Post a link to the campground please. I dont even remember the dates i booked for this as my soon to be teip is priority. Please blame the fault on me
Well your dates are right here in post 61:
Ok , i think im in from the 9th to the 17th. Full hook up, too much pavement for me in premium! Besides my pop up will feel better being only slightly dwarfted in the full sites.
That's the top of page 4 of this thread for those of you following along at home.....
So you show arriving at the Fort on Friday, 10/9. Others of us come in on Saturday 10/10.
I have stayed at Lake Lousia State Park (a FL State Park) in Clermont on 5 previous trips. Here is the reason why.
Over the years I have gotten angry with the Fort's ever higher campsite rates. We drive 550 miles +/- to get to the Fort and if we do it in one long day we get there late afternoon. By the time I check in, unload, and set up, it is dinner time (or later) and I am paying over $120 to breathe the Disney air and not much else.
The alternative that I have chosen is to come down I75 and the Turnpike and stop at Lake Lousia State Park (LLSP) which is about $30 for one night. I lay up there then in the morning head to the Fort in the early morning and save almost $100. Of course in early morning, depending on the season, your FW campsite may not be ready. So I spot up in the overlot for a few hours.
But in those few early morning hours I can:
- eat breakfast at Trails End (done that)
- hit the Meadow Trading Post as it opens and scope out new stuff (done that)
- visit DIS members already set up for coffee and conversation (done that-sorry Terri/Greg)
- scope out the remaining Fort Wilderness RailRoad rails left laying in the woods (done that)
At some point I get my site text and roll down and set up.
I personally love early mornings at the Fort.
In the overflow lot I set up my folding chair and wait. It's quiet. I like it.
For LLSP you come down I75 and then slide over onto the Turnpike and take the Hwy 27 exit down into Clermont proper. There is a Wal-Mart Super Center coming into town (on a hill on the left) before LLSP. Then when you leave LLSP on Hwy 27 and heads south in the morning there is a second WMSC on the left (flat) before Hwy 192 in Kissimmee. Only takes 30 minutes from LLSP to the Fort.
If you come down I75/Turnpike earlier in the day, LLSP is irrelevant to you. If you come down I95/I4 at all, it is too far out of your way to stop in Clermont.
Some folks don't choose to stop at a state park and are comfortable at an interstate rest stop further up the line. Your choice.
With a popup, I like rolling in, plugging into shore power, and having a comfort station close at hand. No unhitch required with an Aliner. LLSP site #15 the night before arriving for the Marathon Weekend back in Jan 2015 (trailer still hitched to truck).
Florida State Parks have a booking window 11 months out from arrival and they are on Reserve America's website. (Thus my interest next month for my 1 night ressie)
https://www.reserveamerica.com/explore/lake-louisa-state-park/FL/281108/overview
My strategy will not fit everyone else's. But I like it, use it, and it works for me because on my Fort arrival day I have no other commitments usually other than to get there early, chat with the CheckIn CM's, set up, and enjoy the Fort for the day.
Bama Ed
PS -
will we be doing a group dinner, or breakfast? Or both?
The rough plan is for a group lunch or early dinner on Monday (keep it clear)