Myrtle Beach State Park

It is a great park. Beware!! upon entry you must sign a statement that you have no alcoholic beveriges on board your rig.

we find apache is to our likeing, been round 10/12 yrs now. keep comeing back. now its all happy-camping

Hi cubmaster,

I felt compelled to comment based on your " handle". I'm the mother of three eagle scouts, who love to tell me that What I do in my 5th wheel is not camping!! Whatever!!

Anyway, the only place we have camped at Myrtle Beach is the State Park. As you could see from the pics, I say its like camping at the mountains ( with the trees) and the beach at the same time. The beach is just beautiful and you really feel removed from the craziness of the Grand Strand.

The mini golf and restaurants are convenient and honestly it is close to the airport, but as someone else said - never created an issue for us.

I have never heard a bad comment about Myrtle Beach Travel Park for what its worth. Use your judgement.

We just went to OBX for first time this year. I would say a little too sleepy for children the age of yours. Vacation should be fun for them too!

All the best!

We really enjoyed it when we stayed there last year. We prefer state parks and wooded campsites, so MBSP was more to our liking that the other "resorts". I will say that the airstrip did create some noise, but nothing to make us regret our choice. The staff was very friendly, the lots were decent sized (especially compared to the "resorts"), and the beach was just a short walk away in the State Park.

I have also read good things about Huntington Beach State Park a little south of Myrtle Beach.

Hope this helps with your decision.

Doug

We stay at Myrtle Beach Travel Park every spring - Great beach, activities for your children, 3 pools, all pull through sites.

We have stayed at Camp Hatteras when we were at the outer banks - in 2009.

In the fall of 2009 we stayed at the outer banks first and then went down to Myrtle Beach.

There are several well liked camp grounds along the BUS US17 S. Kings Highway strip along the beach of Myrtle Beach.

One just south of the Myrtle Beach State Park is a place called PIRATE LAND CAMPGROUND which is really geared towards the kids..

We usually stay at the next campground south called LAKEWOOD RESORT mainly because my sister is staying there in permanent housing.

About the only thing I didn't like about the Myrtle Beach State park and the next SPRINGMAID Hotel is these are in the final approach for the Myrtle beach Airport which is just across the road from BUS US17. You can actually see the pilots inside the aircraft when it is landing. Most of the the time they make this a landing event for noise abatement but sometimes I guess they are forced to take OFF in the direction of the Ocean which is very loud when that occurs.

Pirate Land and Lakewood are far enough south to get away from the real loud noise with aircraft.

The next campground south of LAKEWOOD is OCEAN LAKES FAMILY CAMPGROUND which is another well known facility with kids in mind...

On down the SOUTH US17 road just a few miles is another State Park called HUNTINGTON BEACH STATE PARK at Murrells Inlet which is one I really want to stay at on one my future visits down that way. It also has BEACHFRONT CAMPING or back in the woods off to yourself somewhat. This is a hugh piece of land.

We have camped alot in both areas of NC OUTER BANKS and Myrtle Beach and it really depends of what you want to do. NC outer bank is more beach type atmosphere where Myrtle Beach has both beaches and a really nice town with all of its amenities.

Hard to say which place is better... I suspect the kids will fall in love with Myrtle beach.

Roy Ken