KNOT AT SEA: RV Parks Near the Beach

Having lived in Florida most of our lives, we have a hard time going anywhere unless its close to a beach. A little over a year ago we bought our first RV and our search began for RV parks and campgrounds near the beach. There are only a few scattered around the Sunshine state and I think we have stayed in most of them already, until this weekend. There is a little known secret place in paradise in the Jensen Beach area out on Hutchinson Island where you can rent or own an RV lot, and some of them are waterfront lots.

Beachfront at Shuckers Island Beach Resort and Restaurant

Hutchinson Island is a barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean lying East of Stuart, Jensen Beach and Port St. Lucie that is accessible by two big causeways from the mainland. This stretch of oceanfront is filled with condos and restaurants with access to some of the most beautiful beaches on the East coast of Florida.

South Hutchinson Island

The area along the back side of the island overlooking the Intra Coastal Waterway was developed many years ago with waterfront mobile home parks that have now been converted to ownership communities as modular home condominiums, and some are still occupied with older mobile homes but many of them are being replaced with fancy modular homes while some are converted to RV lots with full hookups. There are several parks to choose from, Holiday Out, Nettles Island and several other smaller parks that offer rental sites. These aren't the traditional RV parks everyone is use to finding in a Google search. You can find them mostly in the real estate listings for sale or rent since these parks are condominium or coop ownership parks. Here is a site I found that shows some of the available rentals in Venture III:

https://www.vrbo.com/vacation-rentals/usa/florida/central-east/hutchinson-island/venture-3

We are fortunate to have a friend who owns an RV lot in Venture III and he had a vacancy the last 2 weeks in July, so we decided to park our Discovery there and enjoy a couple of extended weekends there. I drove the RV up from West Palm Friday afternoon and setup on the site.

Dockage for Knot At Sea

We have good friends who live in nearby Stuart, just 15 minutes away and Debbie drove up after work. We all settled in and went out for a bite to eat at a beachfront restaurant nearby, called Shuckers. Everything you need is located nearby on the island, from convenience stores, grocery, pubs and lots of public beach access.

More about Venture III, Venture Out and Holiday Out, a combined residential mobile home community, where we were parked. These sites are only available for monthly or seasonal rental, and not the traditional daily or weekly occupancy found in most RV parks. So if you're looking for and extended stay near the beach or even a waterfront site to dock your boat right out the back door, I highly recommend this park for anyone who loves the island and beachfront lifestyle. This community is very friendly, everyone waves as they go by with a nice mixture of young and old. The community pool is a great place to relax and stay cool in the hot summer months and also meet some of the owners in this community. Here's an aerial photo of where we are parked, and a few more photos of our first weekend on Hutchinson Island.