We stayed at Long Pine Key Campground within Everglades National Park, in Homestead, Florida. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A basic no-hookups campground within the national park. A little short for our coach, but we made it work.

Dates:

• Check in: 2024-01-21
• Check out: 2024-02-02
• 12 nights
• We were going to stay 14 nights, but left early to avoid some nasty travel day weather

Weather:

• Mostly cloudy
• High temps ranging between 69-84°F, lows around 48-70°F
• Little wind, gusts to 23 MPH, fairly sheltered by trees

Noise:

• No road noise
• No train noise
• Negligible neighbor noise
• Generators during the day

Site:

• #6, back in, asphalt
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
• A little unlevel, high on right and front; used hydraulic leveling
• Asphalt driveway about 36 feet long by about 10 feet wide; had to back into shrubs
• Passenger side grass to hedge of trees between site about 30 feet
• Driver side grass to road wedge-shaped, maximum about 30 feet
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• Clean site

Utilities:

• No hookups
• Used generator and solar for power
• Used water bladder and pump to refill fresh water tank
• Used dump tote and macerator to empty gray and black tanks

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 45-60 Mbps down, 16-22 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• AT&T: 145 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• Verizon: 25-41 Mbps down, 20-27 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• T-Mobile: 3 Mbps down, 35 Mbps up, 37-437 ms ping
• Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• In Everglades National Park

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Basic campground in the heart of Everglades NP

Pros: Beautiful, large, private sites within the national park.

Cons: Most sites much shorter than listed and facing the wrong way depending on your configuration (motorhome or trailer) so you have to think creatively to get orientated.

Neutral: No hookups of any kind, so be prepared. We camped at Long Pine Key Campground in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Not really long enough for our coach:

I got my bike out, for the first time in months (we sold Jenn’s a while ago):

A path to the nearby bathroom block:

Dish washing sink:

Inside the men’s bathroom:

We were staying inside Everglades National Park, and did a sailing trip in Biscayne National Park (posts coming on those in the next couple of days), so we added those stickers to our coach:

A snake on the road:

Entrance and dumpsters:

Info sign:

There were some solar-heated showers:

An interesting way to park a coach; perhaps a bit against the rules, but a good solution to cope with the sites being too short for big motorhomes:

Other sites:

Tent sites:

The campground had a path to an amphitheater, where they did ranger talks (with my bike in the foreground):

The Long Pine Key lake:

A nice campground, despite the lack of hookups. We’d be happy to stay here again.