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Camp Good News Florida
Camp Good News is a Christian camp in Hawthorne, Florida, run by Child Evangelism Fellowship. Alongside its own children's day and break camps, it rents Cypress Hall and its Pine and Palm dorms and Holly Haven RV to outside groups for events like youth nights, meetings, and family reunions.
Facts verified from the camp’s own website · Last verified 2026-09-11
34
Sleeps
Getting there
- 30 min from Gainesville
- 1 h 40 min from Jacksonville
- 2 h 15 min from Orlando
120 Twin Lakes Road, Hawthorne, FL 32640 · drive times are typical, not rush hour
On the property
LakeClimbing wallPlaygroundGame roomArcheryWater sportsFishingMountain biking
The facts
| Lodging | Dorm rooms (16 beds) · Dorm rooms (16 beds) · RV sites (2 beds) |
| Meals | Self-catering kitchens |
| Hosts | Youth groups · Families |
| Affiliation | non-denominational Christian (a ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship) |
| Established | 1969 |
| Phone | (352) 481-3550 |
Founded in 1969 on land near Twin Lakes Road that was overgrown and dotted with old mobile homes; the camp later restored its lakefront to reveal a sandy beach on the spring-fed Twin Lake South, locally called Little Lake Annie.