Faver Dykes State Park Campground

We stayed at Faver Dykes for one night because we weren't able to reserve another night at Anastasia State Park.

The park is easy to get to, just off of I-75 however the road within the park is a couple miles of single lane dirt/sand road. It was fairly smooth for us however, I can imagine it may be difficult after a rain. The park is quiet and we didn't meet any other cars on the drive but it could get difficult if two RV's met on the road.

There is a wide creek within the park and canoe rentals are available for a whopping $5/hr or $25/day, looked like a very peaceful paddle.

The park is beautiful, full of pines and palmettos. We also saw some interesting wildlife including an Armadillo which made the pups pretty curious. On the downside for us were the ticks, all over us and the dogs including what appeared to be two deer ticks.

We had initially thought this would be a good place to stay while visiting St. Augustine, especially because Anastasia is so difficult to get into however during our one night stay, the electricity went on and off quite a few times. It was generally a minimal time (5 minutes?) however I wouldn't trust it enough to go off to St. Augustine while leaving our dogs alone for the day as it was pretty hot here even in late March.

The sites were spacious and had good vegetation between sites for privacy. The camp host was helpful and camp was kept clean and was very quiet. Lots of time to spend with each other as there was no usable internet or TV reception!

The road getting to Faver-Dykes is perhaps the biggest negative for this Florida State Park. Our stay at other State Parks have revealed that this particular park and campground is much more rustic and inconvenient than most others. It's located about 25-30 minutes from the historical downtown of St. Augustine, but if Anastasia is booked up it's a decent second option.

The campground itself is well-kept and the sites are very secluded. There is a long hiking trail that leads down to a river, which we walked a couple of times.

Nearby, there are several smaller beach communities, where we drove to have dinner and walk along the beach. Even though St. Augustine isn't especially close, there are plenty of fun beach towns to checkout.

All-in-all, we enjoyed our site and our stay here.

This campground is located down some sand/dirt roads in a beautiful and lush forest area with palms, magnolias and pines. Sites are a decent size and have decent privacy from neighbours. There are also a few trails to hike right by the campground with lookouts over the marsh surrounding the creek.

The highlight is the wide Pellicer Creek, an estuary and an aquatic preserve, where you can paddle a good ways from the boat launch in the day use area in either direction. Canoe rentals are very reasonable at $25 for the day. Good wildlife viewing on the creek, including herons, osprey, river otters.

Very affordable for the location - maybe a 20 minute drive to the ocean with St Augustine a little farther up the road.

We were very surprised to learn that there are no paved roads in the state park. Packed sand mostly, but can be thick and soft in some parts. The campground had been closed since last fall as they were replacing their water pump and restrooms/showers. It just reopened on March 1, the day we checked in, and were surprised to be told that they hadn’t got the results back from their water test, and we were supposed to boil water. While we enjoyed walking the trails, we would not come here again as the campground has a lot of soft sand in various locations due to the construction of the restroom. Also, be sure you bring lots of bottled water to drink, wash your dishes, brush your teeth, etc.

Faver-Dykes State Park, St Augustine, Fl. $18 per night with 30A, water and available campground dump station for one night. Primitive roads but not that primitive. Newly renovated bathroom/ showers. Sign by bathroom said boil all water used for consumption. Found out when the State renovates the campground bathrooms they have to test the water afterwards 3 times for Chloroform Bacteria. The water had already been tested twice and passed but the 3rd test they had been waiting a week for the results from a University that does the testing. I figured it is Spring Break and that is why the late results which the host said usually just take one day. We put our hose away and are using our fresh tank water. Ant hill about 15 feet from the RV, sprayed ant killer around the tires and shore line cord. Only one bar of Verizon. 8 MB/s download without Weboost Cell Booster, 3 bars, 23 MB/S download with Weboost, still only 700KBS upload even with Weboost, might try AT&T if I can't upload photos. We camped in a 26 ft., Class C Motorhome.

Our site was spacious and had great vegetation for privacy. The Rangers were helpful and the campground was clean and very quiet. BUT — and this is a HUGE but — our campsite and the park in general was infested with TICKS! One short hike around the campground loop dirt road covered us and our dog! The counts were 6 for my husband, 1 for me and 12 for our dog.
In the morning we all got covered in “Ben’s” Bug spray/wipes before going outside. Our poor dog managed to attract 6 more ticks just laying in our campsite. We packed up and left early.

Very long drive to a secluded quiet rustic park. Plenty of brush between the sites. Very quiet park. But beware of the ticks. They are everywhere. The ranger knew we were camping with two dogs and two cats and did not warn us about the horrible tick problem. We spent hours picking ticks off the dogs and can only pray the tick preventative works to help kill the rest. Must have gotten over 100 off the dogs (8 lb dogs). I won’t mention how many were on us.

It's been a while since we were here - our first time being back in 2007 right before we went full time together. The sites at this park are nicely spaced and private. And if you have a chance to hit the kayak trail, it's pretty great.

There's not a lot to do here - the hiking trails all have strong 'BEWARE OF TICKS' signs.

But it easy access from the interstate and a great rate.

Cell signal can be faint here and will require some antennas and/or boosters to play around with to get usable speeds.

Nice spot to enjoy quiet time. Good space between sites. Every site has power and water.

Faver Dykes State Park is located just south of St. Augustine, Florida and offers affordable RV camping. Join us on a video tour of Faver Dykes State Park in Florida; video uploaded here on Campendium for your immediate reference. We visit the RV campground, boat ramp, trailhead, and the picnic and day use area. Verizon cellular service clocked in at 78.0 Mbps download speed and 9.77 Mbps upload speed. AT&T cellular service clocked in at 62.9 Mbps download speed and 11.9 Mbps upload speed. T-Mobile cellular service clocked in at 19.7 Mbps download speed and 2.38 Mbps upload speed.