Long Pine Key Campground

Long Pine Key Campground in Everglades National Park makes a great base camp to explore Everglades National Park. In this video, we provide a walking tour of the Long Pine Key Campground within Everglades National Park and show you the best campsites. Long Pine Key Campground is located close to the entrance to Everglades National Park on the left after passing the park headquarters and visitor center. Verizon cellular service clocked in at 12.3 Mbps download speed and 6.45 Mbps upload speed. AT&T cellular service was 1 Bar LTE, but a speed test failed due to poor connectivity. There was no T-Mobile cellular service at this location.

The sites are huge, although the concrete pads are not. They let you park whatever way you want to maximize your experience. Although there are no hookups, the showers and bath houses were fine. We loved our time there. It’s quiet (when people aren’t running their generators), and wasn’t buggy for us. We were in site 92 and happy with it. We drove to Flamingo, 35 miles down the road, and there were tons of mosquitoes there. We were super happy we were at LPK.

Long Pine Key campground was a great location to explore the park. It was close enough to the Homestead entrance that a drive to Shark Valley Visitor Center and trail was just over an hour away and the Flamingo area was about 40 minutes away. The site we had was very nice. The length of the concrete pad seemed quite a bit shorter than the advertised size of the site, but our 30 foot trailer fit nicely in the pad for 38-47 foot. If we had a bigger rig, we would not have fit on the pad. However, you weren't required to stay on the pad, so larger rigs were able to arrange their setup to fit the site. Our site had a lot of grass on both sides of the pad, and the grass was well mowed. The sites seemed to be pretty well isolated from each other by the foliage. Our site was in one of the loops, so it was a lot more private than the sites along the perimeter road. The restrooms were clean, but the showers had water that was heated with solar, so if it's chilly and cloudy, you won't get a warm shower. The staff was very friendly and helpful upon check-in; and they let us know they had bug spray, firewood and ice for sale. The dumpsters were pretty full all three nights we were there and we were told they would be emptied the day we were leaving. Generators can only be used from 8AM - 8PM, and the staff was great about ensuring everyone was able to enjoy the night sounds. We had a huge owl visit on our first night there, but other than birds, we didn't see any other wildlife in the campground.

Long Pine Key is one of two campgrounds inside Everglades National Park. None of the sites in Long Pine have electricity, but it's more peaceful and centrally located than Flamingo an hour down the road. Administered by a contractor, they only give 10% senior pass discount. You do not get to reserve a specific site.The sites are lovely although many of the concrete pads are quite short and on the wrong side for a trailer. Had we known that they don't care that you stay on the pad, we would have arranged ourselves differently. That said, we had a wonderful week exploring the park and taking advantage of ranger led activities.

Nice campground with plenty of spots this time of year. No hook ups. Sites get plenty of sun for solar. Generators allowed 8am-8pm. Dump station near the entrance/exit.

AT&T had one bar and worked sporadically - not good enough to use for work though. Verison works great.

Nice walking trails nearby. Lots of mosquitos and bugs if you walk the trails so be prepared.

Saw a couple gators in the pond. Heard owls at night.

There are showers and bathrooms. Didn’t use them though.

The “Robert is Here” farm stand that you pass by on one of the main road before the park entrances has delicious milkshakes and smoothies, along with fresh fruit, jams, etc.

The boil water notice was over by the time I arrived.

Pretty good campground. No hook-ups.

Pros: quiet, good sites, pretty level, lots of showers, close-ish to Biscayne and Flamingo visitors center of Everglades. Heard owls!

Cons: The mosquitoes weren’t bad in late November — but they’re definitely present. I’d never come in the summer. Showers: there are quite a few. Solar powered. We took in late afternoon and had plenty of hot water (campground not full at all). The showers themselves are a single spray. A little lame (but enough to remove shampoo)
Water needed to be boiled when we were here. Boo! (E coli)

Our trailer is 25 ft, and with our truck we are 42 ft total, so I booked a site with the 38’-45’ range. You don’t get to pick an actual site when reserving, just a size. The site they gave us was tiny! I don’t see how it was even 38’ because it barely fit our trailer without the truck. We drove around and finally found a spot we could fit the trailer and the with a weird diagonal parking job could get our truck in with only one tire on the grass. Which is supposed to be a big no no, but no one ever told us to move the truck. I never saw a park host outside of the entry gate. One section was blocked off, so maybe there are bigger sites there, but if you have a long rig I wouldn’t come here.

The bathrooms were clean, as well as the showers. My water was cold, but it was so stinking hot and humid that I liked it that way! The campground was very clean with nice vegetation between sites for privacy.

Spacious campsite with paved level pad, fire ring and large picnic table. Large wooded buffer between campsites. Clean bathrooms with plenty of hot water. Centrally located near hikes and visiter centers.

Only Verizon coverage at this campsite! AT&T might get service at the back of the campsite but very sketchy. Absolutely no t-mobile or sprint coverage at the campsite

We stayed here for two nights and found the campground to be very nice. Campsite pad was level and paved. Good separation between sites. Yes, this is dry camping, so you have to be equipped for that. The restrooms were good and I found the showers to work OK. (Some folks have reported running out of hot water.)
I was surprised to have decent mobile phone service on Verizon.