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An all suite hotel at 3423 Southeast Federal Highway in Stuart, off US Highway 1, near historic downtown Stuart, Hutchinson Island and Stuart Beach. A full hot breakfast buffet is included. There is an outdoor pool, a fitness center and a business center open around the clock, a guest laundry and up to seven hundred and fifty square feet of meeting space. Suites have a sitting area, a room divider and a desk. Only service animals are taken.
The River Campground in Jonathan Dickinson State Park, four miles inside the entrance, near the Loxahatchee River. It has fifty-two sites with water and electricity, hot showers and a laundry. The park also has the Pine Grove campground and eleven one bedroom cabins. There are nearly twenty-five miles of hiking trails and nine miles of mountain bike trails, and the Loxahatchee is known for canoeing and kayaking, under old cypress upstream and through mangroves below.
An inn at 18903 Southeast Federal Highway in Jupiter, on the Intracoastal Waterway. Every room looks over the water and has a flat screen television, a refrigerator and free wireless internet. There is a heated pool, a sun deck and a fishing pier two hundred and forty feet long, which is not a dock: boats may not tie up. Coffee and tea are provided. Parking is free, one pass to a room. No pets.
An all suite hotel at 1440 Northwest Federal Highway in Stuart. A hot breakfast buffet is included every morning. There is an outdoor pool, a fitness center, free self parking with electric car charging and free wireless internet. Up to two dogs or cats are taken, to a weight limit.
A hotel at 18701 Southeast Federal Highway in Tequesta. There are six kinds of room, from a standard king of two hundred and ten square feet to a Pointe Premier suite of four hundred and twenty, with two waterfront suites that look over the water. Every room has a smart television, a microwave, a small refrigerator, coffee and free wireless internet, and most have a furnished balcony. Parking is free.
A motel at 2211 Northeast Dixie Highway in Jensen Beach, run on site by its owners, Fran and Nancy. There are one bedroom suites with a full kitchen, a dining area and a living area, and efficiency rooms with a kitchenette and their own outdoor space. RV and trailer spaces have thirty and fifty amp electric, water and sewer. There is a heated pool, a coin laundry, barbecue grills and a large tiki hut. Pets are taken, but not cats.
A resort on the Indian River at 3000 Northeast Indian River Drive in Jensen Beach. There are seventy-four RV sites, on gravel or asphalt, taking rigs from forty to fifty feet, all with full hookups, twenty, thirty or fifty amp electric, wireless internet and a picnic table. Bayside rentals have kitchens, a washer and dryer and a covered porch. There is a pool for lap swimming, a fitness center, pickleball courts, a billiards room, beach access, biking trails and fishing.
A county campground of fifty-five acres at 2175 Southwest Locks Road in Stuart, on the Okeechobee Waterway. There are ninety-nine RV sites with twenty, thirty and fifty amp electric, water, sewer, a picnic table and a fire ring, and nineteen adventure tent sites open from November to May. There are hot showers, a laundry, a boat ramp and dock, a fishing pier and boardwalks along the water. Two leashed pets a site are allowed, but not in the tent area.
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