RV Parks near Corpus Christi, TX

moonlightrunner wrote:

docj wrote:
With all due respect to your friends, Flour Bluff is a relatively dreary looking lower end community with no particular attractions. Personally, I wouldn't spend a week there let alone a winter.

Then you may want to see the west side of SPID down towards the high school and library. From what they said the side close to the base is scary at best (cops said to avoid that side as only directly ON the base was safe) yet there was an fancy age restricted 55+ rv park feet from the entrance to the base that would accept the 56yo hubby but the 50yo wife and 24yo daughter "would have to stay someplace else" (they thought that was hilarious). They loved that they could just drive across the last bridge to the island. Their opinion of the Rockport-Fulton, Aransas, etc rv parks was not very high yet others here and on other forums think those places are the bee's knees. They were also working, not retired. Perhaps that has something to do with it? I have noticed the retired RVers look for different things in a park than working RVers do. For them being close to the beach, library, stores and work was important. Potlucks, shufflebored courts, club houses and organized activities are at the bottom of their list.

Organized activities are at the bottom of our list, also, but for us it is location, location, location. From the park it is a short walk on the boardwalk over the dunes to the Gulf of Mexico and our site faces one of the larger birding ponds on Mustang Island. All winter long we can sip coffee in the morning while watching Egrets, Herons and Spoonbills. We're heavily involved in activities in Corpus Christi but we're willing to put up with the drive in order to have the view. The nearest big grocery is ~25 minutes away, but there is enough available on the island to tide us over in a pinch. To each his own.