Camping and RV Parks near Clermont

The Big Two

Thousand Trails Orlando is the volume play. Rated 4.2 from 1,832 reviews, it sits at 2110 Thousand Trails Blvd, a membership-style property that dominates the northern approach to town. It is not quiet. It is not empty. But it is established, with the kind of infrastructure that comes from hosting thousands of rigs a year. If you want a base camp with amenities and neighbors, this is the workhorse.

The counterweight is Lake Louisa State Park Tours & Activities at 7305 US-27, rated 4.9 from 863 reviews. This is the best camping experience in the immediate area, full stop. The state park system runs it, which means real sites, real shade, and real quiet. You trade the resort extras for a landscape that actually looks like old Florida—sandy ridges, oak hammocks, and lake views that justify the climb. The 4.9 rating is not a rounding error.

The Middle Ground

Encore Clerbrook RV & Golf Resort (20005 US Hwy 27N) and Encore Lake Magic (9600 Hwy 192 West) both sit in the 3.9–4.1 range, which is honest territory. Clerbrook has the golf hook, rated 3.9 from 580 reviews, and it sits further north on 27, closer to the county line. Lake Magic, rated 4.1 from 541 reviews, is on the 192 corridor, which puts you nearer the sprawl but also nearer the attractions that brought you here in the first place.

Neither will change your life. Both will get the job done. The difference is logistics—Clerbrook for the golf crowd, Lake Magic for the theme-park commuters.

Bee's RV Resort (20260 US-27) rounds out the commercial options, rated 4.1 from 437 reviews. It is a smaller operation, and the review count tells you that. Less traffic, fewer surprises, but also fewer amenities to lean on. Fine for a long weekend, thin for a season.

The One That Matters

Lake Louisa State Park Campground - Loop A is the sleeper, rated 4.7 from 387 reviews. It is the same park as the Tours & Activities listing, but Loop A is the specific experience—the one you actually book. The site code (C7MG+F2) is a plus code, which tells you something about how far this land sits from the grid. It is not the fanciest campground in Florida. It is the one that feels like you are camping, not parking.

The park is the best argument for why Clermont's terrain matters. The elevation that killed the citrus groves—the freezes that ended that economy by the mid-twentieth century—created a landscape that is genuinely rare in peninsular Florida. You see it from the campground. You feel it on the hills.

The Context

Clermont was established in 1884, incorporated in 1891, and has been through enough political and economic cycles to know what it is. The Florida Citrus Tower, built in 1956, still stands over a landscape whose groves have largely gone. You can see it from several of these campgrounds. It is a monument to an industry that the freezes took, and now it is just a landmark for people looking for their next turn.

The town adopted "Choice of Champions" as its slogan in 2014, on the strength of the National Training Center that opened in 2001. That athletic bent shows up in the camping crowd: cyclists, triathletes, runners who come for the hills. The median age here is 42.4, and the median household income is $79,789—a population that can afford an RV and the gas to move it. Only 558 of the 18,718 housing units are seasonal or recreational, which means most of the people here live here. The campgrounds are the temporary residents' way in.

The Bottom Line

If you want the park experience, book Lake Louisa—either listing, but Loop A if you can get it. If you want the resort experience, Thousand Trails is the safest bet. The Encores and Bee's are backups, not destinations.

The hills are the point. The groves are gone, but the ground they grew on is still here, and it makes for a better night's sleep than any flatland campground in the state.