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wbwood
Explorer
Nov 23, 2016

Back to Destin, Florida

Couldn't talk my wife out of it. She insisted on going back to Destin for spring break 2017. I wanted to head further south. But unfortunately, I was able to squeeze 4 nights in at Grayton Beach SP (amongst 2 different sites) and 3 nights at Topsail Hill Preserve SP. Oh well will give some new content to the YouTube channel. lol

Looked at Camp Gulf, but at their rate of anything from $85-192/nite, we are staying 7 nights for less than $280. Can't beat the savings. Gas there and back will cost me $500 let alone....lol
  • garmp's avatar
    garmp
    Explorer II
    Nov 23, 2016
    We are more campers than RVers and Grayton Beach is our absolute favorite SP in that part of Florida. In our opinion you can't go wrong with that choice and while you're in that area check out Eden SP. Not very far from there and only a mile off 98. Just a day use park with a very nice old Victorian mansion and great grounds to walk through for a pleasant day.
  • wbwood's avatar
    wbwood
    Explorer
    Nov 24, 2016
    garmp1 wrote:
    We are more campers than RVers and Grayton Beach is our absolute favorite SP in that part of Florida. In our opinion you can't go wrong with that choice and while you're in that area check out Eden SP. Not very far from there and only a mile off 98. Just a day use park with a very nice old Victorian mansion and great grounds to walk through for a pleasant day.


    Yeah Grayton is my favorite, based on location. I love Seaside. If they could move Topsail to Grayton's location, then it would be better. Our daughter didn't want to do Grayton because it doesn't have the pool or the wifi. Plus the fact that when we mentioned that we could ride bikes into Seaside, she really hated us...lol

    Thankfully Topsail was a lot harder to get into...We will have to check out Eden SP. Anything to give us some good video content.
  • jplante4's avatar
    jplante4
    Explorer II
    Nov 24, 2016
    We did Topsail last spring. Make sure you stop at the Donut Hole for b'fast.

    Did you try to get into Henderson Beach SP?
  • Limit4's avatar
    Limit4
    Explorer
    Nov 24, 2016
    x2 onEden State Park for a nice 2 or 3 hours. 4 or 5 dollars per vehicle.
  • wbwood's avatar
    wbwood
    Explorer
    Nov 25, 2016
    jplante4 wrote:
    We did Topsail last spring. Make sure you stop at the Donut Hole for b'fast.

    Did you try to get into Henderson Beach SP?


    Yeah Henderson didn't have anything and to be honest, I don't want to be down in the middle of it all. We don't make it out for breakfast. Tend to sleep in too late and by the time we all get up, showered and ready to go, it would be nearly lunch time...lol

    I get up at 4:30 in the morning every day for work. When I have a day off, I don't get to sleep in much past 7am. Sometimes it's nice not to have to get up until my body wants me to...
  • wbwood's avatar
    wbwood
    Explorer
    Nov 25, 2016
    Limit4 wrote:
    x2 onEden State Park for a nice 2 or 3 hours. 4 or 5 dollars per vehicle.


    Awesome...thanks...
  • atomlinson's avatar
    atomlinson
    Explorer
    Nov 26, 2016
    We had a beachfront site at Camp Gulf back in June, and absolutely loved it. Lots of activities for the kids, and being that close to the water was better than any condo or hotel. Yeah, it was a small fortune to stay there. We're already booked for the same site for June 2017. We'll probably do it one more year, then go back to staying in our future permanent residence (hopefully) of Seagrove Beach. Camp Gulf and the Destin area is great and all, but it's no 30A!
  • jplante4's avatar
    jplante4
    Explorer II
    Nov 26, 2016
    We did 16 states an 6000 miles last winter, from New England down the east coast to central Florida, then out the panhandle and around the gulf coast to Galveston. Our 2 favorite places were HoHum in Carabelle FL and 30A. We had never considered moving out of Cape Cod, but if we did, we'd go to the Santa Rosa Beach area.

    Of course, we didn't see it during spring break.

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