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An RV and mobile home park at 4648 US Highway 441 in Okeechobee with more than ninety full hookup sites, graveled pull through and grassed back in, taking units up to forty-five feet with slides on both sides. Every site has water and sewer and newly installed thirty and fifty amp service. Cable and telephone can be arranged with local providers. There are large areas to walk dogs. Sites are taken by the day, the week or the month.
A community for people over 55 at 13801 US Highway 441 Southeast, on the northeast side of Lake Okeechobee, with two hundred and forty-eight homes and RV lots, some on the lake, taken by the season or the year. There is an executive golf course, a clubhouse with activities through the year, a swimming pool, fishing lakes, a boat launch with access to Lake Okeechobee, a pickleball court and petanque courts. It is pet friendly.
A hotel at 1200 State Road 70 East in Okeechobee. A hot breakfast buffet is included every morning. There is an outdoor pool, a fitness center, a business center, free self parking and free wireless internet, and one meeting room of five hundred and twenty-nine square feet. Up to two dogs or cats are taken, to a weight limit.
A hotel of sixty-five rooms at 3101 US Highway 441 in Okeechobee. Breakfast is free and children eat free. There is an outdoor pool open from eight in the morning until ten at night, a fitness room open around the clock with treadmills and free weights, a self service laundry and a meeting room. Parking is free, with eighty-five spaces taking buses, trucks, trailers and RVs, and six outdoor outlets for charging boats. Only service animals are taken.
A motel at 3190 Highway 441 South in Okeechobee, half a mile from Lake Okeechobee and within walking distance of a shopping plaza and several restaurants. Rooms come with two double beds or a queen bed, and some have a kitchenette. Wireless internet is free.
An RV park of three and a half acres at 6500 US Highway 441 Southeast, on the rim canal around Lake Okeechobee, open to all ages. Sites are full hookup, with patios, and take RVs, campers, trailers and motor homes up to thirty-five feet. There is a pool by the water, a clubhouse with billiards, a lounge and exercise machines, showers and a coin laundry. Monthly marina memberships include storage, a private dock and a launching ramp. Pets are welcome.
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