Tent Camping near Big Pine Key, Florida

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.

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.

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