Best Places to Camp from NYC to Miami

How many days do you have for this trip?

Do you want to take scenic rural roads or interstate?

There is a lot of National Parks, State Parks, and National Forest to camp in. You need to get a Road Map that shows all the Parks in Green, then Google each one for the facilities. Good road atlas will show a tent in the Green areas for camping.

We can not list 300 campsites not knowing where and what route you plan to take.

Is there a particular road map or atlas that you recommend or will any one do ?

Thanks so much for your response !

Naomi

For this particular trip, I want it to take as little time as possible which I think is 2 to 3 days due to traveling with young kids.

Thanks again

Get the Rand McNally road atlas--the big one not the tabloid size. Shenandoah, Great Smoky Mountains and numerous national forests near each would be easy routing. Georgia has a bunch of state parks in the northern, mountain areas with ok camping---depends on your routing. The rest fo the statedown to Florida has less to offer outside of the Atlantic coast. You can camp in the Florida panhandle near towns like St Joe and you could add the Okepfenokee Swamp for variety.

From what it sounds like, you just want easy campgrounds right off I95. Although they are busy and expensive, KOA Campgrounds should have everything you are looking for. Day one, I would try to make it to one of the two in NC that are right off I95, Enfield/Rocky Mount or Lumberton. Day two, Jacksonville North, or even better the one in St Augustine. No need to buy an atlas. Just open Google maps, center the area of the map where you want to stop, and search for KOA campgrounds. There are other campgrounds, I just know these are everywhere and have showers.

If you wanted to make a stop after you pass DC area the Pohick Bay Campground may work for you. It's not far off I-95 near Lorton, VA. Typical spot seen here.

There's also a water park thing called Pirates Cove. As for mosquitoes, hard to say....theye've been more active just about anywhere due to all the rain, but it's been drying out.

If you want to make it past Richmond on the first day, Pocahontas State Park is just south of there not far off 95.

I'm sure you know that if you're coming down I-95 thru DC area, you need to be crossing into VA and heading south towards Richmond no later than around 2PM or so or you'll run into horrible traffic all the way to Fredericksburg-weekends included.

Yes, get a large Rand McNally Atlas. It shows many campgrounds in state parks and national forests near I-95. Most campgrounds in state parks are well maintained.

Thanks so much ! Very helpful

Thanks so much !