Bradenton, Florida, offers 91 full-hookup RV sites and three cottages six miles from the Gulf, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. Super, premium, and cozy full-hookup categories join a pool, fitness center, clubhouse, and pickleball courts in this all-ages community. Ninety-one sites run in cozy, premium, and super full-hookup categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with picnic tables. The three tiers are sized rather than dressed up — cozy for a smaller rig, super for a larger one — which makes matching site to budget straightforward. Three cottages round out the lodging. A laundry, restrooms, showers, and on-site dining handle the practical side. The resort address is 405 57th Avenue West. An outdoor pool anchors daily recreation, with a fitness center, clubhouse, game room, and pavilion besides. Pickleball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, biking, picnicking, a beach, and a dog park fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season and a state park nearby. Pets are welcome. The all-ages designation is worth noting — many Manatee County communities are 55-plus, and this one is not, which broadens who it suits. The Gulf beaches at Anna Maria Island and Longboat Key are six miles west, with Sarasota just south. Winter is decisively the season on Florida's Gulf Coast. January through March fills with snowbirds. Book well ahead for those months, with easier availability through the summer.

from $54/night

Rainbow Sun RV Communities

297 RV Sites, 1 Cottage

Rainbow in Frostproof, Florida, is a 55-plus community offering 297 full-hookup RV sites and a cottage on Crooked Lake, with 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, open all year behind a gated entrance. Elite, premium pull-through, and standard categories join a heated pool, two hot tubs, spa, fitness center, and craft room. Two hundred ninety-seven sites run in standard full hookup, elite full hookup, and premium full hookup pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 50 feet. One thing to check before booking: service is 50-amp throughout, so bring an adapter if your rig runs 30. A cottage rounds out the lodging. A laundry, restrooms, showers, RV storage, personal mailboxes, and a gated entrance handle the practical side. A heated outdoor pool, two hot tubs, and a spa anchor daily recreation, with a fitness center, clubhouse, game room, library, craft room, and pavilion besides. Pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, billiards, horseshoes, corn hole, walking trails, biking, a pond, dog park, and picnicking fill the grounds, with fishing, live music, and a well-organized social calendar through the season. Pets are welcome. Polk County's citrus and lake country is a legitimate alternative to the more crowded coastal snowbird destinations — quieter, less expensive, and genuinely scenic, with Crooked Lake at the door. Winter is decisively the season in Florida's 55-plus communities. January through March fills with snowbirds. Book well ahead for those months, with far easier availability through the summer.

from $52/night

North Lake Sun RV Communities

42 RV Sites, 1 Cottage, 5 Motel Rooms, 5 Apartments

North Lake in Moore Haven, FL, offers 42 full-hookup RV sites plus 11 apartment, cottage, and motel rentals, with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 53 feet. Sites are a single standard full-hookup category, all back-ins carrying water, sewer, and electric. This is a 55+ community, open all year, and guests who don't own an RV can book one of the apartments, cottages, or motel rooms instead. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, and on-site dining cover the practical side. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. The social calendar carries the community: a clubhouse, a recreation center, a game room, a fitness center, a library, a pavilion, sport courts, pickleball, bocce, shuffleboard, corn hole, and planned activities, with swimming, fishing, boating, hiking, and biking on and around the lake. Golf and wine tasting are nearby. Moore Haven sits on the western rim of Lake Okeechobee in Glades County — 730 square miles of water, the second-largest freshwater lake by surface area in the contiguous United States, and one of the country's great largemouth bass fisheries. Rates for sites and rentals are on the booking page. Winter season books far in advance.

from $58/night

Twin Palms Resort

Twin Palms Resort in Okeechobee, Florida, provides a quiet and lakefront-focused camping and resort destination on the shores of Lake Okeechobee—the 730-square-mile freshwater lake known as Florida's Inland Sea—where the outstanding bass fishing, spectacular birding, and the authentic character of a working Florida agricultural community create a distinctively un-commercialized alternative to the state's coastal resort destinations. Positioned in Okeechobee County at the lake's northern rim, the resort serves serious anglers, birding enthusiasts, and outdoor travelers who prioritize access to one of North America's most productive freshwater fisheries over resort-scale amenity programming. The resort provides full hookup RV sites with direct lake access, showers, bathrooms, and a pet-friendly policy in a straightforward lakefront setting where the lake itself constitutes the primary recreation draw. The property's position on Lake Okeechobee gives guests immediate access to the bass fishing, bird watching, and cycling on the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail that define the recreational character of Florida's Inland Sea, and the resort's direct lakefront location eliminates the boat ramp logistics and crowded public access management that characterize recreation on a lake of Okeechobee's regional significance and popularity. Lake Okeechobee's largemouth bass fishery is legendary in American sport fishing—a lake where the shallow, vegetation-rich warm water of the Okeechobee system produces exceptional bass growth rates and the distinctive Florida bass strain that can reach the largest sizes of any largemouth bass in the world. The lake's shallow average depth of approximately nine feet creates extensive emergent vegetation habitat in the lily pads, hydrilla, and cattail marsh communities where bass spawn and the wading birds that make Okeechobee one of the premier birding destinations in the Southeast concentrate in spectacular numbers during winter and spring. The Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, a 110-mile paved path atop the Herbert Hoover Dike that rings the entire lake perimeter, provides cyclists with a remarkable and flat recreational route through the open water and marsh views of the lake's full shoreline without the traffic of the surrounding agricultural roads. Okeechobee's western shore communities of Moore Haven and Clewiston provide additional access points to the lake, and the Okeechobee waterway's passage through the lake connects Atlantic and Gulf coastal Florida in the cross-state boat route that attracts long-distance cruisers navigating the Great Loop. Brighton Seminole Reservation to the southwest provides cultural heritage context for the Seminole Nation's presence in the Okeechobee region. Twin Palms Resort operates year-round in Okeechobee County's subtropical climate, with the winter season from November through March delivering the most comfortable weather for the outdoor activities—fishing, cycling the dike trail, and birding at the lake's marsh edges—that draw visitors to this corner of inland Florida. The bass fishing peaks during the January-through-March spawn season when the largest female bass move to the spawning beds in the shallow lake margins, and the wading bird concentrations at Harney Pond Canal and the lake's northern vegetated shoreline reach maximum density during these same winter months. Summer's heat and humidity reduce visitor traffic but the lake's year-round bass productivity sustains the dedicated fishing community.

Hidden River Sun RV Communities

29 RV Sites, 3 Cottages

Hidden River in Riverview, FL, offers 29 full-hookup RV sites and 3 cottages, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 50 feet. Sites come in two premium riverside categories, back-in and pull-through, both carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. Every site is riverside. This is a 55+ community, open all year, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, propane fills and exchange, and a dump station. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, a fitness center, a clubhouse, a recreation center, a game room, a library, a pavilion, sport courts, pickleball, volleyball, horseshoes, and a lake fill the grounds, with swimming, fishing, picnicking, and planned activities. Riverview sits at 12500 McMullen Loop Road in Hillsborough County along the Alafia River, 20 minutes southeast of downtown Tampa, with the Gulf beaches of Clearwater and St. Pete an easy drive west. Rates for sites and cottages are on the booking page. Confirm the 55+ requirement, and reserve early for winter — 29 riverside sites go quickly.

from $74/night