Our Florida Camping and RVing Family Journal: "lion country safari"

In November 2011 we rented an RV from Cruise America and drove from So. Miami, Florida to Lion Country Safari KOA campground in West Palm Beach, FL. It was our daughter's 7th birthday choice to rent the RV and her first camping trip.

The Lion Country Safari KOA campground was a great place to stay and we enjoyed it for several reasons. First it is an excellent place for "families" to camp at. They have a nice heated pool, a big playground, a basket ball court, shuffle board, and a KOA store full of anything you would need. Secondly the Lion Country Safari Park is right next door, and if you camp at the campground, you get up to 4 FREE PARK TICKETS FOR TWO DAYS. This is really good since you can easily make it a two day outing.

Lion Country Safari now has 2 parks in one, if you haven't been there in a few years. I hadn't since I was a child. The drive through safari is great, and it's true the earlier you drive through, the more active the animals are. You are given a CD to put in your player which explains the areas and animals you pass. There are dozens of different animals to see, and they do cross in front of the vehicles. Let it be known we drove through in our RV. My advice, go as slow as you want and need to. The lion area is the only area "fenced in", but it is a big area and you can see in it from all sides of your car.

The second park is a combination of a zoo where you can feed the giraffes, and take a boat tour of their monkey island, mini golf, kid rides, and at the end of the 2nd park is a huge splash park for the little ones. Needless to say we did both parks on two separate days.

At the campground there was a hiking trail, people biking around and we saw many couples too. We actually came back to this park again to camp 6 weeks later in tents. The bath house was always very clean and so were the grounds. We think because the parks are right next door, there are lots of families here and if that is what your looking for (which we are), this is one good campground for the kids too. Oh and another GREAT reason to check this place out is because it is probably the only place where you can really hear the lions roaring in the early morning hours, every morning. It doesn't matter where on the campground you are, you'll hear them. That is really cool and we never got tired of it and we heard them both times we camped there.

While camping here, we had a couple of day visitors, Michelle and Damiano. They rode through the safari with us, we did both parks, and they stayed for dinner. We always enjoy camping company!