{"id":5222,"date":"2018-01-03T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:59:08","slug":"lithia-springs-campground-on-the-alafia-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5222","title":{"rendered":"Lithia Springs Campground on the Alafia River"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"LithiaSpringsCampsite#41\"When we got back to Orlando it was sunny and 75o<\/sup>F, leaving the 5o<\/sup>F cold in Cleveland. We headed to Lithia Springs a Hillsborough County Park which is east of Tampa. We had lots of grocery shopping to do and didn\u2019t get to our camp until 4 PM on New Year\u2019s Eve. We were not sure if the camp would be full or not but were pleasantly surprised that they had many campsites available including one of the best ones #41 right on the Alafia River which was low due to lack of any rain.\"Weather<\/a><\/p>\n

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However the very next day the temperatures dropped to near record lows in the 30\u2019s and high barely reaching 50o<\/sup>F. We plan to stay here 11 days to paddle the river and bike on the concrete bike paths all over\u00a0 Fish Hawk Ranch, a planned housing community.<\/p>\n

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\"Fish<\/a>The trails connect right to our campground and are routed through the beautiful natural areas and the many ponds in the development. However it\u2019s TOO COLD. Today it is raining, so maybe the river will come up, and by the weekend it is finally supposed to warm up.<\/p>\n

Here is what these trails look like. Sand Hill Cranes here, but lots of birds and wildlife are near the trails. Here is what these trails look like. Sand Hill Cranes here, but lots of birds and wildlife are near the trails.<\/p>\n

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When we got back to Orlando it was sunny and 75oF, leaving the 5oF cold in Cleveland. We headed to Lithia Springs a Hillsborough County Park which is east of Tampa. We had lots of grocery shopping to do and didn\u2019t get to our camp until 4 PM on New Year\u2019s Eve. We were not … Continue reading Lithia Springs Campground on the Alafia River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1718trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6855,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/6855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}