This is a smaller campground with about 20 FHU sites and a few dozen no sewer sites. Like mant TT parks, lots of seasonal residents but unlike many other parks, the full timers are not dismissive of the recreational and nomdic campers. This is a great place to get out of the cities and explore Michigan wine country or the South Bend/Elkhart areas. There are several low hanging branches and many tight sites. Call beforehand if you are 40' or bigger.
If you want something in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do, please go here. They have some nice sites and some beautiful vistas but, they have LOTS of problems. If you need to be in South Florida and can't find another site, this works as a campground of last resort but, it's LAST resort which is how we ended up there for 2 months.
The staff TRIES but, there is little support to keeping the place up-kept. Staff keeps abandoning and leaving the place for brighter pastures even skipping out without notice due to the retribution of management.
This team owns and manages several KOA in south Florida and this location needs to lose it's KOA affiliation due to lack of amenities.
On the positive side, when we thought we wouldn't fit in our next stop at Everglades National Park, they bent over backwards to make sure we didn't have to move our site. Our campsite was huge but, we could not put up our tent, screen room or EZ-UP.
Most campers were looking to leave while we were there this winter.
If you never stayed at an Encore Park in Florida, this is as average as it gets for them. Tight sites, older infrastructure.
There is a tight community here and if you are spending your TT max of 2 weeks, and you want to be, you can be integrated into the community. Our kid busted his butt for folks and made $100 in 2 weeks helping people.
As others have said, we walked to downtown Winter Garden and love the small town. We go back even when at other parks in the area. Lots of traffic on 50 so, be aware if you can't sleep with noises, you need another location.
This place is a balance depending on what you are looking for in your experience. As full-timers, we enjoy stopping by when we can but, we won't go out of our way to get a spot here.
There are more RVers here in the winter than I thought possible in one place not the Hershey or Tampa RV Show. Lots of families, lots of older folks, overall a good mix of people.
There are multiple sections here each with a completely different feel. D section is old-school, Florida State Park-like camping. You have that romantic, southern charm and foliage. It's tight for big rigs, lacks internet and getting your Starlink out there can be a challenge. T-Mobile and AT&T work great out there but, it depends on what you need. The new section is immaculate with large grass sites, nice pads and easy back-in sites for even the biggest fifth-wheels. This is the best place if you have a need to work from your camper. If, like us, you like to work from a tent, you cannot put anything on that beautiful grass campsite. This is why we stay in the older section. It's run-down, crumbling concrete pads that need to be repoured, decent sized sites AND you can use the grass.
This is our third time here and we will keep coming back due to community and locality. Not far from Disney though traffic makes it harder to get to the other parks. Wawa and Publix are just outside the gate for your coffee and grocery needs.
Get here at noon ON THE DOT if you want a new site. D section I recommend 35 feet or under, and enjoy the parade on Saturdays and Sunday as 40-100 new rigs come in.
STAY AWAY FROM THE SITES NEXT TO THE SEWER ACCESS, THEY STINK!
First off, this is Disney doing Disney things. Campground is immaculate. Clean is an understatement. The pools are beautiful if aging a bit. I don't have much to add to all the other glowing comments about this place except…
Watch out for the trees in the back of your site. We had an oopsie that I missed while bringing my rig in. It was a bad week for me and trees tbh.
We have had 2 trips here, for my birthday. Using the transport system allows all the adults to party. Drinking around the World at Epcot or Drinking around the resorts, I highly advise making a game of both.
This place is all about location. You can practically ride your bike to Disney or Sea World properties.
The campground is typical Encore, tight and unappealing. As the one review said, if you come in off-hours, it will be a hassle. Oh, and you will hear sirens and helicopters ALL the time.
If you Uber, you can get anything you need without moving your vehicle. Walk to groceries, restaurants, Old Town is 1.5 miles from the traffic light. Dinner theater is a 5 minute ride down 192 (depending on Traffic).
I'd rather be at TTO but, this place is a great way to stay out of TTO when your 2 weeks are up.
So, it is a small but beautiful park with all the amenities you expect from the big parks just with ducks. There are some nice sites and some really narrow ones. There is enough to do and enough room in the park that the size of your site really doesn't matter in the long run because… ducks.
Sometimes it isn't just the way a park is but, how a park reacts to issues.
One of the seasonal employees was cutting the grass with a weed eater. It was throwing stones and broke a window on my rig. They immediately took responsibility and offered to have someone fix it locally ASAP. The window had to be ordered from the factory and would take 4-6 weeks to get to us. They tried to see if they had open sites until we could get the window fixed and have their local guys repair it. Unfortunately, they did not have room for us but, they are going to be reimbursing us for the expenses for the fix. Still waiting on the window as of this time.
Love working with good people.
Oh yeah, did I mention ducks?
Free duck eggs!
Once you get over that this is not a resort and just a place to sleep for the night, it's great. There's just enough space to use your campsite and to chill once your day of work or adventure is done. Lots of locals using this park for full time but just remember: RV Parking, not RV Park.
Easy on-off to the highway, easy access to Jacksonville though on the west side of the city and a bit from the beaches.
I don't know if I would use if for a tourist spot but, for an overnight or a long term, affordable stay, this is 100% a good spot.
This park was rated as pet friendly in the TT system, turns out it isn't. Now with under 2 weeks to go, we need to make new reservations and may have to be over an hour out from where we need to be.
Phone calls galore trying to find a new site.
This is a small, wooded campground with large private sites. They are working to improve the campground everyday. The area is remote, services are around but limited and the upper sites where we are have a great view of the sky for Starlink users. There is a bathhouse and a laundry room with a washer and a drier. There is no deposit for reservations and payment is online. We had an ebike fire and the owner was mellow, helpful and got us what we needed to clean up the mess including his personal truck for him to drop everything remaining at the dump. This place is awesome and quiet.
This is the second most expensive month we have had as full time RVers. Beautiful park, great staff and decent facilities except the bathrooms. Why would you charge this much and then charge for showers? It is insulting that a resort this nice would do something so cheap. Lots of seasonal but, the sites are well kept. Weekdays in prime season are quiet, weekends are packed. Great placw, we will be back.
This is what I want for a Catskill campground. It is not a concrete pad haven and yes, there is mud. Our site was even and easy to level on. Lots of locals and summer residents. Our biggest issue was that they are still training their staff how to deal with families. This will work out if people communicate with management, they were reseptive to constructive criticism.
Lovely regional park with great facilities. Our last trip was in March and it was just too cold to be here. They do a great job just no sewer. Love their ox bow setup for the pull through sites though they can be tricky to setup in.
If you want to visit NYC and surrounding areas, this is the place. Expensive but… When you look at local hotel rates, not so much. Getting in and out is not for someone in a brand new 45' travel trailer. Know your rig and know how to maneuver it in tight spaces. This is not for the timid RV driver. Security is tight. I would recommend talking to and meeting the guards before you leave so it doesn't feel like your mama just caught you sneaking out to drink in high school. They said it can get roudy outside the RV park at peak season but, before the Surf bar opens, it is both safe and quiet.
First off, there is a community here. There are a bunch of seasonal folks but, they aren't territorial. The owner is great but, if you are looking for warm and being greeted with a hug, that's not her. The rest of the staff will hug you. They look at their guests as extentions of their community. The location is 90 minutes to NYC, 60 minutes to Philly and 20 minutes from Allentown and Bethlehem. Bucks County is a bit hard to explore and lower Bucks is a hike but, there is nothing closer. We will stop again for the easy access to everything.
We have a lovely site right up against a Floridian stand of woods. The site is big and open for a private campground and plenty of space for a family. The site is 30amp and no sewage. You have to drive around and pick a 30 amp site then you are entered into a lottery system after you get to your site to move to a 50 amp site with sewage. We were here and pulled into the driveway at 12:06 (check-in time of noon) specifically to get what we want for our rig. Rather than have to move again, we stayed in our site and decided to just use the honey wagon. First off, you get one honey wagon visit per week. Really!?!?!? Second, unless you book it a week or two before, there is no way to get a Wednesday appointment. Considering this is a campground without sewage, why would you have only one honey wagon without enough ability to service your customers? Thank goodness for a 36 gallon poop-tote. Location is great but, this is a private campground with State Park like lack of amenities.
First off, no sewer. Just power and water. Little to no AT&T cellular, T-Mobile works great. Sites are huge, great camp site and fishing right off the camp site in many sites. This place was amazing.
So, we were here a bit long term in the summer. Staying here in the summer is as bad as being in Vermont in winter. You need a reason to be there and sadly we did.
First off, waking up to lions roaring and bonobos scream in the morning was freaking amazing! I will treasure this memory for the rest of my life.
The facilities are aging but are clean. The ladies in the front office were awesome and accommodating. We purchased a new RV while there and they had no issues moving us and making sure we were good with moving up from a 30 Amp to a 50 Amp site.
At $99/night it is expensive and by not having the facilities of a KOA Holiday and being so far away from the Highway as a KOA Journey I can't give it 5 stars but, it is damn close.
So, we are here for 3 weeks. We are under a WiFi pole and have good signal and usable internet. It was actually worth paying for. There is a boat launch but, it is hard to get to and down a large, steep incline. I wouldn't bring anything sizable down that hill, no real marina.
It is a functional park and what I have come to expect from a Thousand Trails park. The lower section of the park is tight and can be difficult to get into a site, roads are very narrow.
The laundromat was nice, facilities are numerous though I can't say exceptional.
We will use this place as a stopping point for a night or so but can't say I would stay here for a few weeks again unless we need to be in the area.