Come January, Naples fills back up with its season crowd. Evenings start with dinner under the royal palms on Fifth Avenue South and end out on a beach dock as the sun drops into the Gulf, and by the next morning the heated pool back at the resort is busy before the beach is. The motorhome stays parked on the Tamiami Trail from the first night to the last, so nobody packs anything up between days.
Snowbirds have made a habit of wintering this way, and the resort belt along the Trail is set up for a rig that doesn't move all week. Neapolitan Cove RV Resort has full-hookup sites with water, sewer and 30/50-amp electric, plus a heated pool, so the air conditioning runs, the tanks drain at the site and there's no trip to a dump station halfway through the week. Lake San Marino and the Naples/Marco Island KOA are two more names you'll hear from people who come back every winter.
Marco Island is the beach day, south of town where the Gulf shore starts breaking up into the mangrove islands that run on toward Everglades City. Go down for the afternoon, stay on the sand through sunset, and come back to a pad that's still plugged in. If it's just the two of you, the Naples campervan page covers the beach at Delnor-Wiggins Pass north of town and the quiet estuary nights at Collier-Seminole, where the Tamiami Trail runs into the mangroves.
The catch is that Naples parks fill for January through March by late summer, so reserve the site before you book the rig, and let the park's length limit for that site decide how big a motorhome you rent. February and March also bring spring training to Fort Myers, and those weeks pull on the same rigs and the same Gulf Coast pads as the snowbird season, so line up both bookings together. The ballpark version of the trip is on the Fort Myers RV page.
Everglades City and the Ten Thousand Islands, down SR-29
East of Naples the Tamiami Trail runs out into the cypress, and SR-29 drops south off it to Everglades City and on to Chokoloskee at the end of the road. This is where the Park Service boat goes out, a canvas-topped pontoon running the tea-colored Barron River into Chokoloskee Bay, where mangrove islands crowd the water in every direction and the people at the rail spot dolphins, manatees and now and then a sea turtle. Of all the days in a Naples week, it's the one the kids will still be talking about on the drive home.
The Ten Thousand Islands cruise runs year round, lasts about 90 minutes and needs a reservation. As of October 2026 the Park Service lists a temporary departure point while the Gulf Coast Visitor Center is under construction, so confirm where the boat leaves when you book.
There's no park campground at Everglades City, so the night after the boat is either the drive back to the Naples pad or a stay on the island at Chokoloskee Island Park. If you'd rather sleep out in the cypress, Monument Lake in Big Cypress is a little farther east on the Trail past the SR-29 turn, a campground on a lake where the sky goes orange over the water at dusk. The preserve's other rig night is Midway, which the Park Service lists with electrical hookups, and that trip belongs to the Miami RV page.