Because the area surrounding the safari park is still relatively undeveloped, by far the most convenient tent-camping option is the on-site West Palm Beach/Lion Country Safari KOA. The KOA facility includes a small tent camping area with sites that include water and electric hookups. The campground does not allow pets. Other overnight options include more than 200 RV and trailer sites, many with full hookups, as well as a primitive group camping area and several one-room camping cabins that sleep four each. Campground amenities include free Wi-Fi, a camp store, laundry facilities, outdoor pool that's heated in the winter, basketball and volleyball courts, a large petanque court, shuffleboard, horseshoes and a playground. Discount camping and cabin packages that include safari tickets are often available.
Palm Beach County's John Prince Park, a 726-acre park in Lake Worth, approximately 23 miles southeast of Lion Country Safari, has a 48-acre campground that includes 300 campsites for tents, trailers or RVs, including 50 sites along the Lake Osborne shoreline. Each site has a picnic table and electric/water hookups, and almost 200 offer full hookups for RVs. Other campground amenities include a boat launch, restrooms and showers, four campfire pits, three playgrounds, a petanque court and free Wi-Fi area. Other park attractions and activities include four fishing piers, bocce and basketball courts, nature trail, bike path, exercise course, golf learning center and recreation complex that includes a splash park, tennis and volleyball courts, softball fields and a 4.5-mile walking path.
Peanut Island Park, another Palm Beach County facility, is an 80-acre tropical haven on the Intracoastal Waterway near Lake Worth Inlet in Riviera Beach, 25 miles northeast of Lion Country Safari. The island, reached only by boat, has a small campground with 20 tent-only sites available by permit only. Reservations are required and can be made three months in advance, and the maximum stay is three nights. Each site includes a grill and picnic table, and the campground also includes restrooms and showers, a picnic pavilion and large fire ring. Tent camping also is available in designated natural beach areas. Other amenities include swimming areas, a snorkeling lagoon, boat docks, a fishing pier, picnic areas and a 1.25-mile lighted walking path around the island's perimeter.
Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, 40 miles northeast of Lion Country Safari, is set along the banks of the scenic Loxahatchee River, and includes two campgrounds with a combined 135 sites for tents, trailers or RVs. Each campsite has water and electric hookups, a picnic table and grill. Both campgrounds include restrooms with showers. The park also has equestrian and primitive backpack campsites, as well as fishing, boating, canoeing and kayaking, an environmental education center and hiking, biking and equestrian trails. DuPuis Management Area in Canal Point, 45 miles northwest of the safari park, has 16 tent-only family campsites and three primitive backpack sites on the 21,875-acre preserve set amid ponds, wetlands, prairies and cypress and pine groves. Family sites include picnic tables and fire rings but no potable water and only vault toilets.
