Spring training fills Fort Myers from late February into March, two big-league camps in one city and a full month of afternoon baseball. At JetBlue Park the Red Sox play in front of their own Green Monster, the tall green left-field wall built after Fenway's, and they've called the park home since 2012. The Twins have trained at Hammond Stadium since 1991, inside the Lee Health Sports Complex, under a grandstand Visit Fort Myers likens to Churchill Downs.
Families who come for the games tend to stay the whole week, and that's where a motorhome earns its keep: one resort pad, plugged in from the first night to the last, with the ballparks, the pool and the beach all in play. Sun Retreats Estero Bay, on US-41 on the Estero side of town, is the close-in base, an all-ages park that allows pets, with full hookups on concrete pads. Encore Fort Myers Beach on San Carlos Blvd is the other base, for families who want the Gulf as much as the ballgames.
Those same weeks are the height of snowbird season, when the winter crowd wants the same resort sites. Baseball families and snowbirds are chasing the same pads and the same rental rigs on the same dates, so reserve the site first and book the rig to fit it. If both resorts are full, the Visit Fort Myers RV park list is the next place to look. Port St. Lucie and St. Petersburg run spring-training weeks of their own, and the Florida RV page lays out all three.
On a day without a game, the Edison and Ford Winter Estates make the outing by day from the pad, the winter homes Thomas Edison and Henry Ford kept side by side on the Caloosahatchee. The banyan canopy and the riverfront gardens are what people remember, and you're back at the rig in time for dinner.
Fort Myers Beach and the Gulf at sundown
Fort Myers Beach runs seven miles of white sand into shallow green Gulf water, the kind of shoreline where kids wade a long way out and the whole beach turns west when the sun goes down. For a family in a motorhome, it's a parked week at Encore Fort Myers Beach RV Resort, where the rig stays hooked up and the days go to the sand. Encore's resort page says it books without a membership, and its newer sites have paved pads with full hookups and 30/50-amp service in back-in and pull-through layouts.
Lovers Key's beach, Sanibel's Ding Darling Wildlife Drive and W.P. Franklin North on the Caloosahatchee make a better trip for two in a smaller rig, and the Fort Myers campervan page lays that one out.
Koreshan State Park on the Estero River
Live oaks and palms close over the Estero River at Koreshan State Park, and the campsites sit beside canoe and kayak water. A night or two here breaks up a week of concrete pads, with a morning paddle under the oaks before the next game. State park sites go early in winter, so check the campground's status and site lengths on the Florida State Parks reservation page before you build a night around a 30-foot rig.
For a parked week on a Corps campground instead, Ortona South sits on the Okeechobee Waterway east of the Cape, with boats locking through on the river below, and the Cape Coral RV page covers it.