Nice Camps: Oscar Scherer State Park

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We visited Oscar Scherer State Park located in southwest Florida on August 15, 16, & 17, 2014.

Front Entrance

The following pictures are some of the features and activities available in the park:

Numerous Hiking and Biking Trails

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Green Trail

Lake Osprey Trail

Fresh Water Lake with sandy beach for swimming

Need to watch out for alligators. However, I did not see any during our visit.

Large Picnic Areas by the swimming lake for day visits

Lake Playground

Nature Center with a nice screen room with WiFi

Pathway and walking bridge between the campground and swimming lake.

Canoe Rentals

Kayak Rentals

Click on picture to see the current rates (8/2014)

Canoe/Kayak Launch

Brackish Water Creek for Kayaking or Canoeing

During the Fall, Winter, and Spring the campground has lots of activities

Large Fire pit and movie screen

These pictures are of the playground in the campground

The campground has a paved road and the sites are extremely private. A few negatives: sites share a water hookup location. This means every other site needs to have extra water hoses to reach and it will be running across your site. I did not leave mine hooked up after I filled my fresh water tank. Also, most of the fire rings where located in poor spots not allowing people to sit around them.

Typical Camp Bathhouse. They were clean and in decent condition.

These pictures show numerous campsites throughout the park. The site numbers are on the ground in the front of the spots. Numerous sites are located on the creek.

These are not in any order of preference.

One of the prettier sites was #86, it was extremely large and had huge logs to sit on around the fire pit. Plus it was on the creek. However, it is not very level.