Driving Class C on the Beach

Dusty R wrote:
There's a camp ground on the beach on Padre Island TX. Have camped there.

The beach on Padre Island south of Malaquite Beach in the Padre Island National Seashore is considered part of the Texas hiway system - at least the first 5 miles are. You can get on it with any street legal vehicle and as long as you don't venture to far into the softer sand by the dunes you're usually OK. There is some heavy truck traffic from some oil well service equipment on this section of the highway. It's fairly typical to see a lot of RVs, tenters and fisherman parked along this stretch of the beach. Beyond the 5 mile marker you'd probably want 4wd and if you're sporty you can go about 50 miles down to an old shipwreck.