Ortona South in FL -- Campground & RV Camping in Florida
Ortona South in FL
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allows overnight stays only at the designated sites here.
Ortona South Campground offers flat, concrete-pad campsites lined with native Sabal palms along the Caloosahatchee River. Each site includes 30/50-amp electricity, water hookups, a fire ring, grill, and covered picnic table, backed by flush toilets, hot showers, an RV dump station, and a wooden fishing pier. Day-use visitors fish off the pier for bass and catfish. A boat ramp is located 25 minutes away at Ortona North. Campers can walk across the river dam to access bike routes or head east toward Lake Okeechobee to link up with the Florida National Scenic Trail.
The road in has not been measured -- unknown, not bad. Sits on broad, near-level ground.
Crowded here -- the nearest through road is 0.2 miles off, a 51-site campground. Caloosahatchee River runs 0.1 mi off. Open country -- nothing named rises within 30 miles of here. Most sites here have an electric hookup -- 11 sit on the water, most of them shaded. Night skies measure Bortle 3 -- a dark rural sky. The nearest town, Port LaBelle, is 5.0 mi off.
September normals 72–90°F, 7.2″ rain. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.