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2026 Season availability
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This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
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- Restrooms
- Showers
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- Picnic Table
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- Hot Water
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Reviews (74)
What Guests Are Saying
Big Scrub Campground offers a clean and well-maintained environment with friendly and attentive camp hosts who enhance the experience. The bathrooms and showers are consistently noted for their cleanliness and hot water availability. While the roads leading to the campground are rough and the area lacks shade, the spacious campsites and access to ATV trails provide enjoyable camping opportunities.
What Guests Are Saying
Big Scrub Campground offers a clean and well-maintained environment with friendly and attentive camp hosts who enhance the experience. The bathrooms and showers are consistently noted for their cleanliness and hot water availability. While the roads leading to the campground are rough and the area lacks shade, the spacious campsites and access to ATV trails provide enjoyable camping opportunities.
Review Summary
Andrius V
VerifiedMarch 18, 2020 • Stayed at: 021, Loop: BIG SCRUB
Excellent host, very flexible. We tent camped and changed our initial site to a nicer site for a tent. The sites are large and have fire rings (some with a cooking grate), picnic tables, and a nice bear box that you can lock if you have a padlock. Some sites may have electricity. There is very limited shade so we brought a beach umbrella and zip tied it to the picnic table. Bathrooms were very clean and well stocked. The road to the campground is well maintained dirt and is 5 mi if you enter from the north or south. Get a site further away from the dirt access roads to avoid any dusty conditions with traffic zipping by. We stayed at site #40 and it was perfect for our tent. We had an ATV and a motorcycle. The initial part of the OHV trail is sandy and pretty tough riding a bike. As the trail splits, it gets better but still sandy for a bike.
Howard B
VerifiedFebruary 24, 2020 • Stayed at: 029, Loop: BIG SCRUB
The trails were a blast however I would recommend one way traffic. There were several occasions that we had close calls at blind corners. The trails are narrow and difficult to pass oncoming traffic
John H
VerifiedFebruary 16, 2020 • Stayed at: 013, Loop: BIG SCRUB
It is a 4 mi ride in to the campground on dirt roads. It would be a great place for OHV toys. We were in a Class B Van and it was a bit rough getting there. For us (since we didn’t have an off road toy with us) the other campgrounds in the National Forest were better.
Johanna Wolfort
February 19, 2019
Found ourselves down a four wheeler trail and got stuck. Oops. But the area is beautiful and plenty of 4x4 trails to have fun on. But if the trucks small enough and you miss the marker you could ended up like us. Made it about 1,000 ft from the trailhead when we got stuck.
Location & Directions for Big Scrub Campground
11990 Se Nationalforest Rd 588, Umatilla, FL 32784 United States
Elevation: 43 ft
Getting There
From I-75 east, travel on State Route 40 to Forest Road 588. Turn south on 588 and go approximately 8 mi. The campground is on the west side of the road.
Highway access
Big Scrub Campground is accessible via US Highway 441, which is approximately 15 miles to the west, and Florida State Road 19, which is about 12 miles to the east.
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
3PM
Check out time
11AM
General
- A copy of the regulations for off-road vehicle use and camping may be obtained from the camp host
- Camping fee covers 2 vehicles maximum
- 14 day stay limit
- No person under 16 shall operate or ride an off-road vehicle without a Department of Transportation approved helmet and eye protection
- Off-road vehicle operators must carry proof of registration/ownership for their vehicle and a have valid sticker; photo identification must be carried at all time for operators 16 and older; children under 16 encouraged to carry identification in case they become separated from supervising guardian; copies of identification are acceptable
- Main entrance gate opens at 8:00 a.m. and closes at 8:00 p.m.
- If it is your intent to rent an RV or trailer from a third party entity, please note that the USDA Forest Service does not allow RV or trailer rentals to be pre-placed and/or delivered to the recreation area. The Reservation holder must drive the RV or trailer to the recreation area as it is their sole responsibility and alleviates the FS from any liability. Any commercial business that operates on federal land is required to have a special use permit. 36 CFR 261.10 (K)(L)
- Click here for more information about Ocala National Forest
- Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
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Last updated: October 18, 2026
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