We used the wild campground.No water, no electricity, but freedom!You put your tent where you want. Park your car on the beach and enjoy.We made a fire and swam in November$25 to enter the park and spend the night. Amazing

This is a beautiful place. Beautiful view, showers, vending machine. It is a recognized place to watch birds. Showers and bathrooms are opened! Will come back for sure!

Wonderful campground. Its $14 a night but $7 with a national park pass. When you enter there is a board where you tear off a bit of the envelope (envelope with money goes in the box) and you put the slip on the board.Its well staffed here and they do rounds every night.Keep trash inside, I had a critter tear into my trash overnight.Beautiful beach, I saw someone having a fire and camping out on it. I will do that next time.Bathrooms and showers are great.Will come again.

This campsite is super close to the beach and incredibly beautiful. The amenities were pretty decent as well. Showers and bathrooms were well kept. The campground host was really helpful with instructions as well. 4 stars instead of 5 because there were fire ants all over our picnic table area that would not stop biting us and the grass is full of burrs which actually poked through the bottom of our tent floor and got into our dogs paws.

Pretty good picnic area, we ate our chilis takeout there but also pretty small tables all in all, id say 7/10

Overall very nice facility. they have spots for tent camping and for RVs. they have bathroom and showers. Be aware that there are a lot of mosquitoes and you need to have some type of netting to cover your car windows if youre sleeping in your car, so you dont have to leave the AC running. need to wear some type protective clothing or mosquito Nets. Mosquito spray.

Probably one of the best campgrounds Ive been to in terms of facilities. Other than the fact that it was raining because of a hurricane coming into the gulf, this place is beautiful. There are showers that have doors that can lock, a handicap accessible restroom for the elderly as well. Push system showers and restrooms with stalls that lock, have soap, and paper towels. Bugs may be a problem. The boardwalk was closed off, and you cant drive along the beach right now. Or camp because the storm outside in the gulf. Normally beach access to camp is $25. And campground access is $14. Depending on the time of day the rangers might give you a discount when you drive up. That I know of they accept cash. Its pet friendly. A VERY beautiful Beach. There are parking spots that are covered, picnic tables, and lighting when you walk around the showers at night.

I think this is thr one st S Padre. No electricity but has restrooms. Looked really nice. Im excited to try it out. Small campsite area.

Beautiful place! Will be coming back.

Beachfront, covered picnic tables, bathroom access, and showers. We arrived late in the evening. There were plenty of available sites and we were able to pay on arrival at the camp board.

Absolutely beautiful place, only wish you could reserve a spot before had and not be stressed about not finding a spot. Bathe and showers available on this campsite and park staff really friendly.

Not bad. Was looking for a spot to hide from hurricane Delta

Good place to get away and pitch a tent on the beach for star gazing with the sound of waves In the background.

Stayed here once with my family. It was a primitive campsite with access to bathrooms without hot water. If you deal with that then its one of the best beaches in Texas. Drive further down the beach for your own secluded piece of paradise.

We enjoyed our stay here. First time boon-docking and greatly enjoyed this clean site. Wish there was a seafood restaurant close by. Each area is paved with room for Campers via tent and RV.Plan accordingly! No hookups, but youre welcome to run your generator. (Not allowed to run generator 10pm to 6am). There is a water site to load up on water before you get to the campground. Walking distance from beach, nice deck with beautiful views. Each area comes with a picnic table. Restrooms and showers in walking distance.Visitors center in walking distance 1mile down from the camping site. Rangers are very nice and informative. Perfect time to visit, not crowded. Get fuel in Corpus. After Corpus, fuel prices go up and no fuel on Padre Island.

If you enjoy walking on an endless beach, playing in the surf and hearing the roar of the ocean at night - this place is great. This is a place for families and those who would like some peace and quiet. This is one of the cleanest beaches I have been to on the Gulf Coast.Camping is accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis.Bathrooms and showers on site - free, clean and very useable. Staff really nice.Easy access to town about 30 minutes.Well definitely be back.

Before heading down the beach.Last place to get a shower. Inexpensive. It has cold showers bathrooms fresh water. And Rv dump stations

Dry camping but hard to beat for $14 a night, with drinking water and a dump station within a couple hundred yards of the campsites. Pretty remote no cell service.

This was an amazing place to spend my vacation camping. The restrooms and showers are always cleaned everyday. And the beach is super clean. The Campground is amazingly clean and free of debris. I loved it!

Who doesnt love parking right on the beach?? You feel so fresh and alive with the water right next to you. Also, the ocean wave sounds help you sleep well at night. Its live white noise!

Excellent place to boondock!

We stayed here for two weeks in the end of March, beginning of April 2019 in spot #18. It is $14 per night unless you have a senior or Access (disability) National Park pass, then it is $7 per night. There is an entry fee to the park as well, but we have the annual park pass. Absolutely worth either price. You are right by the beach! No hookups, but they have fresh water and a dump before entering the campground. It is nice because there are two dumps and two fresh water stations. We planned to stay a night or two and then camp on the beach for free, but after seeing the crowds at the beach and the tide, we decided to stay here the whole time instead. I’m glad we did. The weather didn’t cooperate most days, but we had several days of gorgeous sun. It was constantly breezy which kept the bugs away but made it a bit too chilly for hanging out on the beach all day. The campground filled up most days but was quiet and relaxing. Everyone adhered to the quiet hours and was considerate. We have a solar setup and any site would be perfect for it. No trees to block the sun. Despite the cloudy days, we had no trouble with no generator backup. There is no cell reception at all with AT&T. None. However, we have a WeBoost cell booster and we were able to get enough for me to work remotely. There were a few times it crapped out, but for the most part it worked well, especially considering there was none without it. We arrived around 1pm and didn’t have any trouble finding a spot on the beach side. IMO, the beach side on the right (as you come in) is better. The spots are angled and when you open your door, you can see the beach and ocean easily. Here is the process for getting a spot. If you have arrived after check-out at noon, find an empty spot and claim it. There are occupied signs at campground host site (to the left of the registration area) or put out chairs or something to show it is occupied. You have one hour after claiming the site to pay. Since you have a spot claimed, you can go fill your tanks if necessary or just park your rig. Within an hour, go back and pay at the self-registration area. You will see the self-registration area immediately to the left when you arrive at the campground. It is cash or check, and they have an area you can write your credit card information if you want to do that. If you arrive before noon, you can pick an empty spot with no occupied sign or evidence it is occupied and follow the same process. You can also review the board to see if anyone in a spot is set to leave that day. The board is to the right of the self-registration area. It has slots for each camping site. The papers in the slots are filled out by campers as part of the registration process and it shows when they are leaving. I believe the camp host removes the papers in the morning for people who are leaving that day. If there is no paper in the slot, the site (in theory) is available once the person currently occupying it leaves. If you see a spot like that, I would recommend talking to the current occupants and confirming they are leaving that day. If they are leaving, I would recommend registering and paying for the site immediately. That will prevent other people from claiming it since your paper will show evidence the spot is taken. Then you can setup as soon as the other person leaves. The stay limit is 14 days. There are several access points to the beach, and you can be there in about 100 feet depending on site location. There are picnic tables at the campground and at the beach. There are showers, restrooms, and spigots for sand removal. Dogs are allowed at the campground and on the beach. As always, they must be leased and picked up after. Corpus Christi is about 45 minutes away so I would recommend bringing anything you may need with you, but in a pinch, you can go there for shopping. There are gas stations and a few stores on the island, but nothing close to the campground. Overall, we loved our stay and will definitely be back.

Lovely boondocking! No cell signal or hot showers, but a beautiful beach and the sound of the surf.

Fourhweel drive is recommended for the beach driving, I had an all wheel drive car on it and was able to get to mile marker ten to little shell beach, this is where they do the hatching for the sea turtles and if you call the visitors center they will let you volunteer to help the turtles get to the water safely, super pretty and once we got to mile marker ten we started seeing the turtles swimming in the water close to shore, it was an awesome experience!!!

One of the best beaches in Texas. Camping on the beach, good restrooms and showers.

The campground works off of an honor system in which you pay $14 and write your name, license plate # and etc. We paid for two nights and the day of the second night we had someone decide to sandwich their vehicle between our car and the cement table on our lot with our items on said table. Best of all their clothes and trash were on our table. I suppose paying the $14 allows for free reign for any and all non paying visitors to occupy your lot. No park rangers were available at the visitors center and the main building had one ranger whose advice was that we either find another lot (an unlikely situation given the lack of availability) or figure it out for ourselves. $20 to enter during park hours and $14 for the lot. If you park you better park diagonally but opposite of the lot otherwise Boone will be there to rectify your situation.Lots of ghost crabs on this beach which is pretty cool but they are more scared of you than you are of them. Plenty of schools of fish swimming and leaping out of the water which was cool. Not overly packed, clean and overall relaxing unlike other areas. You can also see the milky way galaxy at night so if you enjoy stargazing youll have a blast. Beach fires allowed but make sure you read the rules. Also please dont be like the morons next to us and burn ANY kind of wood. To the geniuses who felt like burning wood that they randomly found at another campsite.....LEARN YOUR TYPES OF WOOD. The wood you were using was not for burning in a fire pit, it was for smoking. Also SOME woods are chemically treated so that also poses a health risk. We were unable to close our eyes nor breathe without choking or having our eyes burn. You successfully smoked me, my lady, her sister and two kids out of our campsite. We were forced to sleep in our vehicles as there were no other areas for us to reposition our tent so we broke down our equipment and packed up at 1230am.My suggestion for the nation park staff is to perform more checks around the campsites, especially at later hours. If it means raising the price a little then so be it. Id return again but its looking like any problems we experience may have to be handled accordingly and obviously on our own. Hardly any cell signal out there so 911 is out of the question.BRING MOSQUITO SPRAY!!!!! We were eaten up badly and werent safe anywhere.

Beautiful park right on the ocean..well maintained and the park hosts were awesome, friendly and courteous..special thanks to park management for letting campers stay in the park during govt shutdown in Jan. Well done

We had a great time camping on the beach. Showers/bathrooms are beach style, cement and no mirrors. Pack your shower shoes!Beach sites have a pergola and table. There is camping next to parking lot and then some crossing the dunes, right on the beach! We chose that. Parking was not assigned but we arrived early and had no trouble.The other campers were not as friendly as I’m accustomed to at campsites but not disruptive.

Beautiful beach camping sites and rv spots. visit the info center to learn lots of cool stuff about the wildlife and island. dont expect cell reception. bathroom and shower facilities were in good shape.

Great spot for boondocking.But be prepared for mosquitoes and possible windy environment.

Great place to park and camp but gets real busy. Plan ahead, I believe checkout is at 12 daily so thats your best bet. The site itself is incredible, restrooms and showers are always open but one of the restroom doors has no locking mechanism so get someone to guard. To get to the beach use the ramp next to the restrooms. You can fish here and even camp on the sand

Cool beach, at night the moon light will often reflect off the crabs on the beach floor. There are a bunch or mosquitoes at night though.

Right next to the beach and fairly inexpensive (no hookups but there are restrooms and showers). If you turn right and get a spot on the ocean side your door faces the water (for travel trailer or 5ers). Short walk over the dunes to the water. Most excellent! Birding is great if thats your thing.

Clean and beautiful. Quiet.

It is a wonderful campground close to the beach.

First time ever camping out on the beach, it was a fun experience (minus the mosquitoes) until we got smoked out of our tent when the people next to us decided to build a huge bonfire with beach wood!! Went to see the turtles be released and that was a good experience for us. The bathrooms and showers were clean as well.

Nice but basic campground. No water or electric at the sites. It does have a dump station and portable water. The price is great, $7.00 if you have the senior pass.

Had a great time with the family

Very nice camping ground with showers. Very windy but we enjoyed.

Was awesome except the power went out on whole island

Very nice, basic camping. But Beware!!!!! Its first come first serve and on top of this you must be quick.Steps.1. Look on Board for openings2. Ask if the person is going to leave3. Place you paper with info in slot4. Wait for the spot to become open watch it or you can lose it.5. Make sure no one places their stuff on it or its gone.Good Luck and Enjoy.To The Park: You need to redo your camping registration process, its unfair and wild people already gamble on having a spot just to have someone take it even though you put a request on the board. This did not happen to me but to a woman there. No good. Your Rangers allowed her to lose her spot because someone stole it, she paid and was next. I hope you fix this problem.

Awesome place to stay for the weekend!!!!!

Very beautiful place, not expensive, well maintained, big rig friendly, no pull throughs or hook ups but has available fresh water and dump stations. No hot showers, yet- one sink in each bath room has hot water. Still trying to understand that reasoning but overall a remarkable place. The drive out to the park is breath taking on a clear day. If you dont like leaving your hand written credit card info in a locked box to be gathered and used responsibly at a later date; then bring cash to pay at the camp ground kiosk....which is separate from the park entrance fee and lastly, no cell service here except at the end of the beach access board walk just before you go onto the beach.Enjoy!

Its a nice place, just annoying that there is no electricity and at 1000 the camp host makes sure all generators are off, I feel if no electricity is provided you should be able to use generators at night, this is the only reason I didnt give it 5 stars.

The water is clear and the beach is clean. The campgrounds have a grill and semi-covered shelter. The only downfall is finding an open campsite since everything else is so amazing and most other campgrounds are still shut down from Hurricane Harvey.We plan on returning next year as well. We are in love.

Perfect place to camp for a couple nights! We parked right by the water which was amazing!! Hearing the water from our rv was priceless. Its first come, first serve parking. And you have to slip your payment in an envelope. My dog loved the beach walks and all the wildlife. Such a cool experience! Well worth the drive!

Great Place for family!

Clean beach and bathrooms. Lots of room to get away from people. Daily patrols to make sure everyone is following the rules and staying safe. Free for disabled veterans. Will be staying here again.

Nice back in site on the water side. Wouldnt care for parking on the opposite side. It is just a parking lot. Hence the four stars. They do have stickers on the dunes. We paid $4 a night with the old fogey pass.

Beautiful beach! My only complaint would be that you have to carry all of your things quite a ways before setting up camp on the beach.

This is a beautiful scenery with amazing beach. I have seen release of hatched Sea Turtles. There was great care for the turtles to preserve endangered species. This is a nice place for camping on the beach and sunrise was amazing. The water is clean and the sand is beautiful

Quite, clean, short walk to the beach and only $7.00 a night with pass.

The host that were staying there were very helpful. We stayed on a tent spot, and camped out on the beach. The rangers let us have a bonfire and they were super friendly. The beach wasnt to far away either and everyone else kept to themselves mostly.

Pretty nice place, walking distance from the beach. Campground is spacy and comes with a table and grill. The only bad thing, it is HEAVILY policed. Dont go even 1 mille over the speed limit or you will get pulled over. The officers were nice though, still, I just wanted to go fishing.

Very well kept nice clean facilities

I had a good time.

Great place for family any time of year..... Less popular than other parts of Padre witch means less crazies!

Bring your national parks pass for free entry to a more secluded beach along the coast. Preserved natural habitats are so much more refreshing than the oil refinery dilapidated landscapes that line most of the gulf.

I love this beach. It has clean restrooms and showers. Clean beach and lots of fun

Nice, cheap ($8) beach camping with easy access. Has showers and restrooms nearby. We happen to come the night of a meteor shower and the view was spectacular. Very little light pollution so you could see the Milky Way and tons of stars. If you come during the summer the gulf breeze will keep you cool and comfortable. The visitors center nearby does turtle hatchings during July and it is definitely worth stopping by to experience that.

Love this place and always wonder how I could live here forever.

It was freakin amazing. We picked the perfect spot next to the ocean

Oh, how we love this island campground.

Would definitely stay again. Clean bathrooms. Gorgeous sunrise.

Has clean freezing cold showers and restrooms. lots of jelly fish in the water and on the beach. very clean and beautiful very very cold at night we had a blast. restrooms and showers closed from 10-12 twice a day

Nice camp grounds for tents and RVs alike! Very clean secluded beach!

Great camp grounds!

It rained the whole time there but other than that it was an experience

We LOVE this place! Want to keep it our little secret!

Park at the beach for $8/night. No hookups, but clean bathrooms and showers and friendly campground hosts. No pull-throughs and grass is very prickly.

Very nice cant wait to go back!

Clean beach.

Not bad, hard surface, cold showers

The best hidden treasure

Rraly nice place

What a GEM!

Great Campground

Great place