The 10 Best RV Parks & Places to Camp in Orlando

November 15, 2026 Claire Donovan

Orlando camping splits into two worlds: spring-fed public campgrounds run by Orange County and Florida State Parks, and the big private RV resorts strung along the Kissimmee and Clermont corridors. We scored both against the same yardstick — and on the review evidence, the public parks win. The list below runs from a 26-site county campground at Rock Springs to Disney’s own Fort Wilderness, every one of them ranked by what campers actually reported.

How we rank: every business is ordered by its Net Score (0–100), which blends its public ratings from Google, TripAdvisor, Yelp and the other review sources we could retrieve — weighted by review volume, then adjusted so a handful of five-star reviews can’t outrank a proven track record (Bayesian shrinkage, m = 200, disclosed in our methodology). A business needs at least 25 public reviews to be ranked. Scores compare only within this category. Ratings retrieved November 15, 2026.

Orlando Citizen Best RV Parks & Places to Camp 2026 award badge — Orlando Citizen Award — Best RV Parks & Places to Camp 2026Awarded to Kelly Park Campground, No. 1 in this ranking.

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1. Kelly Park Campground — Net Score 92.3 (Apopka)

Blended 4.70★ from 7,275 reviews — Google 4.7★ (7,275).

Get: The spring run itself. Campers are based inside the park that feeds Rock Springs, and reviewers and guides alike single out the campground’s 26 sites as unusually spacious — 35 to 70 feet deep, well separated, and tucked under a dense pine-and-hardwood canopy.

Skip: The dog and the cooler. Pets are not allowed anywhere in Kelly Park and alcohol is prohibited — both are county rules, enforced at the gate.

Local detail: Orange County campground with 26 RV/tent sites, water and electric hookups and a dump station (no sewer at sites). Book on the county’s OCPORTAL system up to 45 days ahead — the day-use side of the park caps entry at 280 tickets a day, but campers enter through their own gate. One disclosure: the Google rating behind this score belongs to the whole park listing, spring swimmers included, because the campground has no separate listing.

2. Trimble Park — Net Score 91.9 (Mount Dora)

Blended 4.72★ from 1,102 reviews — Google 4.7★ (978), TripAdvisor 4.6★ (124).

Get: A waterfront site — most of the 15 sites sit on the water between Lake Carlton and Lake Beauclaire, and campers name site 7 as the pick of the loop. Reviewers rave about the shade, the sunsets off Lake Carlton and how meticulously the grounds and bathhouses are kept.

Skip: The showers. Campers consistently note they are narrow with low water pressure, and with only 15 sites the campground books out well ahead on weekends.

Local detail: Orange County’s smallest campground: 15 tent/RV sites with water and electric hookups, a fire ring, grill and picnic table each, plus a dump station inside the campground (no sewer at sites). Reservations run through the Orange County parks portal. Boundary note: Trimble Park is in Mount Dora, at the metro’s northwest edge, but it is an Orange County Parks campground in the same system as Kelly Park and Moss Park.

3. Moss Park — Net Score 91.0 (Lake Nona)

Blended 4.67★ from 1,386 reviews — Google 4.7★ (1,311), TripAdvisor 4.2★ (75).

Get: Room to breathe. TripAdvisor campers praise big, open campsites with enough trees for shade and privacy, clean bathrooms, and a 1,551-acre park between Lake Hart and Lake Mary Jane where deer and fox squirrels are regular sightings.

Skip: A sewer hookup at your site — there isn’t one. Sites carry water and electric only, with a dump station on the way out.

Local detail: Orange County campground with 54 tent/RV sites (water and electric), reservable through OCPORTAL, minutes from Lake Nona and Medical City. One disclosure: the Google figure behind this score is the park’s listing retrieved via a review mirror — the weakest-provenance number in this top 10, and it is flagged as such in our data file.

4. Bill Frederick Park at Turkey Lake — Net Score 89.7 (MetroWest)

Blended 4.60★ from 3,267 reviews — Google 4.6★ (3,200), TripAdvisor 4.1★ (67).

Get: A full city park wrapped around your campsite — 183 acres on Turkey Lake with a disc golf course reviewers call very pretty and very fun, a children’s farm, a pool, boat rentals and more than two miles of nature trails.

Skip: Spontaneity. Camping reservations have to be made at least two days ahead, so this is not a roll-in-tonight option.

Local detail: City of Orlando camping with a small RV area (a mix of full-hookup and electric/water sites), tent sites and cabins; stays are capped at 14 days. The scored Google rating is the whole park’s listing — the campground has no separate one.

5. Orlando / Kissimmee KOA Holiday — Net Score 88.9 (Kissimmee)

Blended 4.58★ from 1,182 reviews — Google 4.6★ (1,182).

Get: The staff. Review after review describes being treated like family, and the park backs it up with patio RV sites, deluxe cabins, a year-round heated pool, a jump pad and a dog park — all minutes from Walt Disney World.

Skip: A few recent guests flag the ungated entrance and an encampment in the woods beside it. The campground itself reviews clean and well run, but if that matters to you, ask for a site away from the entrance.

Local detail: Full-hookup RV sites (50/30/20 amp, many with patios and furniture), tent sites and deluxe cabins at 2644 Happy Camper Place; open all year. It edges Wekiwa Springs for fifth place on review volume at the same Net Score.

6. Wekiwa Springs State Park Campground — Net Score 88.9 (Apopka)

Blended 4.64★ from 326 reviews — Google 4.6★ (326).

Get: The spring, and the bathhouse. The 72-degree spring swimming area is about a mile and a half from the campground — an easy bike ride — and one camper review calls the bathhouse the nicest and cleanest they have ever seen at a state park, with spacious, shaded sites around it.

Skip: Privacy and quiet at the edges. Campers consistently note sites sit close together with limited screening, and sites near the entrance pick up noise from the two-lane access road.

Local detail: 60 sites for RVs up to 50 feet; every site has electric and water and more than half add sewer. Book through Florida State Parks — in summer the park itself reaches capacity by mid-morning on weekends.

7. The Campsites at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort — Net Score 88.1 (Lake Buena Vista)

Blended 4.53★ from 6,211 reviews — Google 4.6★ (4,162), TripAdvisor 4.4★ (2,049).

Get: Camping that is unmistakably Disney: Magic Kingdom fireworks watched from the beach with the music piped in, a boat ride to the park, and sites big enough that one reviewer fit a 42-foot rig, a car and two golf carts with room to spare.

Skip: The golf carts. Late-night cart traffic and noise is the recurring complaint in the reviews — that, and a price of entry reviewers note runs higher than other area options.

Local detail: Roughly 800 sites across tent/pop-up, full-hookup, preferred and premium tiers, booked through Disney. We scored the campsites only: the cabins at Fort Wilderness are a separate lodging product with their own listing and were not blended into this score.

8. Blue Spring State Park Campground — Net Score 87.5 (Orange City)

Blended 4.64★ from 107 reviews — Google 4.6★ (107).

Get: The spring run. Paddlers rent kayaks or a $6 tube to float it, and in winter the spring is one of Florida’s great manatee gatherings — the campground puts you inside the park before the day-use crowds.

Skip: The drive, and a sewer hookup. Orange City is the far edge of this list at roughly 35 miles northeast of Orlando, and sites are water-and-electric only.

Local detail: 51 tent and RV sites with water, electric and grills (six cabins also sit in the campground area), booked through Florida State Parks. Boundary note: Blue Spring is in Volusia County; it earns its place as the metro’s signature spring campground, and the park attraction’s much larger review count was deliberately not used — this score is the campground’s alone.

9. Lake Louisa State Park — Net Score 87.0 (Clermont)

Blended 4.57★ from 123 reviews — Google 4.6★ (123).

Campground-specific review text for Lake Louisa is genuinely thin — most of its public reviews cover the 4,372-acre park as a whole — so we will not pretend to a Get/Skip consensus we could not retrieve. What is verified: 60 campsites with electric and water hookups (some full-hookup) inside a park with more than 20 miles of trails, horseback trail rides and a chain of lakes; reviewers who do mention camping note clean bathhouses and spacious sites. Book through Florida State Parks; park entry is $5 per vehicle.

10. Kissimmee South RV Community — Net Score 86.7 (Davenport)

Blended 4.56★ from 104 reviews — Google 4.6★ (68), TripAdvisor 4.5★ (36).

Get: The social calendar. This gated 55+ Sun Outdoors community runs bingo and movie nights out of a spacious clubhouse, with a heated pool, miniature golf and four catch-and-release fishing ponds; one TripAdvisor reviewer called it the best RV park they have ever stayed in, and guests repeatedly cite how friendly the community is.

Skip: Bringing the grandkids to stay — it is an age-qualified 55+ community. It is also a Davenport address, a longer haul to the theme parks than the Kissimmee-proper resorts.

Local detail: RV sites and rental units in a gated community at 3700 US-17/92 N in Davenport (Loughman), with free Wi-Fi and on-site laundry; book through Sun Outdoors.

Twenty-six Orlando-metro campgrounds and RV parks cleared our 25-review evidence bar in this category; these are the top 10. Part of Orlando Citizen’s Top Businesses in Orlando series. Net Scores are recalculated from fresh public review data each edition.

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