Ocean Pond Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Ocean Pond Campground's two-mile wide lake with its shallow, sandy beach provides an escape from everyday life for more than 100,000 visitors each year. The site is about an hour from the First Coast Atlantic beaches and only 30 minutes to multiple state parks, local springs and caves. Backpacking The Great Florida Birding Trail and the Florida National Scenic Trail pass through the campground. Boating, Fishing and Waterskiing This area is a favorite for boaters and water-skiers, anglers and hikers. Facilities includes restrooms, fire rings and picnic tables. Keep reading
A public boat launch and a 67-site campground attracts visitors from near and far. Motor boats and trailers can be kept in the boat trailer parking across from the boat ramp. Camping The early bird gets the worm! Come early for lakeshore camping. Nineteen sites have electric and water hook-ups, 28 have water hook ups and 20 sites are primitive. Water and electric are paved spurs with a 50-foot capacity. Each site has a lantern post, picnic table, fire ring and convenient access to bathrooms and hot showers. Ocean Pond is just four miles away from the Olustee Battlefield State Park , site of Florida's largest Civil War battle, which took place in 1864. The Olustee Battle Festival is held annually in Lake City. The Battle Re-enactment is held annually at the Olustee Battlefield State Park. Olustee Beach Information Come join the fun! If you are interested in day-use activities, please visit Olustee Beach which has full bathrooms with showers, beach, boat launch, fishing pier, trails and picnic areas. Swim along a shallow sandy beach and watch the water birds wade through the cypress. Water ski along the glassy lake or watch the white caps roll in on windy days. You may also enjoy fishing on the pier, picnicking under the hammock, or walking the Trampled Track Trail , which tells the story of Osceola's turpentining history.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Facilities includes restrooms, fire rings and picnic tables.”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Each site has a lantern post, picnic table, fire ring and convenient access to bathrooms and hot showers.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach, Coast
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Ocean Pond CampgroundOsceola National Forest · 0.7 miCobb Hunt CampOsceola National Forest · 1.8 mi
Group LandingOsceola National Forest · 2.6 miBig Camp Hunt CampOsceola National Forest · 9.9 miEast Tower Hunt CampOsceola National Forest · 11 mi
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Overnight Camping PermitOkefenokee National Wildlife Refuge · 39 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Watertown, FL
Typical weather
Typical October night 59°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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 Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land

Ocean Pond Campground is in Florida’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kat Cammack (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →