Wright Lake Campground

This campground is quiet,peaceful, and affordable (by Florida standards). No issues at all for a big rig. We enjoyed our time here and took the time to work on some small projects on our rig. Walking near the woods, our dogs came back full, (and by full, I mean like 40) ticks. It is great for a quiet stop, but there is not much around to do. We drove to Apalachacola for a day and had lunch at Up the Creek Raw Bar. Apalachacola seems to be the nearest town for groceries, etc.. The campsite has water hookups and garbage bins are situated throughout the campground.

Join us on a video tour of of the Wright Lake Campground located within the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida; video uploaded here on Campendium for your immediate reference. We visit the Wright Lake Campground, day use area, trailhead, and dump station. The campground has flush toilets and shower house and makes a good base camp for exploring the area. You'll find affordable non-electric RV and tent campsites here. T-Mobile cellular service clocked in at 2.81 Mbps download speed and 0.17 Mbps upload speed. AT&T and Verizon cellular service was nonexistent at the campground.

"This area is open, but with reduced services and no fees. The water system was impacted by Hurricane Michael. Numerous leaks have been found and the water system has been compromised. To do the necessary repairs to the water system, the campground would have to remain closed until the required testing shows it is safe to use. Portable toilets and handwashing stations are available with regular servicing, but the bathhouses and spigots will remain closed/off until after hunting season when we can assess the entire system and get it back online."

First, a quick clarification. I reserved my site online and the site fee was $10, plus a $10 reservation fee. There was no place to pay at the camp, and I didn’t see a ranger or host while I was there. Perhaps the walkup rate without reservation would have been just the $10, couldn’t tell ya.
Annnyway, this was absolutely one of my most peaceful and quiet camps I have ever stayed at. There were quite a few of the sites occupied....and you could hear quiet conversations and movings about, but it seemed as if the whole camp was at a cathedral-level of hush and awe. Gorgeous.
The showers are push-ons and you do have to keep pushing them, but they get hot and everything seems to be kept clean and stocked and there are water hookups at every site (much more delicious and clean water than where I last filled up..)
I walked along the trail a little ways and it was very well marked (started right next to my campsite) but did not do either of the hikes the whole way.
*note* As other reviewers have noted, the cell service was unreliable. I varied between 3 bars with LTE to no service the whole time I was there.

On our way to Apalachicola we pulled off 65 and into the two mile stretch of sand road to Wright Lake Campground. Our mission was to check it out while in the area with the idea of avoiding wasting an future hour's drive to camp somewhere we did not like. Upon first sight we knew the place was great. There were several RV's and campsites already set up with fishermen in waders hanging around, and groups of tow or three standing around chatting. It seemed like a very good quality of outdoors people. The campground was clean and the sites well spaced out. We noticed there were only water hookups at each campsite, but a dump station was at the entrance to the park. Fees to camp were very inexpensive, and if you have a geezer pass to the National Park system everything is half off. The only problem we foresaw was the lack of any AT&T cell service. That might be a deal breaker for us, unless we needed to really escape from any and all hubbub.

This campground offered great campsites with a small lake for paddling, large, clean restrooms with showers, hiking trails, and friendly camp hosts who do a great job keeping the whole place looking well manicured.

The road back to the campground was packed sand and we had no trouble pulling our camper trailer with 2 wheel drive truck.

The price here reflects our senior pass half price discount. They had a sign posting proposed price increases.

Other campers here while we were here were all quiet and respectful.