Peace River Oaks, Bowling Green FL: What $95 Gets You

Most Florida RV parks are a field with numbered rectangles painted on it. That’s fine. That’s most of them.

Peace River Oaks isn’t, and the reason isn’t anything you’d see in a listing. This trip, we learned the owner paid extra to run the water, the sewer and the electric around the oak trees instead of straight through them.

Here’s the thing: nobody puts that in a brochure. The behind the scenes integrity and vision really is the whole difference between this place and the one down the road. The oaks are still standing, the moss is still hanging off them, and in July in central Florida that shade isn’t decoration. It’s the amenity.

John is the owner. He bought the land in 2020, and we’re pretty sure he lives nearby.

What a Peace River campground site actually costs

We stayed on site 56 from July 24 to 27, 2026, booked through Campspot, which is where their own website sends you.

Wasn’t our first time here. We came the first December after we got the RV, and it’s held up. So far it’s been one of our favorites.

Address	1568 E County Line Rd, Bowling Green, FL 33834
RV sites	40, concrete pads
Booked via	Campspot, linked from their own site
Nightly	$85 Sunday to Thursday, $95 Friday and Saturday
Weekly (off season)	$400, electric included
Monthly	from $1,200, electric not included
Included	water, sewer, electric, WiFi
Our site	56, back-in, shaded
Site types	back-in, plus what the site calls “pull-in”
Laundry	none yet, we understand its going into a renovated bathhouse
Propane	on-site exchange, roughly $24 with tax for a 20 lb tank (July 2026)
Every site has	fire pit, Adirondack chairs, picnic table
Dogs	yes, waste stations through the park

Every pad we walked past had the same three things on it. Fire pit, a pair of Adirondack chairs, picnic table. Not a gravel rectangle you furnish yourself.

The weekly and monthly numbers are the ones worth writing down. Off season it’s $400 for the week with the electric included, and right around $1,200 for the month with the electric on top. That’s the kind of deal you go looking for when you’re doing the math on full timing.

If you want shade, 57 has a lot of it. It’s across from 56, not next door. It’s not a better site, it’s a shadier one. It also faces the pasture, so you can see the cattle from the pad, and honestly you can hear them from pretty much anywhere in the park. If you run Starlink, there’s clear northern sky behind that row.

The WiFi isn’t one transmitter at the office hoping for the best. There’s a box on about every other site, and the tents each have their own on a pole.

The glamping tents each get their own bathroom

We walked the tents Sunday morning. We’d never looked at them properly before. They sit in a row along the river under the oaks. Canvas roofs, wood fronts, air conditioning, a porch, and a hot tub if you pay for one.

The thing that got us is the bathrooms. Every tent has its own, in a separate little building, assigned to that tent. Not a shared bathhouse. Yours.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t see that coming. You can leave your towels in there.

Here’s the catch: it’s detached. Your bathroom is your own and it’s also outside. At two in the morning in a Florida summer, that’s worth knowing before you book.

The bathrooms themselves are better than they need to be. Air conditioned, tiled, full size shower. I noticed them the first time we came here, before any of this was a blog post. You park in a lot and carry your stuff down on carts they leave out for you.

There are three bunkhouse RVs back in the back if you want to stay in a rig without owning one. Those run $265 a night with a two-night minimum, and they come set up: fire pit, gas grill, Adirondack chairs, and their own trash can. You can tell those three aren’t going anywhere. The plumbing is PVC instead of the flex hose everybody else runs, which is what you do when you’re not moving for a season.

What to know before you book Peace River Oaks

• Ask for a shaded lot if you’re coming in summer. Angie’s rule: “In the winter months I don’t mind staying over there by the pasture, because it’s not hot. But when it’s hot, I want to be in shade.” The open lots by the pasture are great in January and rough in July.
• July here is an inside-in-the-middle-of-the-day trip. We did everything outside in the morning and again in the evening, and sat inside from about eleven to four. That’s not a knock on the park. That’s central Florida.
• The pool’s built, but it wasn’t open yet. Their own site still has it as “resort-style pool coming soon,” and honestly that’s not far off. When we were there it was finished, filled, fenced, and completely functional. What it’s waiting on is custom handrails so they can get their certificate of occupancy (July 27, 2026). John, the owner, told me that straight out on our way through the store. No certificate, no swimming, and no certificate until the rails are in. It could open any day. Call before you count on it.
• It’s heated, so once it opens this is a winter park as much as a summer one. January is when camping down here is actually pleasant, and a heated pool under those oaks beats a cold one.
• The rules sign is still blank. Bathing load, hours, maximum depth, all empty. No diving, though. That part’s printed.
• There’s no laundry yet. We asked. They’re planning to renovate one of the bathhouses so it stays restrooms but picks up a mini laundry. That’s a future amenity, not a current one, so plan on a run into town. The closest one we could find is a few minutes up the road, in the same building as the Mobil station’s convenience store.
• You can swap a propane tank without leaving the property, and it ran roughly $24 with tax. The cage sits over by the canoe rentals and one of the bathhouses. Ordinary 20 lb tank, same one that goes on a grill. I spotted the cage Saturday and wondered what they charged, which is the only reason I can tell you.
• The monthly rate doesn’t include electricity. The weekly one does. Easy to misread.
• Watch what “pull-through” actually means here. They’re listed, and Angie spotted one, but what we looked at is really a pull-in: you drive in forward and the hookups end up on the opposite side from where you’d expect. Worth eyeballing on the map before you pick one.
• Check-in is noon on an RV site, and eleven for check-out. The glamping tents check in at three instead, which is where we’d picked up the idea that everything was two or three.
• If the grass on a lot is long, nobody’s booked into it. They mow a lot right before somebody shows up. Small thing, but you can read how full the place is at a glance.
• The weekend dinner is worth it and you can prepay. It’s catered by Woody’s Bar-B-Q down the road, and it was well worth the $17, and you can pay for it when you book instead of sorting it out that night.

Who this is for, and who should skip it

This is for you if you’ve got a rig and you want trees. It’s also good value for a long stay, which is a different question from good value for a weekend. If you’re trying to decide whether full timing is affordable, $400 a week with the electric thrown in is a real number.

Families do fine here. Play area, swing sets hung in the oaks, outdoor movie nights on a screen in the field, live music every Friday and Saturday.

When you first pull in there are two buildings that look like tent cabins. One is where they serve the food, with a little bar and a television in it. The other is the store, and that’s where everything happens: check-in, the canoe and ATV and side-by-side rentals, firewood and fire starters, propane. Also s’mores kits, board games, books, a little lending library, clothing, snacks. If you’re staying a while you can have Amazon packages sent there.

The guy you’ll most likely deal with is Dan. He answers the phone as Daniel. He’s the general manager. The owner is John, and I finally met him in the store on the way out, which is where half the numbers in this post got corrected. Great accent, genuinely nice, and he’ll answer a straight question with a straight answer.

Skip it if you want to walk out of the campground to anything. Bowling Green is small and the good barbecue arrives by car. And skip the glamping tents specifically if walking outside to your own bathroom is a turn off.

We’ll come back. Angie already picked the site: 26, across the grass on the other side.

More from around here in our Florida posts, including Armature Works in Tampa. If you’d rather have the strange thing than the campground, try the best place to watch planes land.

Common questions about Peace River Oaks

How much does it cost to stay at Peace River Oaks?

RV sites were $85 Sunday through Thursday and $95 Friday and Saturday when we stayed in July 2026. Off-season weekly rates start at $400 with the electric included, and monthly starts around $1,200 with electric billed separately.

Does Peace River Oaks have cabins?

It has glamping tents rather than hard-sided cabins. Air conditioning, a kitchenette, a porch, and their own private detached bathroom, with a hot tub available for extra. There are also three bunkhouse RVs to rent at $265 a night with a two-night minimum.

Do the glamping tents have their own bathrooms?

Yes. Each tent gets its own private bathroom in a separate little building nearby. It’s not a shared bathhouse, but it is detached, so you do walk outside to get to it.

Is the pool at Peace River Oaks open?

Not quite, as of our stay in July 2026. It’s finished, filled and fully functional, but it was waiting on custom handrails. The owner told us that himself on the way out: the handrails are custom, and that is the only thing holding up the certificate of occupancy required to use the pool (7/27/26). It could literally open up any day, so call ahead. It is heated and meant to be usable year round.

Can you rent a canoe at Peace River Oaks?

Yes, and it’s cheaper than we had it in our heads. It’s $60 per canoe for the downriver run, and that price includes the shuttle back. We didn’t take it this trip, so that’s the number the owner quoted us in July 2026 rather than one we paid.

What time is check-in at Peace River Oaks?

RV sites check in at noon and check out at eleven. The glamping tents check in later, at three, and check out at the same eleven.

Can you get propane at Peace River Oaks?

Yes. There’s an exchange cage on site near the canoe rentals and one of the bathhouses. Just stop in the office and they will help you exchange it. We swapped a standard 20 lb tank in July 2026 for roughly $24 with tax. The store also sells firewood and fire starters.

Does Peace River Oaks have laundry?

Not yet. When we stayed in July 2026 they had plans to renovate one of the bathhouses to add a mini laundry alongside the restrooms. Until that’s done, laundry means a run into town. The nearest laundromat we found is a few minutes up the road, in the same building as the Mobil station’s convenience store.

Is Peace River Oaks dog friendly?

Yes. Dogs are welcome and there are waste stations through the park.