B’s Marina & Campground

I pride myself on internet research. My college years were spent searching the corners of Facebook to find out if cute guys in my classes were single, and over the years I have honed my Internet skills to a science. I can find anything I need in detail and get a pretty good picture of what a place looks and feels like, without ever stepping foot there. On our trip to Florida, however, we discovered quickly that many of our destinations looked nothing like the pictures on Google. What looked like serene, spacious, untouched swimming holes were actually ten foot wide concrete boat ramps with speed boats flying by every five seconds and two hundred tourist swimming at. That seemed to be the norm for the locations we tried to go to on our trip, and our campground was no different, except rather than being disappointed when we pulled up, we were pleasantly surprised with the marina-campground mash-up. What looked like just an average, okay campground online, ended up being a unique, beautiful campground dripping with Spanish Moss along the banks of the Withlacoochie River in Yankeetown, Florida.

B’s Marina and Campground has one main building with the offices and bathrooms/showers, and then it has spots for campers, a couple of AirBNBs, and an area for tents to be put up all within a close, easy to walk area. It’s a nice quiet campground (or at least it was while were there). If you ended up on this post because you were googling reviews of B’s Marina Campground, here’s the long story short: awesome campground, really nice bathrooms and showers (nicest ones I’ve ever seen at a campground) but the peninsula for tents can flood if there is heavy rains. Camper Trailers are pretty close together but that didn’t seem to be a problem, and of course, it’s Florida so bring bug spray. It was pretty centrally located- it took us 15 minutes to get to the Crystal River, a little farther to Rainbow Springs, and 15 minutes to get to the beach but the drive was quick and easy (it does have a closer beach for putting in boats and such but there isn’t really anywhere for kids at that beach).

We camped out on the Peninsula which was absolutely beautiful. There was a nice breeze off the River (the Withalachoochie) and every day we saw tons of fish, turtles, and even a few alligators (not on the shore or anything). In the winter they say you’ll see dolphins and manatees all around the peninsula and docks. In the tents area they had a couple of fire pits, picnic tables, an outlet by one of the AirBNBs to run extension cords, and plenty of room for tents. The owners were really nice and let us have the run of the peninsula with Brandon’s siblings.

There is a cute stage where they have concerts, a camper-turned restaurant with all the Southern classic comfort foods, a giant swing, and plenty of areas to fish from or sit and enjoy the view. I caught the biggest catch of my life off the tip of peninsula.

There were a lot of other cute details and decorations there, like the boat-turned-herb garden, chicken coop, and tree of lost rods and reels.

We would love to go back and spend a few more days there. The concerts they hold look like classic, down home Florida fun. Once of my favorite concerts I’ve ever been to was at a different campground down in Florida, they know how to have fun!

If you’ve made it this far, here are more of the pictures I took at the campground, it was so pretty it was easy to get tons.