Thousand Trails Peace River

We stayed at Thousand Trails Peace River in Wauchula, Florida. (Campground Reviews listing.)

We had some concerns about staying here, based on reviews, but were pleasantly surprised.

Dates:

Check in: 2025-03-02

Check out: 2025-03-09

7 nights

Weather:

Mostly sunny, a little rain

High temps 68-82°F, lows 43-63°F

A little wind, gusts to 25 MPH

Noise:

Negligible road noise

No train horn noise

A little neighbor noise

Site:

#C50, back-in, grass

Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach

Very level site, surprisingly; used hydraulic leveling

Grass site about 55 feet long by 40 feet wide

Just grass between sites

Picnic table

Fire pit

Tall trees

Somewhat clean site; a bottle and a few other bits of trash (TT doesn’t clean sites)

Elevation 40 feet, front facing North

Utilities:

50 amp power, conveniently located

45 PSI water, conveniently located

No sewer connection; pump-out service available (one free per week, $15 for extra)

Internet (in usage priority order):

Starlink: 10-26 Mbps down, 11-16 Mbps up, 30 ms ping

T-Mobile: 290 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 25 ms ping

AT&T: 435 Mbps down, 15 Mbps up, 45 ms ping

Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 35 ms ping

Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

Garbage dumpsters

Pool

River

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Better than expected

We were somewhat skeptical before our stay here since the reviews weren’t all that great, but we decided to try it anyway and were pleasantly surprised. There were sites available in the full-hookup section, but opted for a w/e-only site since they offer one free pump out per week. The full-hookup sites are smaller and at the front of the park, closer to the highway and noise. The sites closer to the river were much quieter and spread out, so the slight inconvenience of no sewer was a fair trade. Since the hurricane that blew through a few years ago, all sites have been upgraded to 50A (the previous lack of 50A was our main hesitation based on earlier reviews). The campground got a bit busier and noisier (up in the full-hookup section) on the weekend, but it was otherwise a peaceful stay. We camped at Thousand Trails Peace River in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site, in the non-sewer section; more spacious and quieter than the sewer section:

Utilities:

A squirrel on our picnic table:

Towards the end of our stay the waste tanks were getting a little full:

We wanted to empty them for our travel day anyway, so we went to the office to schedule the free honeywagon pumpout; they gave us this sign to put in our window:

The pumpout truck; quick and easy:

Aerial views of our site:

And the campground; you can see the more tightly packed sewer sites closer to the road, and much more spacious non-sewer sites closer to the river:

Office:

Playground:

Pool:

Courts:

Walking path by the river:

Bridge, river, kayak:

Kayak on the river:

There are a couple of dump stations, but on the wrong side of the road for non-sewer sites to use when leaving, weirdly (without looping around):

Cabins:

Other sites:

As I said, we were pleasantly surprised. We’d be happy to stay here again.