American Legion Post #137 - Jacksonville, FL

Off and on we spent 23 years living in Jacksonville, FL. We lived there from 1966 - 1970 and again from 1983 - 2002. During all of those years we never knew there was a smallish RV parking area at the American Legion post on San Juan Ave. until early spring of 2010.

Post #137 has a large chunk of property right on the Cedar River. They have the main building that houses their offices and the main club. Adjacent to that building is an Olympic sized pool and outside bar area. There is ample parking for normal club operations with more out in back of the club through the gate where the RV parking is located. There are 8 RV parking sites. Six are FHU with 30 amps and the other two are water and electric only. Those two are right on the water next to the boat mooring area. There is also a large paved deep water boat launching ramp. It is very private and secluded. We have made it our normal parking area when in the Jacksonville area, which is often, because we have kids and grandkids there and loads of friends.


The picture below was taken during our first stay at post #137. There was another Everest there in site #3.

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Our favorite site, #6, with unobstructed views of the river from all of the windows on the right side of our trailer.




This was taken during our most recient visit - July/Aug 2011.




The large metal object under the flag pole is an official USA flag burning site. Periodically old and worn out flags collected from the military and other organizations in Duval county are burned there. An official ceremony is held before every burning.




The boat launching ramp.




Boat docking and mooring area. This is looking down river where the Cedar River empties into the Ortega River very close to the St. Johns River.




I got myself a little Walker Bay Dinghy. Then I figured out I had to mount the trolling motor on the bow. Once I got it all rigged and registered I tried it out. Works fine and I enjoy fishing from it.

Dixieland Music & RV Park, Waldo, Florida

During the latter part of 2010 and on into 2011 we spent a lot of time in northeast Florida. My wife’s oldest brother was suffering from late stages of Leukemia and was spending a lot of time in various hospitals.

During one of his stays at the VA hospital in Gainesville we found the Dixieland Music & RV park in Waldo, which is the closest RV park to the hospital just an easy 18 miles away.

This park is under new ownership and will improve in a hurry. After talking with the owner we were assigned to a site under development. It was a pull thru, FHU and already had 50 amp electrical service. The best part was he let us have it for $100.00 a week, everything included and there were four of us. My wife’s sister and her husband followed us to FL and drove our little runaround car down. It would help a little with all the fuel we were going to use riding around.

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The RV Park owner maintains this trailer in the park and often stays there when park improvements are being made.

There are two entrance roads into the park. This is on the left. The office is on the other one.




The park lake/pond is deep and well stocked. Parking can be parallel, back-in or drive-in.

This was our site. In the first picture you can see the trucker parking are behind the service station. In the second picture you can see US-301 in the background.

FastEagle