By following the main park road from the Homestead entrance towards Flamingo to the southwest, the 40-minute drive will end at the Flamingo front-country camping area operated by Guest Service’s Flamingo Adventures, a National Park Service authorized concession. At the beginning of the Flamingo campground and looking west, there is a white registration office located in the median between the incoming and outgoing paved campground lanes. From here, the campground is separated into two loops with road access encircling the campsites of each. Following a right turn to the northwest after the registration office, you are taken to T-Loop which is available for RV and tent camping with multiple pull-through style campsites. Trash receptacles are in the center median as you enter this loop following the one-way road to the right. Many sites in this area have electricity and water. Two shower and restroom facilities are in the loop area. The first one has a water source and a sanitary pump-out station for RVs. Some sites have shade trees. A campground host is located at site number 16. If following the road straight to the west from the registration office, A-Loop will be entered which is a tent camping only area. The one-way loop will take you past turn outs for vehicles and campsites. Some sites have shade trees. Two facilities provide showers and restrooms, the first one has a water source and sanitary pump-out station. Most of the campsites in these two loops have picnic table and fire ring access. Additional sites can be found by following the outbound lane from the registration office. By taking an immediate right turn to the southeast, the ECO Tent area will be on the right between the road and Florida Bay connected by a series of slightly elevated walkways. These tan enclosed canvas-like structures are often available in a furnished condition with each having electricity and a fan. Some Eco Tents are wheelchair accessible. Restrooms and water are available at a facility close to the Eco Tents walkway access. Continuing past the Eco Tents towards the east and located on the right is a low-lying grassy area with some fire rings and picnic tables. This is the walk-in tent camping and group site area located between the road and Florida Bay. This area does not have shade available. The restroom and water source facility is located just past the area where the road ends in a loop to take you back towards the registration office and main park road. Parking is available at all loop individual campsites whereas the Eco Tent and walk-in area have small parking lots along the road.

The Flamingo campground is one of two drive-in campgrounds accessible from the Homestead entrance of the park. It offers solar-heated showers, two dump stations, picnic tables, grills, and an amphitheater for seasonal Ranger programs. Flamingo has several hiking trails and canoe trails, and opportunities for saltwater fishing are plentiful. Check at the visitor center for a daily schedule of Ranger guided programs.

The fee covers electric hook-up per site per night. This camping fee does not include the entrance fee to the Park.

A 10% discount is offered to seniors, active and retired military, and Access Pass holders.

Flamingo Campground- RV with electric hook-up (Monday - Thursday, per site per night)

Flamingo Campground- RV with electric hookup (Friday - Sunday, per site per night)

The fees cover a non-electric hook-up site per night. This camping fee does not include the entrance fee to the Park.

A 10% discount is offered to seniors, active and retired military, and Access Pass holders.

Flamingo Campground- tent and non-electric RV (Monday - Thursday, per site per night)

Flamingo Campground- tent and non-electric RV (Friday - Sunday, per site per night)

The fee covers up to 15 people, 5 tents and 3 vehicles per night. This camping fee does not include the entrance fee to the Park.

Flamingo Campground- group site (per night per site)

A blue, gray and yellow tent is pitched on the grass. Palm tree and open field are behind it.

Tent at Flamingo Campground

An open field with tents set up and picnic tables. Four palm trees stand tall in the background.

Flamingo Campground

A white entrance building stands alongside a road with green grass and trees in the distance

Flamingo Campground Kiosk

A parked vehicle with camp supplies and tent in a camp site underneath a tree

A Loop Flamingo Campground

Two white recreational vehicles are in line to register for a campsite. Trees in the background.

RV's Lined Up at Flamingo Campground Kiosk

There are 234 individual drive-in sites (55 with a view of Florida Bay) and 40 walk up sites (9 on waters edge). A total of 3 walk up group sites on the waters edge and 65 RV sites, all the large pull-through type and 41 sites in the T-Loop with electrical hookups. Generator hours are in between 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in T Loop only. No generators are allowed in walk-in campsites or other camping areas. Quiet hours are from 10 p.m. 6 a.m.  Check-out time is noon.

Turning off the main park road to the Long Pine Key day use and camping area, is the pine rockland habitat. Pine rocklands are characterized by tall slash pine trees, with peeling brown bark and high green needles. The ground between the spaced out pine trees is a low lying shrubby mixture of saw palmettos, dense grasses numerous wooded shrubs. Craggy, chalky white limestone characterizes the ground, and can make walking off path difficult. If there has been a fire recently, there can be charred remains of burnt trees and crunch ash on the pineland floor Follow the slowly winding Pinelands road to a forked split to either the campground or a day use area. A slight left will take you to the campground. A white building with a green metallic roof welcomes campers to the Long Pine Key Campground. Behind this entrance station is a small patch of grass containing several garbage receptacles and tall information boards including a map of the campground and interpretive information about fire’s role in the habitat. A red payphone stands next to the information boards. The campground road follows a one-way counter clockwise loop, approximately a mile in length, that is in the shape of an oval. Slash pine trees are the dominant plant species, but a wide variety of small shrubs such as beauty berry and sumac add purple or red to the green foliage. As you follow the road around in a slow arc moving south west, the loop is bisected by alphabetized roads ascending from ‘A’ to ‘K’. Each lettered road has anywhere between 5-7 camping areas. Camping areas include a paved slab for vehicle parking, a mowed lawn area, a circular black metal fire ring with a grill attachment, and a 6 or 8 foot gray picnic table. On alternating lettered roads, the restrooms sit in white buildings with green roofs and have two separate entrances on either side. White cement shower buildings have tall green roofs which are covered by solar panels for water heating. Through the vegetation to the north, there is a large blue human made lake, which surrounds an island with dozens of tall slash pines sitting atop the rocky outcrop. At the loop halfway point lies a small parking area and a paved, lighted walking path leading to an amphitheater. The amphitheater hugs the lakeside shoreline and contains twelve rows of benched seating, bisected by a center aisle. A large white wooden backdrop faces the benches as well as a presentation podium for a speaker. The road begins to circle around the loop and now heads to the northeast. The lettered roads begin to move up from ‘K’ to ‘A’ and there are spaced out camp areas on either side. To the south the Pine Rockland habitat extends for over a mile, with the tall slash pines looming over the campground. Following the road, to its completion the entrance station is approached from the opposite side and you can exit the campground area back to the Long Pine Key Road.

Long Pine Key campground is open seasonally November-May. It is one of two frontcountry camping options run by the “Flamingo Adventures'' concession. Reservations are available for RV’s and tents along with first come first serve sites. If sites are booked, more camping may be available further down the Main Park Road in Flamingo.

The fee covers one site per night. This camping fee does not include the entrance fee to the Park.

 A 10% discount is offered to seniors, active and retired military, and Access Pass holders.

Long Pine Key Campground- tent and non-electric RV (Monday - Thursday, per site per night)

The fee covers one site per night. This camping fee does not include the entrance fee to the Park.  A 10% discount is offered to seniors, active and retired military, and Access Pass holders.

Long Pine Key Campground- tent and non-electric RV (Friday - Sunday, per site per night)

Long Pine Key Campground- group site (per night per site)

Two RV trailers parked at a campground surrounded by tall slash pine trees.

RV's at Long Pine Key

Two visitors are setting up a tent on a campsite at Long Pine Key

Camping at Long Pine Key

A white fees building with green roof welcomes campers

Long Pine Key Camp Entrance

People sit on wooden benches listening to a Park Ranger deliver a program. It is night time.

Amphitheatre at Long Piney Key Campground

A group of three people sit at a picnic table by a pond surrounded by pine trees.

Picnic at Long Pine Key

Long Pine Key Campground

Long Pine Key Campground is open seasonally November - April (closed May to October)

Long Pine Key Campground closed season

Everglades National Park protects an unparalleled landscape that provides important habitat for numerous rare and endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile, and the elusive Florida panther. An international treasure as well - a World Heritage Site, International Biosphere Reserve, a Wetland of International Importance, and a specially protected area under the Cartagena Treaty.