Here's the YouTube link to a two-minute video of our recent visit to Gulf Shores, Alabama's enormous Gulf State Park. It's hard to get a reservation there, so we managed to only get a 3-day stay. Then we booked another week for after our visit to Meaher SP and Dauphin Island. It would require our moving between four different campsites in seven days. We didn't like the park well enough to return for that circus, so we cancelled that week. Make your own opinion when you watch, or visit the park sometime. But book WAY ahead of your hopeful visit. Five months wasn't enough! And be prepared to pay a 15% resort fee, and total of 13% in various taxes on top of the daily camping fee of about $40, depending on what day of the week and what kind of campsite. They have a lot of "premium" sites (on alligator infested lakes and canals!) that you get charged extra for.
Gulf State Park visit
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| It's a LONG walk from the campground to the beach - took us 15 minutes once we figured out how to get there! Boardwalks are everywhere, with alligators lurking below them we learned on our first bike ride. |
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| This bridge to the Gulf beach crosses the four-lane road. |
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| Mirror-like water after the day of rain |
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The campground does have a good amount of distance between sites. They lost half of their trees in a hurricane so it's still coming back and being cleaned up.
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