Established Camping
Florida / Groveland Richloam WMA - Bay Lake Camp
About
The Florida Forest Service regulates camping and a fee is required. Hunt camps also require a permit for reserved camping. For more information and dates hunt camps are open to the public, telephone the Withlacoochee Visitor Center at 352-797-4140. Sale of available reserved hunt campsites begins the first Thursday after Labor Day. Camping is allowed at all campgrounds during general gun season and only at Pless Place campground during archery, wild hog-dog, small game and spring turkey seasons. A hunt camp reservation (permit) is required at all times, except a limited number of overnight campsites are available at Pless Place for a daily fee during the archery, general gun, wild hog-dog, small game and spring turkey seasons. When camping is allowed, only designated campsites may be used. Only tents, trailers, temporary shelters or self-propelled camping vehicles may be used for camping. Firewood may only be gathered to be burned in a designated area in a Florida Forest Service campground with a valid camping permit. Alcohol is allowed at hunt camps, but only for permitted campers and their guests. Link to map (J on right of map is the campground)
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- Boat-InSites accessible by watercraft.
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Site Types
- Tent Sites
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Features
For Campers
- ADA Access
- Phone Service
- Reservable
- Alcohol
- Pets
- Fires
Leave this one to the hunters
Nice place with a lot of space, no security, heavily used by seasonal hunters, no amenities, there is "pick up truck traffic" that goes through camp on way to forest well into the night on weekends.
Hunting season fills this camp to capacity, local teens and mud trucks/4x4's drive through the camp late into the night on weekends. We had a strange vehicle drive around the camp a few times in the middle of the night and then came back later in the morning - just circling around - mad us feel quite uneasy.
We cleaned up 2 55 gal bags of trash - we had found that a "dog hunting" club (no they do not hunt dogs but with them) had just been out there the past week for over a week (they left a grand mess).
During the day place was quite and peaceful. we saw deer, squirrel, rabbits. We did not venture out on trails.
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Location
Florida / Groveland Richloam WMA - Bay Lake Camp is located in Florida
Coordinates
28.499536 N
82.061051 W