Florida Tent Camping - Fun All Around The Year!

Florida offers year-around opportunities for tent camping for its subtropical climate characterized by hot and humid summers and moderately cold winters. The nature of mild winter weather is good enough for one to make use of a summer tent (available in three varieties of the season, one-two-season or the hot version). However, if one is camping in the summer or spring, be sure to safeguard against surprise showers.

It can also make use of an overwrap or a shed to prevent the inflow of water. On days when the forecast shows showers likely, you better put a three-season tent well ventilated for added protection from the rain.

The tents one season and three seasons usually have a mesh that allows the gulf and ocean winds while filtering out unwanted insects. The tents that the function or the hidden-in mosquito net, network, or zip-up doors, preventing Florida six varieties of deadly snakes - rattlesnakes wood, Southern Copperhead, dark pygmy rattlesnake, Cottonmouth, coral snake and the snake Eastern diamond rattlesnake venturing inside.

People who are used to such land normally pitch their tents at a considerable distance from the tall grass, Titi, brush, saw palmetto groves, mounds of rock and wet areas near swamps, rivers and swamps that are the usual reasons breeding snakes. It is always recommended that you shake your camping gear well before use.

If you look up online, many websites classify destinations tent in Florida in the following five areas:

- Western North Florida (Pensacola, Tallahassee and Panama City)

- North-East of Florida (Gainesville, Jacksonville and Starke)

- Central Florida (Ocala, St. Augustine and Lakeland)

- South Western Florida (Sarasota, Naples and Sebring)

- Southeast Florida (Key West, Miami and Key Largo)

An interactive map of Florida with all the state parks and all the above areas are available on the website of the Florida Division of Recreation and Parks: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/parks/default.htm.

Florida offers a total of 159 parks covering more than 723,000 acres of natural habitat, including wetlands, forests, rivers and many lakes for fishing, swimming, hiking, boating and camping. If you're more of a coast lover with a penchant for the sea, sun and sand, then you have a choice to pitch a tent in the campsite which extends up to 100 miles from the coast along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

In addition to privately owned sites and state parks, there are many other opportunities for tent camping in Florida beaches and national parks. More information about these can be obtained from the following website: http://home.nps.gov/applications/parksearch/state.cfm?st=fl.

Florida also has 4 national forests that are very primitive and provide several campsites that do not require reservations. You can refer to the website of the National Forest http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/florida/ for more details and directions.

As for wildlife, it is highly unlikely that there was evidence of the presence of the animal, Florida Panther, while camping in Florida. If you come across an alligator in Florida or the American Black Bear, you should give them room to pass. It is very likely come to feel a song Sweet Bird of the state of Florida, Northern Mockingbird. It will make or sing his own composition or make a cover of the sounds produced by other birds for you! If tent camping in the central part of Florida, Florida Scrub Jay will see the danger, while in pine forests, you may want to look out for the Red-cockaded woodpecker is almost extinct.

If relaxing in the parks costs, you pelicans, gulls and terns well within your range of vision. In addition there may be spotted herons, egrets and many other long-legged birds. With such excess of natural beauty in the form of forests, wildlife, water and climate, tent camping in Florida will be a pleasure, even under an overcast sky .......