Hi Folks
Anyone have any experience staying in National park campgrounds in FL and SC in the winter months if so were they filled up or easy to get into and what is the max stay time.  Thanks

Yes there are a number of nice state parks in Florida. Here is the website I use when I plan a trip to one of them, I hope this helps if you hit our state:
http://floridastateparks.org/findapark/stateparksmap.cfm

If given a choice, I would pick Florida over South Carolina for an extended stay. South Carolina winters tend to be cold and rainy and many of the State Parks close sections of the campground and sometimes the water is turned off to prevent pipes from freezing! I lived and camped there for 40+ years. I would visit SC in the spring or fall. JMHO
Much more to see and do in Florida too.



Here are some good links to both>>>

http://www.floridasmart.com/sciencenature/naturalflorida/parksstate.htm

http://www.bing.com/search?q=state%20and%20national%20parks%20in%20florida&mkt=en-us&FORM=TOOLBR&DI=6244&CE=14.0&CM=SearchWeb

http://www.bing.com/search?q=state%20and%20national%20parks%20in%20south%20carolina&mkt=en-us&FORM=TOOLBR&DI=6244&CE=14.0&CM=SearchWeb

http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/

http://home.nps.gov/applications/parksearch/state.cfm?st=sc

http://www.nps.gov/index.htm

http://www.us-national-parks.net/state/fl.htm

-- Edited by azrving on Saturday 25th of September 2010 09:00:40 AM

We spent the winter in Florida last year and both the national and state parks are very difficult to get into, because they are very nice and much less expensive than commercial campgrounds. I'm going to guess that most of them are booked up already. Good luck,

Thanks I guess I will stay south

Did you mean the National Forest campgrounds in Florida? We stayed in the Ocala National forest campgrounds just east of Ocala in 09. Fore lake is where we stayed after we drove through two of them in end of Feb/beginning of March and they were half empty. These are rustic campgrounds with no hookups at the sites. Fore lake did have a shower house with water spigots around the park to fill tanks and a dump station. But the nearby Lake Eaton didn't have a dump station or shower house, just pit toilets. No electric at either. Fore Lake was $12 a night, Lake Eaton was $8 a night , and down the road a ways was Salt Springs at $22 a night with electric and water. We found these parks to be roomy, quiet, all natural shrubbery and trees and level sites. A far contrast to the commercial parks we drove through that were packed in like sardines, 10 feet between campers. The National Forest campgrounds are "Our Kind of Place" .....