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Silver Springs State Park’s campground offers Cabins, RV and Tent Sites, and Group Primitive Camp Sites.
Located beneath shady oaks and beautiful pine trees, Silver Springs’ vacation cabins accommodate up to six people.
Each cabin has a full dining area, two bedrooms, one bath, stove, refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher, gas fireplace (October 1 to April 30), central cooling and heating and a large screened porch.
Fifty-nine spacious sites in two campground loops easily accommodate even large camping units, with a maximum recreational vehicle length of 50 feet. Tent campers are welcome as well. Each site offers water and electric hook-up, as well as a fire ring, barbecue grill and picnic table.
The primitive group camping area, set amid shady oaks, is for organized groups only, with preference given to youth groups. The area includes picnic tables and fire rings at each site.
Non-potable water is available and there are no shower facilities.
For more information and to make a group reservation for primitive camping, please call the Ranger Station at (352) 236-7148. This number is for primitive group camping reservations only.
Silver Springs State Park is located east of Ocala, 1 mile south of SR 40 on SR 35.the entrance is located on State Road 35. At the intersection of SR 40 and SR 35, go south (turn right heading east or turn left heading west), travel about 1 mile and the entrance is on the left, or east side of the road.
Silver Springs State Park
5656 E Silver Springs Blvd,
Silver Springs, FL 34488
There is a fee to enter the park, but if you pay for camping, entry fee is included.
Primitive camping - call the Ranger Station at (352) 236-7148
The park is open 8 a.m. to sundown, 365 days a year. Portions of the park may be closed during concerts or other special events. Please check the activities for applicable hours.
The springs are beautiful. We’ve gone paddle boarding here many times, renting and bringing our own. The loop is easy and can be made in less than an hour, if you’re in a hurry. The long trip down the river is so fun and the gators, monkeys and all the fish and birds make the paddle so fun. This is definitely something worth doing a few times.
Lots to do at this state park. I rented a kayak, walked the paved trails and explored the unpaved hiking areas. Saw some manatees while kayaking. Looking forward to a return visit and would recommend.
Beautiful park, but kind of run down. Looks like they might be in the process of renovating it though. We rented kayaks and did the short unguided tour. Felt like it was enough to see the area and a few manatees. Kinda hard to see the manatees under the water unless they are in the shallow water and you are right beside them. Not as many as we expected to see, but still a nice way to spend the afternoon.
Beautiful place a lot of trails a garden out of mates. We did the kayak we bring our kayak you can rent in the place you have a beautiful trail with the kayak. You can see all the kind of animal birds, monkeys mates and if you already pay for the campground, you don’t need to pay for the park And also if you don’t want to go today park you can just bring your own kayak and put in the water and start the trail. It’s very beautiful place quiet and it was not out of people. The water temperature is 72 but you cannot go inside the water in this place, very recommend! Enjoy your trip
Kayak rentals where a bit pricey ~($45/$60) and line was long to get shuttle tickets but it is definitely worth it to kayak this river it was gorgeous and see-through the whole 5 mi downstream trip the shuttle cost 15 additional dollars to get back to your original parking spot. We saw tons of monkeys, river otters, alligators, birds and other wildlife. It was beautiful and shaded/had tree cover approximately half the trip so I did not get sunburn even though I forgot my sunscreen. Took about 3 hours to go down all the way down stream.
