Best Campgrounds near Homestead, FL

A real gem! Not a large CG with lots of amenities, but quiet and beautiful. No water and electricity at sites. Very clean bathroom with showers at entrance; with pit toilet on loop. We were at site 26 which overlooked the field of sawgrass in Big Cypress with nice afternoon shade. It does close for season in mid-April and we were there the last two nights, so very quiet! Good location to enjoy Loop Road in Big Cypress with lots of wildlife. Also good Basecamp for visits to Shark Valley Trail as wall as Ten Thousand Islands.

MAKE SURE YOU TAKE EXTRA WATER, OR FILL YOUR TANKS. We stayed three nights in T-loop, site 42 in mid-April. Only a handful of sites have any shade, so be sure to request shade when making reservations and you may get lucky like us. No water at sites, any only some have electricity. Potable water at bathroom unless pump goes out. It was towards the end of the busy season, so only one of two bathrooms were open. But the one bathroom was clean. Lots of angler groups, so a little noisy at night, but all in all they were respectful. Out last night the water went out and all bathrooms in all loops were closed. Apparently this can be common with pump going out. Understand things happen, but communication was horrible. Just a sign on bathroom that it was closed, no water. No indication that we should go to the visitor center for toilets, sinks. And the next morning the water was back on, but only put up boil advisory sign at CG entrance, not at bathrooms. So people using sinks without knowing water was compromised. Again, awful communication, especially when this happens with some regularity. ONLY AT&T SERVICE, with Wi-Fi at visitor center one mile away.

We camped here at the tail end of the season. More than half of the campground is closed. The gentleman at the camp entrance was friendly. Facilities are clean.

Had a nice experience at John Pennekamp. There is so much to do we biked to nearly everything including nearby restaurants, we hung at the beach, kayaked and did trail walks with the dog. Water was a bit cold for us to snorkel but lots of folks did. Nice quiet campground, no issues whatsoever. Site 20 was great, full hookups, only issue was the no see ums - make sure you bring a thermacell bc they are no joke! Only complaint was the set up for women’s showers - there were 2 side by side and you have to come out of the shower into a common area with the other to get to your dry clothes. Luckily no one else was showering when I was there. If you have a shower in your camper this wont be an issue for you.

Great campground, quite but yet close to Homestead. Bring our own generator. Camp sites have not been maintained like they should have, lots of overgrown brush in the campsites, which makes them harder to squeeze into. The campground needs to reclaim the sites from where there were 10-20 years ago. If the website says it fixs a 40-foot, then it might actually fit a 35 footer

Finally able to book as a FL resident 11 months in advance and secured a site. Limited property equals limited space between sites. But, once you get out and enjoy all there is to do we really didn’t mind the tight spaces too much. Easy to navigate in and out, fairly level site, and all utilities worked fine. Verizon signal good enough to stream. No digital TV reception, which was a surprise being so close to Miami.

My wife, cat and I got on the wait-list for John Pennekamp while RV camping in West Palm Beach for the winter. With a few days notice, we got a campsite and drove down to the keys. What an incredible weekend!

I highly recommend the snorkeling experience offered out of the visitors center. We had an incredible guide and captain, Adam and Ty. Also, this is a great place to have a kayak!!

Definitely dine at The Fish House, just down the street!

Flamingo is one of only two campgrounds in the park, the other Lone Pine but Flamingo manages them both. Flamingo is more popular (so more people). The staff of young hosts were nice and helpful. Campground is huge with one big loop section for tents and the other for RVs. Good showers/toilets. Nearby restaurant and Marina store have WiFi. Lots to do in this park: boat rides, kayak rentals, biking, hiking. Only complaint are the bugs, especially the sites around the ring loop near the shrubs - they are relentless and almost unbearable. Not just mosquitos but those tiny gnats, just horrible really (like Northern Minnesota, Scandinavia, or Siberia). I’d suggest bringing one of those screened in pop up shelters.

The Long Pine campground in the Everglades is nestled in the "Long Tall Pines" Pads on the 108 sites are paved but short! Our site F-92 was labeled 29-33 feet, but our 24'6" was barely out of the road with the rear hanging into the brush. There are not utilities on the sites. Shower houses, while clean, provide solar "hot" water. The showers nearest my site had signs that hot water was not available. Sites are generally large and pads fairly level. The campground is very clean and well kept. Staff are friendly. We had both 2 bars of Verizon 5G.

Dial the reservation number as the link is compromised and sends to to a scammer. Once I realized this I called and got Alanna. She was so sweet and squeezed me in for a stay on my way to Key West!

Not an attractive spot in any way. We booked 3 nights, stayed one and that was excessive.

Mostly enjoyed our two night stay in the Everglades. Flamingo Campground is run by a concessionaire, and its most expensive than we like to pay for campgrounds. $38-42ish per night depending on if its a weekend or week night. Mosquitos were bad the last week in April, wind helped a bit but we basically stayed in our camper the entire time.

Bathrooms were clean and bug free, hot showers available in the A loop!

Full hookups, beaches, marina, hiking paths, small park and lots of relaxing in the sun. Down the road has grocery stores, small shops and great restaurants.

Many sites around a body of water

Bob was very friendly and loved music