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.
