from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend, and from 8:30 a.m. The visitor center is open from 8:30 a.m. 361/949-9368) hires chairs, umbrellas, body boards, and other beach toys and sells camping and fishing supplies and gifts in the same facility. The park is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.Īn observation deck, a bookstore, and a number of displays, including one on the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, are all part of the visitor center complex on Park Road 22 at Malaquite Beach. 361/949-8175) is also maintained by the Park Service. A recorded beach and road-condition information line (tel. 361/949-8068 is the place to go for information. You will find plenty of Padre Island boondocking locations in this northern section. It takes 45 minutes to an hour to drive there. 358 (South Padre Island Dr.) across the JFK Causeway to Padre Island, then south on Park Road 22 to the national seashore. Getting There - From Corpus Christi, travel southeast on Tex. There are not cell or internet services of any king on these beaches but they are the most pristine in all of the United States. You will be alone at the southern areas with days going by between potential help if you are stuck in the sand. The northern section has places for all of types of visitors from boondocking and paid spots for RVs of any length and type to the southern section with no services and where a 4WD may not be enough at times. North at the Corpus Christi area, in the center it can be accessed traveling east from Raymondville and on the southern end via Port Isabel. They are all around the island with three major entrance points. South Padre Island Boondocking spots are not hard to locate.

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