Great location in Paradise! If you want a waterfront site directly on the water, this is the perfect spot. Fishing is great in the Bahia Honda Channel: grouper, tarpon, many reef fish. We were able to kayak directly from the site. There are 4 miles of road to bike on. There are 3 beaches with sand to chose from. You can snorkel from shore or sign up for an offshore tour. In addition, you are only 37 miles from Key West. If you are looking for a tent site avoid the Bayside Campground, it smelled like rotten eggs the entire week. Sandspur would be an excellent choice for tent or pop up campers. Buttonwood is for the RVs. Try to avoid the sites near the restroom since the dump station and garbage are also located there. I look forward to returning. You will probably need to reserve your spot 11 months in advance since this is a very popular and economical choice for the Keys. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Easy in and out. Gate attendant is friendly. Paved roads but gravel sites.Great nature center and employee. Nice bath, clean and bleach odor. Stayed 5 days. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Nice paved interior roads & gravel camp pads. Dump site is easily accessible for big rigs. The beaches (3 of them ) are great as is the sunset from on top of the old bridge. Yes there is some road noise, but you are in the Key and almost everything is 'just off the hwy' . The only draw back to this park is that it is almost impossible to get a reservation for a site. Reservations can be made up to 11 months in advance. We managed to get a site for 1 nite. (someone must have cancelled) Just for grins I checked the web site & discovered that this site is booked every nite for the next 11 months. So plan ahead if you want to stay here. FYI - if you are a tent camper - Sandspur sites 62-72 are RIGHT ON THE WATER and beautiful. We camped here in a Motorhome.
This is a beautiful campground. The sites a closer together than in some state parks, but had plenty of privacy because of the shrubs between the sites. The sites are quite level and clean but if you have a tent bring lots of spikes instead of stakes as the limestone is like cement. A great place to sit and enjoy a tropical paradise and sip a margarita! We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Pros: Great winter weather. Friendly rangers with excellent ranger talks. Historic content preserved (Old railroad bridge). Nice Beach. Some spaces are right on the ocean! Boat launch ramp and place to park your small boat very close. Great fish restaurants nearby (Key Fisheries three times in a week). Fresh ocean breeze. Cool nights. Cons: Highway noise pretty severe in campground. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
After reading so many nice comments at Woodalls forums regarding Bahia, we weren't all that impressed. They had signs stating to conserve water and electricity, yet the mens bathroom had a missing shower head so the water would pour out, when this occured, the toilets wouldn't always flush properly, so to say the least we had several occurences of plugged up toilets in both the mens and ladies bathroom, which weren't cleaned all that well. There are no doors or screens on the bathroom entry doors that made for some major bug problems with skeeters, that even the park staff said were the worse they had seen in years, and made sitting outside darn near impossible at times, especially in the evening's. As for the beach, if this is rated as one of the top beaches in the nation, they haven't seen some of the wonderful beaches along the Great Lakes (of course the water is a little cooler). At high tide the beach was covered in seaweed, and had small bugs flying all around it, at low tide we could sit out in chairs in the water. The snorkeling was nice though. The ocean front sites have a great view of Hwy 1, with quite abit of noise from the Hwy, we didn't realize how close the Hwy was going to be. We think we would've liked Long Key better since the view isn't wasted on a HWY. There is a dumpster in the area between sites 38 and 45 and the smell in this area was terrible, I wouldn't even consider a spot in this area as it was that bad (think rotting fish guts in 90 degree temps and you'll have an idea). The camp store closes at 5 PM and doesn't carry any groceries, but ice is available. The kids liked getting ice cream, besides that the store was kinda of worthless. We heard that there was a park ranger that patrolled the area, but we only saw them on two occasions in 5 days, but there were no real problems with noise or rowdy's. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Nice park but would advise tent campers to get in the sandspur section the rest of the campground is too close to the highway and is noisy. We camped here in a Tent.
If you tow a boat they will remove from motorhome with a small tractor, launch boat, park
trailer in storage lot and you can drive boat around to your camp site.Great service, marina and fuel on site. We camped here in a Motorhome.
Starting in May I had some business in Big Pine Key that required that I be there for a couple of months so I decided it would be more convenient and cheaper to bring my trailer. I happened upon Breezy Pines and because it was the beginning of the slow, summer season I was able to rent a nice, shady spot for $650.00 per month including water, electric, cable TV and wireless internet. The wireless is very strong and the connection has been great. I find it to be a bargain for the Keys. This is not a luxury park but the sites that are available are fairly large, generally clean and quiet. The bathroom facilities consist of one ladies and one men's and each has two showers. They are fairly clean and they are not used a great deal because most of the people that are here are permanent or semi-permanent. The park is oin the process of attempting to convert the sites to condominium and they are trying to sell each individual sites. However, there are some sites that are empty and available. I have been here for almost three weeks and have had no real complaints. There are laundry facilities, a large club house and the pool is very clean and nice. I was very hesitant about staying here because the park had never been reviewed, but I am very satisfied. The location is great and the price could not be better and the management is always around to make sure everything is OK. An extra benefit is the park is in the middle of the key deer habitat and the deer just walk all around the park and will approach you without fear. This is the off season and things could be quite different in the winter. I would be certain that the park is full in the winter and that the prices are much higher. For me this was a nice find and I would not hesitate to stay here again. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
Nice resort but need some work. Some of the roads had big pot holes that filled with water after a rain. The little building that housed the restaurant was almost rotted apart. The staff was very nice and eager to help. I would return for another stay. We camped here in a Motorhome.
We were terribly disappointed on our trip to this campground. We had been here before and loved it but this trip was a nightmare. Office was torn apart and unfinished (yes, I know they can't help that) but their attitude in the office seem to match the look. We had made reservations over the Internet and were given a price and confirmation. When we got there, we went in and the office woman told us our site number and that was it. I said can we have a map so we can find it? We were not given a receipt or any paperwork. Driving to our site, we were shocked to see all the golf carts with kids driving and adults driving around on golf carts with open beer bottles hooting and hollering. Our site would have been big enough but person next to us took 5 feet of our site for their motorhome, canopy, boat, and 2 trucks. Spanish music was blaring from 4 different sites so we were surrounded with noise. One man across the street called us over and told us that it is like this every weekend all summer. He said you missed the fireworks last night. More than half of the campground was filled with what appeared to be gypsies, large refrigerator, freezers, and dog houses in most of these sites. No poop pick up from any of them, no donuts on their sewer hook up, and the noise was unbearable. Another couple comes over and says they have been coming here for years but never again. Each "gypsy" style campsite has a canopy next to their coach or trailer with privacy mesh wrapped around it. They had their sofas outside and most sites had 10 to 20 people sitting around drinking. We went to the office to to get a receipt and complain and the office woman said that these people come every summer and are guests just as we are. I told her that this will be our last trip to this "Resort" and her answer was: "well, goodbye" When we looked at our receipt, we saw where they added $3 per day for "using the resort" As our one neighbor stated, none of us that play by the rules can use any of the resort facilities due to the misuse of their other "guests" We camped here in a Motorhome.
Not a lot of choices in the Keys for reasonably priced Campsites as the State Parks are booked months ahead of time. We arrived here on the first day of the 'low season' and paid 65.00 a night for a site that was 125.00 the previous night. The sites are not paved and the interior roads were full of potholes & flooded on the 2 days it rained. The restrooms are small and in need of some updating as is the very small pool. The laundry room was adequate but we were disappointed that the clubhouse & book exchange were already locked up. The good news is that this campground is located right on the water - Gulf on one side, Atlantic on the other. However there is no place to swim. They do have a Marina & docks where you can leave your boat for the season (for a fee). This campground is located right at the southern end of the famous 7 mile bridge ( out of Marathon ) and it took us about 1 hour to drive to Key West. If we ever return to the Keys I don't think we would stay here, we would try for the State Parks or a campground closer to Key West or Key Largo. We camped here in a Motorhome.