We stayed for 3 weeks at the Sumter Oaks RV Park in central Florida, over the Christmas and New Years holidays. We picked this place to stay at for a while mostly because we had a lot of trouble finding an RV park anywhere in Floriday that had openings over the holidays, wasn’t REALLY expensive and also took Laddy (some RV parks don’t allow big dogs, or if they do, exclude Dobermans, Rottweillers and Pit Bulls). Since we’re Escapee Club members, we have the option to stay at an Escapees RV park for a really low price.
We LOVED it here! The setting is beautiful, each site is nestled in amongst red oaks with Spanish moss hanging from the branches and ferns growing along the trunk. Our site was in a corner of the park with a pasture on one side where we saw a couple of deer and turkeys, and a cypress swamp on another side where we saw cranes often. The cranes would stroll around inside the park as well, and often they were quite noisy!
Not only was the setting really pretty, the park was very social! They had coffee gatherings every morning; interestingly the women sat together and the men sat together on the other side of the clubhouse. The women said it was because the guys would get so loud! Jeff loved visiting with the men and went to this gathering more often than I did. They also had pot-lucks, cookie exchanges, bonfires, a Christmas dinner and a New Years Eve party.
The only slight negative was the fact that we got NO tv stations! Once in a while one channel would come in, but in a few minutes to a few hours it would fade out. Since we weren’t here to sightsee much, we had a lot of time in the trailer without TV. They did have cable in the clubhouse TV room, so we went there a few times for favorite shows and a couple of football games. They had a small shelf of DVDs to borrow, so we watched some movies we wouldn’t normally have chosen. We also rented from Redbox and I picked up a couple of movies real cheap at Walmart that we watched and left at the clubhouse for others. We managed to get by for 3 weeks, but I’ll tell you I’m glad to be at our next stop with several channels to choose from!
