John Prince County Park

John Prince Park in Lake Worth, FL is a few miles south of West Palm Beach. 
This is a large county park with 300 tightly squeezed campsites. Many sites can be reserved for the entire winter season, those along the lake have a 14 day limit. 
Since we were only staying for 12 days that’s where we had hoped to get a campsite, but no luck they put us in a compact section with almost all French speaking Quebecers.

The campground has 300 sites all with electric and water and some with full sewer hookups. There were several reasons we came here. It is pretty far south so the temperatures are usually near 80oF.

The campground is part of a very large city park right off I-95 that has a beautiful 10 mile long paved bike trail that goes entirely around Lake Osborne.


You can also bike into a gated community around a golf course. It is close to grocery stores and shopping centers as well.

We stayed here for a week 4 years ago but we decided it is too unlike the “Real Florida”. We like wild nature and even though there are Wood Storks, Egrets and Herons along the bike path and lake, it is much too civilized for our taste.

There was even a big festival in the park this weekend, called the Garlic Festival, with carnival rides, entertainment and food like garlic ice cream and donuts. Luckily it was a mile away so we were not bothered by any noise. We did not attend.

We will be here until Valentine’s day this coming Friday and we then will head back to the west coast of FL and stay again at WP Franklin Corps of Engineers campground on the Okeechobee River which is the Across FL Waterway from West Palm beach to Fort Myers.