Flamingo Campground is just under 40 miles from the entrance to Everglades National Park and about 36 miles from the Long Pine Key campground. Camping at Flamingo as opposed to Long Pine Key provides easy access to activities in the Flamingo area. Campground: Flamingo Campground – Everglades National ParkLocation: Southern
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Long Pine Key Campground – Everglades National Park – Florida
Welcome to the Everglades National Park in southern Florida! Everglades National Park is comprised of 1.5 million acres in southern Florida and has 3 entrances, Flamingo, Shark Valley, and Gulf Coast. We entered in the main entrance for Flamingo near Homestead southwest of Miami. The Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center
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We were heading south from Daytona to the Everglades National Park and wanted to drive via Lake Okeechobee and spend a night to make the trip more relaxing. It was tough finding a place but we managed to snag the last site at the Okeechobee KOA for an “OUCH” price.
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Daytona Beach now has a Buc-ee’s as off March 2021 so we had to stop and fill up before proceeding on to our RV Park in South Daytona. It was a Friday afternoon and the place was packed. Even with 104 pumps they were all full so we just waited
Continue readingRainbow Springs State Park – Dunellon, Florida
Rainbow Springs State Park is in Dunellon, Florida southwest of Ocala and is known for its headspring basin which produces up to 600,000,000 gallons of fresh water per day forming the Rainbow River. This park has a variety of activities such as swimming, snorkeling, canoeing, kayaking, and wildlife viewing. There
Continue readingOchlockonee River State Park – Sopchoppy, Florida
It was time to drive across the Florida panhandle from Topsail Hill Preserve State Park to Sopchoppy. We love to take the back roads to see the real America so off we went north on the non-toll bridge in Santa Rosa over the Choctawatchee Bay and on to Highway 20
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We departed Rocky Bayou State Park and headed south over the Mid Bay Bridge to Destin and then east to Santa Rosa Beach using our SunPass to cross the bridge. With the RV and the tow car it was $12. It was a clear sunny day with beautiful views of
Continue readingFred Gannon – Rocky Bayou State Park – Niceville, Florida
We departed Mississippi and headed into Alabama and on through the beautiful city of Mobile!! About 30 minutes east of Mobile long I-10 is the wonderful Buc-ee’s. Buc-ee’s is a chain of country stores and gas stations that originated in Texas in 1982 and is spreading throughout the country with
Continue readingDavis Bayou – Gulf Islands National Seashore – Ocean Springs, Mississippi
We headed into Mississippi and passed the NASA John C Stennis Space Center. The INFINITY Science Center is located there and is a museum open to the public and offers a blend of space, Earth science, and engineering and technology content. We would have stopped if we had known about
Continue readingFairview-Riverside State Park – Madisonville, Louisiana
As we make our way through Louisiana we drive on elevated roads through the swamps and bayous. Now and then we encounter signs for cracklins and boudin and eventually cross the Mississippi River. This means we are officially in the east. We meander our way through town and get to
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