Monument Lake Campground

Excellent area. We stayed at site 4, huge tent only site. Everything is exposed so be prepared. Heavy dew and bring a thermacell ...or two.

Super nice camp hosts. Clean and spacious.

Just stayed the night not much to do in park except visitor centers

We had a blast watching the 3 to 5 gators in the lake. All back in sites. The campground is beautiful, take a walk in the morning mist! Lots of biking (gravel)/ORV trails right from the campground. The campground is 5 mi from the Oasis Visitor Center - a definite must see. The hosts were excellent.

This is a nice place to camp during the cooler months if you’re lucky enough to secure a site with ALL the out of State/Country people who usually book all theses type sites months in advance and have no issue bragging that it’s much cheaper then a commercial campground even if they don’t use them. Most have become experts at booking a day or two at one site and then moving to another doing the same thing over & over again. All of the public campgrounds are booked like this throughout the entire Winter months and almost none of these people are actually camping. They are using the campground as an inexpensive place to park their 40+ rolling box that they roll in, crank up a generator and run it almost non stop from 6am to 10pm. Many of the sites at Monument Lake are very close with neighboring site picnic tables right next to a generator exhaust pipe and most of these people have little to no concern for campers who are actually trying to enjoy the camping experience OUTDOORS as most of them sit inside their excessively large camping unit the majority of their time spent at the campground.

Don’t come here during the Winter expecting an outstanding dark sky experience as there will
Likely be tons of lights beaming from these special friends of ours who are dodging the extreme climates of where they came from.

If you want to battle the summer heat and the rainy season bring plenty of mosquito repellent and I’m sure there will be plenty of sites available but keep in mind you might just have to get use to the constant roar of these generators as the sites DO NOT have electric.

I stayed at site#7. When booking, the site map showed only tent camping sites in that area and no other sites from #7 up to the lake but to my surprise, there were several occupied RV pads very close to my site, obstructing the view of the lake.

Great location. Close to Everglades and other activities. Host was great. Flat sites some had shade.

This is a lovely little campground conveniently about half way across the state. Sites were spacious and level. Bath house was clean and well maintained. Camp host was friendly and informative. (We were in Site 3. Sites on the other side of the lake probably had a more dramatic view of the sunset.

We visited Shark Valley and needed somewhere to stay the night. This campground was close proximity, had great WiFi, and the bathrooms are the cleanest I’ve ever experienced from a campground.
We fished (steered clear of the gators and snakes) and caught a couple small mouth bass. There were A LOT of bugs at night so definitely bring the bug spray!

Nice campground and nice Lake. All gravel and grass sites but with fire ring and picnic table. Restrooms far from RV sites, close to tent area and there is a shower.