Last Updated: May 2026
Chokoloskee Island sits at the southern tip of Florida’s Gulf Coast, a tiny shell-mound island connected to the mainland by a single causeway and surrounded by the vast estuaries of Everglades National Park. We found it by chance — looking for a waterfront RV resort to decompress after the sensory overload of Big Cypress — and ended up with one of our most memorable stops of the entire Florida winter. We stayed at Outdoor Resorts of Chokoloskee Island, a community-within-a-resort where most sites are occupied by full-time residents who head north when summer heat makes the Gulf Coast nearly uninhabitable.
