Burns Lake Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:27 UTC
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Burns Lake Campground offers lake views from every campsite. Offering direct backcountry access, this campground is the ideal place for hunters and off-road vehicle enthusiasts. Keep reading
Recreation
Burns Lake offers a great access point for your permitted off-road vehicle. Campers can enjoy fishing in the lake and surrounding areas with the appropriate licensure. Just far enough from any major highway, this campground offers countless wildlife viewing opportunities.
Facilities
This campground offers a picnic day use area, vault toilets, and an off-road vehicle parking lot and access point. No fresh water is available.
Natural Features
Surrounded by towering pine trees and wrapping around a lake, this campground allows you to feel like you are getting away while still being close enough to modern conveniences. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (239) 631-9988.
Nearby Attractions
Campers can enjoy local sight-seeing attractions such as airboat and swamp buggy tours, museums, art galleries, and boardwalks. This campground is located close to multiple national and state parks.
What the agency tells you
This campground is primarily used by hunters and off-road vehicle users.
No fresh water is available.
Dogs must be kept on a leash.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
No off-road vehicle use within campground.
For more information please call the off-road vehicle office at 239-631-9988.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Be considerate of your fellow campers by observing quiet hours from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am. All generators must be off at 10:00 pm
Any violations of park rules or regulations will cause a revocation of your camping permit and no refund will be given.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14 · 6 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- 14
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campground offers a picnic day use area, vault toilets, and an off-road vehicle parking lot and access…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…vehicle parking lot and access point. No fresh water is available. Natural Features Surrounded by…”
12 of 14 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 15:27 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
Watch for a cancellation
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One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| RV NONELECTRIC | 03 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 103 ft | 49 ft | $24 |
| RV NONELECTRIC | 04 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 89 ft | 47 ft | $24 |
| RV NONELECTRIC | 05 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 64 ft | 45 ft | $24 |
| RV NONELECTRIC | 06 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 64 ft | 46 ft | $24 |
| RV NONELECTRIC | 07 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 65 ft | 54 ft | $24 |
| RV NONELECTRIC | 08 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 28 ft | 71 ft | $24 |
| RV NONELECTRIC | 09 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 28 ft | 56 ft | $24 |
| RV NONELECTRIC | 10 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 40 ft | 46 ft | $24 |
| Tent Only NonElectric | 11 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 98 ft | 57 ft | $24 | |
| Tent Only NonElectric | 12 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 98 ft | 65 ft | $24 | |
| Tent Only NonElectric | 13 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 117 ft | 68 ft | $24 | |
| Tent Only NonElectric | 14 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 117 ft | 77 ft | $24 | |
| Tent Only NonElectric | 15 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 233 ft | 78 ft | $24 | |
| Tent Only NonElectric | 16 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 233 ft | 94 ft | $24 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Burns LakeBig Cypress National Preserve · 0.9 mi
Monument Lake Campground6.7 mi
Bear Island CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 11 mi
Pink Jeep CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 11 mi
Midway Campground (FL)Big Cypress National Preserve · 15 mi
Mitchell Landing CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 20 miFrom Naples: Follow US HWY 41 east until you see signs for campground (approximately mile marker 67).
From Miami: Follow US HWY 41 west until you see signs for campground (approximately mile marker 67)
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Plantation Island, FL
Typical weather
Typical October night 70°F, day 87°F.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Burns Lake Campground is in Florida’s 26th congressional district. Its representative, Mario Diaz-Balart (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →