Roadside Chronicles: Life On The Road: Jonathan Dickenson State Park

Jonathan Dickenson State Park is one of our favorite places to travel in our rv for the winter.

Sun Set From The Campsite

view of campground from our site

We have stayed in this park numerous times and will be here two weeks this time. It has two separate campgrounds. One newly renovated campground/Pine Grove and an older one by the visitors center/River Campground (a few miles into the park). I am a sucker for new/modern conveniences so that is the one we stay at. This newly renovated park is wide open…hardly a tree in site but the sites are very well spaced AND it has sewer hook up for those that care about that
sort of thing. The Pine Grove campground will
accommodate any size RV as the spaces are huge.

bike path in Jonathan Dickinson SP

The only thing that is missing is washers and dryers (assuming you have your own wifi). Biking to the visitors center/river campground is done partially on a bike bath and partially on park roads so either way, it is pretty nice and paved….roughly 5.5 miles from our campsite to the vistors center. Other activities include kayaking and a river tour.

3 picture panoramic from Hobe Tower/David trying out his new camera

view from Hobe Tower

We (David, Patty & Ed...donna down with back issues) kayaked up river from the Park to Trapper John's cabin. Nice lazy kayaking up a very winding river. We saw many varieties of birds, lots of jumping fish, a large manatee with its baby, a few larger alligators, and 18 baby alligators (less than a foot long...have never seen babies before). When we arrived at Trapper John's there was a ranger awaiting the boat tour who answered many of our questions.

Gopher Tortoise

One night we sat out in our old chairs (chairs dating back to when kaete did field hockey and graham did Lacrosse and believe me they look it)…and had a beer. We notice a dragonfly or two (nice sized ones) flying about, then we noticed more and more. When we looked up they were dancing all around the sky and there Were lots of them…more than I’ve ever seen in my life. A pleasant site as you don’t see many of them and especially not the big ones in New York.