Hunting Island State Park Campground

I'm from Minnesota and I travel the country. This state park has both good private campsites and it has shitty private sites. We stayed 3 nights. 1st site sucked with zero privacy. Not even a bush that separated us from our close neighbor. The next 2 days we had a better site, however there's about 50 percent great sites that are private and spaced out with vegetation between. I went in blind because it was our 1st stay here. In general it's more rustic for a state park. The bathrooms where clean. The beach is close regardless of what site you get compared to about 15 state parks I've stayed at in Florida. Beach is great and not packed. 1 of the main highlights was the biking/scootering opportunities from the campground. Lots of opportunities to explore on bikes or scooters from campsite. Awesome exploring to see. Had a ton of fun exploring outside campground right from are campsite. Our favorite was taking our ebikes/scooters along the beach about 5 miles round trip to the dead/ghost woods on beach. We took paths there and beach back with no problems. A great round trip.

Hunting Island State Park Campground is an excellent park to camp right on the ocean. It’s about 14 miles from downtown Beaufort where you can find dining and shopping. There’s a Publix Food Lion, Harris Teeter and Walmart about 12 miles away. Cell phone coverage is one to two bars, depending upon your carrier. I used visible, which operates on Verizon‘s network and had reasonable reception for streaming. I also used a Starlink standard kit for Internet access. The sites have trees and with about 42% obstruction. I was able to get 189 MB download speed. But check your site images when reserving if you plan to use a Starlink. There are plenty of bathrooms and showers that are in good condition and cleaned daily . There’s also a modest camp store. Sites have water and electric, but no sewer. But the real reason you stay here is for the proximity next to the ocean . The low tide goes way out at the north end of the park and you can do some great exploring & shelling., it’s like another world. The beaches are sandy white but are shared with horses. To the south of the campground, the park continues towards the lighthouse and keeps going and going and going. You could hike for miles on the beach without many other people around you.

Lived every second of this. Favorite party was all the wild life after dark. Raccoons, owls, deer.... so cool

A beautiful campground. Friendly staff working in the camp store. Recommend a couple day stay to see everything.

Great camping spot, very nice beach. Bathrooms could use some cleaning. Also be prepared for the bugs to bite no matter how much spray you apply. Other than that a good beach overall. Would recommend to come out and to camp with the family during a free weekend. 9/10