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A campground on a farm at 2248 Culbreath Road, Brooksville, with 15 RV sites carrying twenty, thirty or fifty amp power, water and sewer, plus tent areas with water and separate cabins. Each site has a picnic table, a charcoal grill and a fire ring and takes up to six people. There are restrooms and showers, laundry, a dog park, an activity center and a dock on the lake for fishing.
A private golf and country club at 4200 Summit View Drive in the hills at Brooksville, in a gated community, with villas booked through the club. The eighteen-hole course was laid out by Pete Dye among old oaks and rolling ground. There is a clubhouse with dining, a fitness room, four Har-Tru tennis courts, four pickleball courts and a lagoon-edged pool with a walk-in end and lanes.
A small group of rented places around the Weeki Wachee river: Neptune's Grotto, a lodge beside a coastal spring that also takes events, three canal-side houses called Mermaid Cove, Pirate's Cove and the Chubby Mermaid, and a cabin at Hernando Beach with a way straight out to the Gulf. Kayaks are there for guests and a boat can be rented.
Four furnished suites, each with its own kitchen, at 7300 Shoal Line Boulevard in Spring Hill, on the spring-fed Weeki Wachee River. The whole place can be taken by one group. Kayaks, canoes and paddle boards are there for guests, and everyone shares a tiki hut, a fire pit and a grill.
A waterside motel at 4291 Shoal Line Boulevard in Hernando Beach, with plain condominium units that have kitchens, boat docks at the property and boats to rent. It looks west over the water toward the Gulf, and Weeki Wachee Springs State Park and the Weekiwachee Preserve are close.
A fish camp at 8092 Marys Fish Camp Road, Bayport, open since 1946 on the spring-fed Mud River. There are six furnished waterfront cabins with a bathroom, kitchen, bedrooms, television and internet, 17 full-hookup RV sites with thirty or fifty amp power, and plain tent sites in the woods with a shared bathhouse. A 275-foot seawall is there for fishing, and kayaks and canoes are rented.
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