The Good Life RV Resort

The Good Life RV Resort occupies a large stretch of State Road 60 just outside Bartow, roughly midway between Bartow and Lake Wales in Polk County. It is a 55+ RV community built for guests who want to settle in for a season rather than pass through overnight, with 397 individual RV sites, each with a concrete patio and driveway, full hookups including 30 and 50 amp electric service, water, and sewer, and paved streets lined with streetlights running through the property.

The scale of the amenities here rivals much larger commercial resorts, which is notable for a property still run as an independent, family-scale operation rather than a corporate RV brand. A solar-heated Olympic-size pool, 30 by 80 feet, anchors the outdoor recreation area, alongside shuffleboard and bocce ball courts, horseshoe pits, and a fenced dog walk area for guests traveling with pets. A practice par-3 golf course gives golfers a place to keep their swing sharp without leaving the property, and fishing access to nearby Lake Garfield rounds out the outdoor offerings.

Indoors, the resort’s clubhouse functions as the social hub of the community, with a recreational hall used for bingo nights, card games, and community dining, a billiards room with a ping pong table, a library with Wi-Fi access, a card room, and a craft room. A workout room with cardio equipment and a commercial kitchen support both day-to-day resident use and larger community gatherings. Twelve washers and dryers keep laundry facilities from becoming a bottleneck in a resort of this size, and a Veterans Memorial on the grounds reflects the demographic the resort primarily serves, retirees and snowbirds who return to the same community year after year.

Contact information for the resort, a personal hotmail address alongside its local phone number, and a simple Google Sites web page rather than a built-out commercial website, are clear signs of just how independently and modestly this operation is run despite its size. There is no franchise name attached to the property, no corporate booking engine, and no shared branding with other resorts across the state. It is a locally operated 55+ community that happens to offer resort-level amenities.

For travelers or seasonal residents looking for an independent, non-branded RV resort within easy reach of both Bartow and Lake Wales, The Good Life RV Resort offers one of the more amenity-rich options in this part of Polk County, run at a genuinely local scale.