Air bed for me, thanks.
The free campground area next to the bathrooms/showers (Equestrian area #3) is good for having as many smaller tents pitched as we need, we just need to use the internet to register each tent and get the gate access code sent back to us individually (it is how you register, you print off the registration form and give it to the host upon arrival). We can stay the entire 10 day week, laying out our arrival and departure when we register on line.
Plus, if we have a rain out reschedule we got $0 tied up in rained out camping spaces. This lowers the $$ entry barrier for some better participation.
Next, this isn't the only public water department "free equestrian campground" sitting behind a locked security gate in Florida, merely the best equipped, cleanest and most modern one I could find.
All previous generations of Equestrian camps had outside cold showers, for example. This is the first one of the new generation, that has the US Forest Service style modern bathrooms and hot showers.
And there are a few freebies that were commercial places but are now free places, for example one which still is an air boat rental place that tried to branch out into camping, had a rough go of it then decided to become "free to stay" to help out the airboat rental business. It is old though, the facilities date back to the 70's and show the age to them.
Anything located near Daytona Beach has become aggressively commercial, not free at all any more as twice a year the place sprouts overflowing Hurleys which will pay outrageous amounts of money for a place to park an RV or pitch a tent.
Generally speaking, free starts again south of Orlando and ends again north of Miami.
Once again, we found us a nice, modern, hot showers and bathrooms built fresh this year equestrian camp behind a locked combo gate (secure and safe) that has a live in attendant to make sure the riff raff stay away. Staying there is free and we should use the heck out of it before the Hurley Burly Crew find out about it ....
(start video at 6:40 to just see the brand new showers and bathrooms, newly built)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_CJXDMflg Click it to watch it.