If you are looking for a place to take nice photos, this is one of the best at Padre Island National Seashore.A drive from Padre Island National Seashore to South Padre Island will take approximately 3.5 hours.
It is an easy 3-mile round-trip hike through beautiful scenery. If you can get to the road at Yarborough Pass in a 2WD vehicle, even though you can’t drive to Laguna Madre, you can walk. The total number of days spent camping in the park should not exceed 28 calendar days per year, in any combination of visits or consecutive nights. At the end of 14 days of camping anywhere within the park, campers must vacate their site and leave the park for a minimum of 14 days before returning to camp. A 14-day camping limit is in effect at all camping areas.Do not run generators between 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM.Remove any burned materials and pack them out with you. Bonfires are not permitted anywhere in the park. Campfires are permitted in fully contained barbecue grills.Fines for damaging the mudflats are heavy due to their sensitive nature.
Mudflats are also important habitat for invertebrates that are an important food source for many of the park’s bird species. The upper layers of the mud dry first, giving the appearance of solid ground, but the mud underneath is soft, enabling vehicles to become stuck. Driving in the mudflats surrounding the campground is not permitted.The following are some of the rules for camping at Yarborough Pass (taken directly from the National Park Service website for Padre Island National Seashore). The only shade in sight at the Yarborough Pass camping area, Padre Island National Seashore However, there’s no way I’d camp here from June through September. I camped on South Beach in late October, and it was extremely hot during the day with the sun beating down, but the night wasn’t too bad. With no shade, even mildly hot summer days can be brutal. I’d hate to see what it is like during the summer.Īnother thing to keep in mind when deciding to camp at Padre Island National Seashore is that there isn’t a shade tree in the entire park. I didn’t camp at Yarborough Pass, but I did get a few bites on the walk through the pass, and that was in late October. The island is a combination of grassland and wetland, and the mosquitoes love water and vegetation. The camping permit is good for both South Beach and Laguna Madre.ĭuring the warmer months, if the wind isn’t blowing, mosquitoes are a big problem everywhere on Padre Island. If the place is full, drive back to South Beach and camp there. However, there is no official limit, so if you can find somewhere to pitch a tent other than in the grass, you can camp. There are four wooden structures with slatted roofs that provide partial shade, and these give the impression that there are only four campsites. The camping area at Yarborough Pass is rather small.
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The next day, after I had told every Ranger I saw, it was still closed.Ĭamper registration station and restroom at South Beach, Padre Island National Seashore It was bone dry, and not a single Ranger in the park knew it. Yarborough Pass was closed when I visited, so my buddy and I walked to Laguna Madre just to get some photos. Unfortunately, the Rangers do not regularly check on the conditions after they close the road. Yarborough Pass conditions are posted at the park entrance as well as on the National Park Service’s official Padre Island National Seashore website. There may also be deep, standing water on the road, and if it gets too deep, the National Park Service will close it (there is a gate). Regardless, if you plan on driving through Yarborough Pass to Laguna Madre, you will need a 4WD because the first part of the road is comprised of very soft and deep sand (the rest is actually a gravel road). I drove 20 miles down South Beach before encountering soft sand. In truth, where the soft sand develops changes all the time due to storms, tides, and other natural occurrences, and it is often possible to drive a 2-wheel drive vehicle much farther. Just be aware that beyond the 5-mile point on South Beach that the sand tends to get softer, and the National Park Service recommends that only 4-Wheel Drive (4WD) vehicles go beyond this point. If you are unfamiliar with the beaches at Padre Island National Seashore, most of the sand is as hard as a dirt road, and driving any type of street-legal vehicle is allowed. Yarborough Pass primitive camping area at Padre Island National Seashore
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