We recently heard about a nearby state park that we were unaware of. Colt Creek State Park is located east of Zephyrhills, FL. Apparently we aren’t the only ones unfamiliar with it because we were able to get reservations on fairly short notice. In fact, we even made reservations to stay there the weekend before Thanksgiving. The park first opened to the public on January 1st, 2007 and the campground was completed in 2018. The campground is very nice. The sites are very long and there is a lot of space between campsites. Since it’s a fairly new campground there is not much shade. Each site has 50Amp power connections and water (no sewer, but there are two dump stations at the entrance to the campground). We had fairly decent reception on our AT&T hotspot. Downloads were generally in the 10 – 15Mbps range allowing us to stream the Rays games with only a little buffering. The TV antenna picked up most of the local channels, but not well enough to watch them.
There are over 15 miles of hiking/biking trails. We took a 3 mile hike from the campground around the lakes. It was a beautiful day and we saw a lot of typical Florida prairie landscape. They had bear warning signs up, but we didn’t encounter any on our hike. We have yet to encounter a bear in any of our travels here or out west.
