Midway Campground (FL)
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- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $24–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 36All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Midway Campground is a beautiful place where visitors can enjoy the surrounding preserve while sitting at their picnic table. Visitors may enjoy nearby activities such as fishing, hiking through the preserve, and exploring the many boardwalks. Keep reading
Recreation
Midway Campground is centrally located in Big Cypress National Preserve, offering a multitude of recreational activities. Ranging from hiking, biking, fishing, hunting, photography, and off-road vehicle trails.
Facilities
This campground offers electric hookups for RV sites, dump station, flush toilets, and water. Each RV campsite has its own picnic table and hibachi style grill. Covered picnic areas are located around the lake for day use.
Natural Features
The RV campsites surround the lake offering a view from every site. Each campsite is open with limited to no shade. The outer perimeter of the campground is lined with a mixture of different trees. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (239) 631-9988.
Nearby Attractions
Located just off the highway, this campground is close to the Oasis Visitor Center, Miccosukee Cultural Center, Shark Valley, and Clyde Butcher's Art Gallery.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife frequents the area so food should be stored in closed containers and put away after use
Dogs must remain on a leash
No swimming in the lake
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Off-road vehicles are not allowed to operate in the 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.
Cash payments are not accepted at this campground. Payments must be made online. There is limited to no cell phone coverage at the campground, advance reservations are highly recommended.
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
- 36 · 10 tent-only
- Hookups
- 26 electric
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 26 of 36
- Accessible sites
- 36
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Night sky · 26th darkest of 60 in FL
- Bortle 4
59 of 72 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:45 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$30 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 16:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 36 mapped sitesAll 36 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. 36 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| RV ELECTRIC | 01 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 38 ft | 112 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 02 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 115 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 03 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 35 ft | 113 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 04 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 35 ft | 110 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 05 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 108 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 06 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 35 ft | 113 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 07 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 35 ft | 114 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 08 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 37 ft | 115 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 09 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 32 ft | 112 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 10 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 32 ft | 109 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 11 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 40 ft | 107 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 12 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 41 ft | 111 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 13 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 48 ft | 99 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 14 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 108 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 15 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 98 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 16 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 39 ft | 93 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 17 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 39 ft | 88 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 18 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 95 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 19 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 96 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 20 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 34 ft | 95 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 21 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 34 ft | 94 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 22 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 94 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 23 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 36 ft | 92 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 24 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 37 ft | 91 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 25 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 32 ft | 89 ft | $30 |
| RV ELECTRIC | 26 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 32 ft | 88 ft | $30 |
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 27 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 72 ft | 94 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 28 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 45 ft | 81 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 29 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 52 ft | 136 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 30 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 33 ft | 69 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 31 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 52 ft | 127 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 32 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 33 ft | 89 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 33 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 52 ft | 145 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 34 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 116 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 35 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 152 ft | $24 | ||
| TENT ONLY NONELECTRIC | 36 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 44 ft | 196 ft | $24 |
25 of 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pinecrest Group CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 7.5 mi
Mitchell Landing CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 7.5 mi
Monument Lake Campground8.0 mi
Pink Jeep CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 10 mi
Bear Island CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 10 mi
Burns Lake CampgroundBig Cypress National Preserve · 15 miFrom Naples: Follow US HWY 41 east until you see signs for campground (approximately mile marker 52)
From Miami: Follow US HWY 41 west until you see signs for campground (approximately mile marker 52)
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Chokoloskee, FL
Typical weather
Typical October night 71°F, day 89°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
Midway Campground (FL) 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 →