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Where can I camp with an RV in Florida?

Florida's state parks have full-facility campsites with water, electricity, a grill and a picnic table; the longest RV allowed varies by park.

Book online at reserve.floridastateparks.org or by phone at 800-326-3521, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Florida residents may reserve up to 11 months ahead and others up to 10 months, and in busy seasons a stay is limited to 14 nights. A reservation costs $6.70, a cancellation $17.75 and a change $10; check-in is at 3 p.m. and check-out at 1 p.m., with up to 8 people on a site.

Inland campgrounds on springs and rivers include Blue Spring State Park in Volusia County, with 51 campsites with water, electricity and a grill, for RVs up to 40 feet; Manatee Springs in Levy County, with 80 campsites in three loops with water and electric and a dump station; Rainbow Springs in Marion County, on the Rainbow River, where every site has water, 20, 30 and 50 amp electric and sewer; and Myakka River in Sarasota County, with 90 campsites in three campgrounds and sewer hookups at Palmetto Ridge.

Florida residents 65 or older, and residents with a Social Security disability award or a 100 percent federal disability award, can get a free permit that takes 50 percent off base campsite fees for the holder and one companion. The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission also books campsites on wildlife management areas, mostly primitive and seasonal, among them Three Lakes, Tosohatchee, J.W. Corbett, Herky Huffman/Bull Creek, Babcock/Webb, Jones/Hungryland and Fisheating Creek.

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A tent on the grass beside Florida Bay at Flamingo Campground in Everglades National Park.01

Where can you camp on the coast in Florida?

Camping on the sand itself is not permitted in Florida, but a number of parks put you a short walk behind the dune, and those sites book out months ahead.

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An aerial view of Bahia Honda Key, most of it Bahia Honda State Park, with the old railroad bridge and the turquoise shallows around it.02

Which Florida state parks are worth a whole day?

Florida has one of the larger state park systems in the country and a dozen or so carry a full day on their own.

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Is there a Florida state parks annual pass?

Yes. The Individual Annual Entrance Pass is $60 and the Family Annual Entrance Pass $120, good for one year from the month you buy it; the family pass lets in up to eight people entering together.

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Swimmers in the spring pool at Juniper Springs in the Ocala National Forest.04

Which Florida springs can you swim in?

Florida has more first-magnitude springs than anywhere else on earth, and most of them run at about seventy-two degrees every day of the year, so they are cold in August and warm in January.

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How do you visit Everglades National Park?

By car, through one of three entrances in three different cities, which do not connect to each other inside the park: the Homestead entrance, which leads down the main park road to Flamingo on the coast; the Miami entrance at Shark Valley, with trails, an observation tower and tram tours; and the Everglades City entrance on the Gulf coast, for boat tours and the mangrove waterways.

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