Manatee Hammock Campground — Hotel in Titusville

Place should be renamed "US-1 Retirement Campground",Manatee and Hammock's are against the rules.......Ok not the manatee's but hammock's are....If your camping in a tent before you book take a good look at the campground map notice most are green? Those are RV spots...The average age of an RV owner is 48 years old and the maximum stay at this park is 180 days....Let that sink in for a second.... I opted to celebrate my birthday at this park and what I though would be fun and relaxing was most certainly not. I've camped a lot in my life time boy scouts, religious mens fellowship events, and good ol regular camping. When you check-in, your required to leave your vehicle & trailer up front and walk about 200 ft to present ID/TAG info and be presented a page full of rules which you are expected to memorize and abide. If you don't abide or another guest seems to think your not they feel empowered to enforce them probably cause purchased use of the site for up to 180 days. The park staff...not rangers...aren't bothered by it because they probably get to avoid the confrontation. I had an elderly women yell at me as I drove by at 5 mph to slow down. Just to make sure I rolled down the same avenue an additional time and she did it again!(You'll know why when your read further below.) When I returned the gesture, her and 5 of her elderly friends went to complain at the office. Fortunately, I was present and staff member simply reminded me of the 5 mph rule and instances of accidents where guest's did not abide by the 5 mph. I thanked him for the reminder,that I did follow the 5 mph, and could cheerfully provide dash footage eliminate their claim. It was a waste of time for all parties involved simply because a Guest thought she could enforce the rules. I'm sure the they left disappointed after walking back to their RV's thinking they were gonna eject someone in the park based on the power they thought they had. That is one incident of a few were elderly GUESTS though they could enforce there interpretation park rules to their satisfaction. Now if you thought the elderly were bad the evening security roll through the avenues several times an hour on a Side by Side UTV literally auditing camp sites for violations not for safety & security of its guests. He drove by literally glaring into each site. In one stop he stated we had 3 vehicles on one site and we had to move the car off the premises.My family member unknowing that I had rented an additional site for parking asked about where to park and he said no overflow parking and provide a poor excuse to boot as they could create an overflow in the park. I had them park in my additional site.Yes, you read right, I had to purchase an additional site for 2 nights to park two additional vehicles on the other side of the park on the avenue I had driven on earlier that day. The next day, my birthday, my wife hung a happy birthday sign with a few balloons(Think of the accordion signs you get at Wal-Mart for a couple bucks) and hung it between two trees with paracord. This thing weighed ounces and in no way could it damage a tree. We were told it needed to come down or put some were else. If your wondering this was before the cake! Men's bathrooms were fine but my wife had an opposite experience with the female bathroom were she would try to avoid as much as possible. Playalinda is about a 20-30 minute ride which was nice but the view on the river at Manatee Hammock is really just that and don't get your hopes up for the "fishing" at this park. Like many have said there is a train that in the AM hours. If you don't have ear buds your probably not sleeping when the train passes. It's LOUD. 3 Large full size trains will pass staggered about every 2 hours between 12AM-5AM. If your tent camping and you simply want to enjoy the outdoors with your family and friends this place isn't for you. If you still do it cause the state parks are full you'll understand when...

We visited the campground in April 2021. I found this county campground thru Youtube, and as we had a week between going to our next destination, made a reservation for 5 nights. The campground is run by Brevard County, and is 25 acres in size, on U.S. 1 right on the river. There are a few cons that I will mention, and some might be show-stoppers for you. Please read the full review, and the photo's to make your decision. There are 170 sites (151 sites are full hookups) along with tent camping and primative tent camping. As usual, tent campers get the primo sites right down by the water. The fact that there are 170 sites on only 25 acres should let you know right away that this campground is tightly packed together. Some sites are incredibly close to each other (I actually saw a camper that was so close to the next one that the individual could stretch his arms and touch the other one when he was at the edge of his awning). However, there are plenty of sites that are spacious and have privacy. See the photo of the campground map where I circled in blue what I consider to be the best sites. NOTE: there are seasonal camping sites (A-O that are for what I would call snowbirds that I don't think you can reserve. There is a fishing pier that looks across to the Vertical Assembly Building (Cape Kennedy), and one of the big attractions here is you get a very close view of rocket launches (We watched the most recent space-x launch from the shoreline). There are three bath houses and I went into both and saw they were very clean and had privacy showers. There is a beautiful pavillion down by the grassy area (this area takes up about 1/4 of the campground and is spacious and very pretty). There is a dog run with a water hose and frisbee's and tennis balls that previous campers left. There is a small boat ramp for launching kayaks and small boats. There is a swimming pool (currently closed) and recreation hall (currently closed). They have doggie bag stations around the park for your little furry friends. The campground is about 5 miles from Titusville (to the north) and maybe 8-12 miles from downtown Cocoa to the south. We ate at a place called "Dogs R Us" and it was fantastic (They had a wide variety of foods not just hotdogs). We also went down to Cocoa village and had an ice cream at OSSORIO's bakery and cafe. So now, here are the CONS: Some very tight spaced camping sites, and not much room to park your tow vehicle. The roads are one way but narrow, so you may have trouble backing into sites (there are some pull-thru sites). Since the park is so small, there are no "trails" to walk, just the park campgrounds. We rode our bike 5 times around to get 5 miles of biking in each night. There are train tracks just across U.S. 1 that trains run at night. There is also an airport nearby so you will hear planes. On the weekend, this campground becomes 100% full, so you will have tons of people in 25 acres of space. NOW, the PROS: This is a beautiful campground, with lots of shaded spots, a large common area and riverfront view with picnic tables and a fishing pier. You have a dog run for your dog, and there is a boat launch. You are minutes from Titusville and 20 mins tops from downtown Cocoa. Overall I would rate this a 4/5 and if you use the map I have attached, you should have no problem getting a "good...

This campground could not have been worse. We are less than a month into our RV travels and had you asked me on Saturday after leaving Manatee Hammock, I would have said we were done! And that was after 2 glorious weeks in St Augustine. So how did things quickly go so far south you ask? Well, I found out making a reservation for a site and buying and paying for that site doesn't mean anything! They literally gave my site away to the party standing in front of me. It was 30 min after check in opened. I almost interjected a few times to inquire, but I was like no... surely I misheard or maybe they moved me to the same type of spot I reserved but just a different location. NOPE! I reserved a pull through site that was big enough for our truck and trailer because we were only there for one night. I'm also brand new to driving and have been heavily relying on pull through sites to make it until I get some practice under my belt. Manatee Hammock campground took it upon themselves to move me to a tiny back in site! IT WASNT EVEN THE SAME TYPE OF SITE!!!

Staff was useless, they had created a problem and claimed to have no options to fix it (although based ona conversation i overheard before I left, I don't really buy that.. they just didn't care and didn't want to)

They sent me over to look at the spot as it was across from a street and they thought that would somehow help... not sure how!?! The spaces were so tight and the place was packed. As soon as I got the nerve to try and put the truck in reverse, here comes a group of ppl sauntering through the spot.. smh. So now I'm stuck stuck. I can't back into this spot, nor the other street i came from and I end up driving through 2 one way streets just to get out of there. So lucky I didn't cause an accident.

So we realize this isn't happening and start calling around to see if we can get any same day reservations, only by this time it's like 4 o'clock in a Sat. Everyone's full or not answering or really far. So we resign ourselves to just boondocking someplace for the night. I go back in the office, let them know it's not going to work and ask them if they know of any large parking lots close. The guy (who was ranting and raving and yelling at some other guest when I walked in) was short and snippy with me and sent me to what is probably the smallest Cracker Barrel parking lot I have ever seen. Their "truck/trailer" parking was 4 spots that were just double length.. there would be no room to put stairs down or anything.

Manatee needs to change their policies... they almost left 2 women, one of which is my mom who's elderly and disabled, on the side of the road for the night with no power or water. Thankfully on a whim we went to one of the parks that didn't answer and they happened to have 1 spot for self check in open. So blessed! But there are no county parks in our future and never, EVER EVER...