Out on the Overseas Highway, somewhere on the Seven Mile Bridge, the keys fall behind the rig until there is open water on both sides. It's the far end of Florida's winter RV loop. A few nights earlier the same rig headed west out of Miami on the Tamiami Trail, where the city gives out fast to sawgrass and cypress domes that stand up out of it like dark islands. In between are alligators sunning on the canal bank beside the Trail and the mangrove edge going black at dusk outside the rig's windows.
This is the trip Florida runs from November through April, when the heat breaks and snowbirds from the north fill the parks, with January to March as the peak and spring training stacked on top of it. Summer turns the calendar around, with hurricane season and heat thinning the crowds. In those months the hookup pad is the reason the rig works at all, because a parked motorhome in July is only as good as its air conditioning.
Big Cypress, Flamingo and the Keys on the winter loop
Miami is night one, and the Miami RV page covers where a rig sleeps at the city end and the Big Cypress base for Shark Valley. Past Shark Valley the Trail cuts into Big Cypress National Preserve, swamp prairie and cypress strands on both sides, and this is where the loop's rhythm starts. Of the preserve's five front-country campgrounds, Midway is the one with electric hookups, so it's the air-conditioned night while the others run on the generator and the tanks. Midway goes by reservation, which makes it the booking to lock in before the rig.
Stay on the Trail west instead of turning south and it reaches the Gulf at Naples, where the Naples RV page has a winter parked week. The loop itself turns south through Homestead to Flamingo, at the far end of the Everglades main road on Florida Bay, and the Homestead RV page has that campground for a rig.
Then it's the Overseas Highway, Key Largo first and Key West at the end of the road. The Keys RV page has the Key West parked week from Stock Island and the middle Keys pads on the way down. If it's two of you and the nights you're after are Bahia Honda and Pennekamp, the Florida campervan page has that trip in a smaller rig.
Spring training on the Gulf and the Atlantic
Late winter in Florida smells like cut grass and sunscreen on a small ballpark's parking apron, the rig a short walk from the gate and a resort pool deck lit up after the last out. The Grapefruit League is the Florida half of MLB spring training, and its ballparks cluster in a few belts where a motorhome can settle in for a week of games.
The Fort Myers RV page has the Gulf-side belt and its resort pads, with Cape Coral across the river for a quieter parked week. The St. Petersburg RV page covers the ballparks around Tampa Bay. On the Atlantic side, the Port St. Lucie RV page has its ballpark week, and the Stuart and West Palm Beach pages carry the weeks farther down the same coast.
Those weeks land squarely on snowbird season, so the ballpark crowd and the winter regulars want the same rigs and the same resort pads in the same weeks. Reserve the pad first and the rig second, and treat the belts as the tightest stretch of the Florida calendar.
Orlando and the I-95 run north
Orlando's theme parks fill a week on their own, the rig parked on a hookup pad with the air running and the evenings ending in fireworks over the parks, and the Orlando RV page has that week. East of the city, a launch week puts you on the Indian River at Titusville with a campground full of people turned toward the pads, and the Melbourne RV page has where the rig sleeps. Cruise America's Orlando page puts Canaveral National Seashore about 1.5 hours from Orlando and the Everglades about 4 hours south, which is how the middle of the state ties back to the winter loop.
North and west of Orlando, Florida turns to clear springs where manatees gather in the cool months, then to the white sand of the Panhandle Gulf. The Gainesville RV page has the springs, and the Fort Pickens, Panama City Beach and Tallahassee pages have the Gulf weeks.
For a rig that isn't coming back, I-95 settles into a long flat run north past palmetto scrub and orange-grove billboards, and the Orlando RV page lays out the coastal nights up the corridor. The shorter one-way, Miami up to Orlando with the Everglades and the Keys at the start, is on the Miami RV page. At the far end, Cruise America runs one-way rentals that finish at a different location from where they start, and its one-way specials page pairs Florida locations with hubs in the North, as of October 2026.