FLAMINGO CAMPGROUND

We stayed at the Flamingo Campgroud. Grounds were well kept, sites were large. There are only some sites with electric only at them.

Exelente????

Good for a day trip. Not a lot to do but the visitor centers are nice in this park. Main road to the campsite is over 40 miles long. Do not recommend to anyone who isn’t familiar with the mosquitos/animals in Florida. I’m a born and raised Floridian (NE FL, I’ve spent the majority of my life outdoors) and I still had a rough time at this campsite. I covered myself in Off Deep Woods (40% Deet) the entire time and still left with 15+ mosquito bites. The other campers who were unfortunate enough to get the sites nearer to the woods were literally fleeing due to the bugs when I went for my morning stroll. I also watched vultures pick apart another campsite because they failed to secure their food in their car.
Camp ground itself is clean, bathrooms are refreshed every morning, the “solar showers” everyone else complained about are powered by 6 massive solar panels, employees were very polite. It’s simply not a great idea to build a campground on a marsh in Florida. I hoped the mosquitos wouldn’t be as bad as the reviews said because I went in early January, I was sorely mistaken.
I did not pick the campground due to the fact I stayed with friends from out of state who booked the site. It would not have been my choice at all because I’m smart enough to read the reviews thus the three bottles of Off that I brought and used. There’s literally a “mosquito meter” in one of the visitors centers… I will not be going back. Don’t plan on visiting much else outside of the park because it’s nearly an hour away from the nearest town and an hour and a half from the keys. I hope this review spares at least a few poor souls. Do yourself a favor and book a hotel room, make a day trip to the Everglades National Park and spend the other day in the keys.

Way, way too expensive ! I had hope to stay 14 days but $ 800......

I've never seen so many mosquitoes in the middle of the summer anywhere else in the south The amount of mosquitoes here tells me that God doesn't want any concrete buildings or paved roads going there.