Camping Checklist

 

Know Before You Arrive

- After-hours arrival check-in immediately next day. Arrivals after 5 p.m. enter code received with reservation confirmation to enter park gate.

- Camper, trailer, and vehicle registration is required to check-in. 

- The maximum time permitted for camping in the campground is fourteen consecutive days. 

- Campgrounds are closed to non-camper use and non-camper vehicle traffic from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.

- No more than two vehicles can be parked at a campsite at once this includes trailers, passenger vehicles, and RVs. Additional vehicles must be parked in overflow parking areas.

- Fires may be built-in permanent grills (charcoal only) or fire rings at designated sites.
 
- Portable grills may be used at designated campsites by registered campers at the Ft. Pickens and Davis Bayou campgrounds. 

- Smoking of all sources including but not limited to e-cigarettes, hookahs, or vape pens is prohibited in all government buildings, including but not limited to the bathhouses, restrooms, forts, and batteries.

- All food and coolers should be stored inside vehicles away from wildlife.

- Greywater, shower tents, and rinsing of vehicles are prohibited in the park.

- Campers are not allowed to hang food bags, trash, string lights, clotheslines, hammocks, or other equipment from the trees, vegetation, or park electrical equipment.

- Portable air conditioning units used for tents or outside are not allowed.