Bonita Springs, Florida
RV and boat storage for Bonita Springs owners, twenty minutes up I-75.
Bonita Springs is the community where the HOA problem is at its sharpest. Between Bonita Bay, Pelican Landing, Palmira, Spanish Wells, Worthington and the rest, the declarations say more or less the same thing: no recreational vehicle, boat or trailer on a lot except briefly for loading.
So the coach lives on gravel off Old 41, or in Estero, or in a bay somewhere in San Carlos Park, until it lives in a unit you actually own.
Getting here from Bonita Springs
13461 Shire Lane
About 20–25 minutes from Bonita Beach Road · Roughly 20 miles
About 20–25 minutes from Bonita Beach Road · Roughly 20 milesI-75 north from Exit 116 (Bonita Beach Road) to Exit 131 (Daniels Parkway), then west to Shire Lane.
- Inland from the open Gulf
- 9 miles
- FEMA flood zone
- Zone X
- Wind design
- 170 mph
Flood
The flood zone in Bonita Springs, and the flood zone here.
Zones are assigned parcel by parcel. Check your own address before relying on any general description.
Current exposure
Bonita Springs
- FEMA flood zone
- Western Bonita Springs along Little Hickory Bay, Bonita Beach and the Imperial River corridor sits largely in FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas; areas east of I-75 are more commonly Zone X.
- Surge pathway
- The Imperial River is the specific local exposure, it flooded well inland in both Irma and Ian.
The Excalibur position
Excalibur, Fort Myers
- FEMA flood zone
- FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area
- Surge pathway
- Roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf
Verify your own address
Flood zones are assigned parcel by parcel. The figures above describe each community in general terms and must be checked against Lee County GIS and the FEMA Flood Map Service Center for any specific address.
What Hurricane Ian did in Bonita Springs.
Bonita Springs was on the strong southern side of Ian's eyewall as it came ashore in Lee County on 28 September 2022. Surge pushed up the Imperial River and Estero Bay, flooding Bonita Beach, Little Hickory and the older neighborhoods along the river that had already flooded during Irma five years earlier.
For many residents this was the second major flood in five years, and that repetition is what changed people's minds about where they keep vehicles. Lee County as a whole filed 272,299 insurance claims after Ian; CARFAX estimated 358,000 vehicles were damaged across Florida and the Carolinas.
We are not going to make a sales pitch out of that week. What we will do is publish where this building sits relative to the water and let you compare it with where your coach sits now.
A stronger answer for Bonita Springs coaches and boats.
Predominantly Class-A coach owners and boat owners in gated communities that prohibit both.
Frequently seasonal, north from May, back in November, which makes the long-term storage preparation question as important as the storage itself.
The second group is the Bonita owner who has kept a coach in an industrial park off Old 41 for years and wants the space in their own name, on a deed, for an association fee of $1,000 / quarter.
Door opening is 16 ft wide by 14 ft high with 25 ft of clear ceiling inside.
The drive-through plan means you never have to back in a coach with a tow car attached.
Cars, for the owner who already has the RV
Most Bonita inquiries open with the coach or the boat and close with a quieter question: and where do the cars go?
Usually the same building, and often the same bay. Wizard is 2,708 square feet of double-width space, enough to separate a boat, a tow vehicle and two or three cars without any of them blocking the others in, and to keep a workshop area that is not simply the gap between bumpers. The bay is individually metered at 220V/150A, 1 or 3 phase, so a lift and a charger are both on the table rather than a choice between them.
Bonita Springs has no delivered motor condominium of its own. Excalibur is twenty minutes up I-75, and every unit in it is deeded.
The second floor, twenty minutes from home
Twenty minutes is the shortest run of any community we serve apart from the airport itself, and it changes what the mezzanine is for.
At an hour, a second floor is a nice detail you use twice a year. At twenty minutes it is a room you actually go to on a Tuesday evening, somewhere for the tools, the memorabilia and the workbench that came out of the garage when the coach arrived. Every unit has one, 320 square feet on the smallest plan, finished, with wet-bar plumbing roughed in and a luxury full bathroom with shower in every unit. The gate is open 24/7 with camera monitoring and there are no office hours to work around.
The limits are the same everywhere in this category and we would rather state them than let you discover them. It is not a residence.
The plans Bonita Springs owners choose for serious storage.
Lance
2,028 sq ft · 676 sq ft second floor
2,028 sq ft in the 54-ft configuration, drawn for a Class-A coach, where depth is the constraint rather than width.
Lance plans
Emperor
3,724 sq ft · 960 sq ft second floor
3,724 sq ft drive-through with a door at each end. Coach in one side, out the other, plus the tow vehicle.
Emperor plansWhat discerning Bonita Springs buyers ask before they own.
The site-wide facts, stated once: 170 mph ultimate design wind speed, FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf, and an association fee of $1,000 per quarter on a 1,350 sq ft unit, increasing pro rata with size. RV dump station on site, included in the association fee. How the building is engineered and what it costs to own are explained in full on their own pages.