Ft Desoto Site Recommendation

[petestulipbug]

Hi, looking for site recommendations or any info you can provide on Ft Desoto. We have a trailer and this will be our first time camping there. It looks like they have some availability during the time frame we are looking at, but only handful of sites for trailers (160, 161, 108, and 175). Anyone familiar with these sites?

Thanks so much

Angela

[petestulipbug]

Thank you so much for the replies. I am thinking about waiting and hoping for a cancellation. I really wanted to get a water site and wasn't real impressed with the other options. Thanks again

[modern_family]

We have been many times.. The sites you listed are not the best (thus why they are still open.) You are not too far away, they do open up a few sites that day early morning ( these are for "walk up or drive up people), We have waited till the ealry morning and got nice site, but it is the luck of the draw.

IMO, the best sites are 202 - 230 (these are all on the water and very nice) Yes, some do have limited views, the lower 200's have less mangroves. BUT, since you can only book 6 months in advance, they go quick.

[NoVa_RT]

You may want to go with a pull-thru site for the convenience, but when I was there recently I saw a fair number of trailers & 5th-wheels in the waterfront area in the section I was in, sites 165-236. The views are worth the $5 extra they charge for the waterfront sites, IMHO, but some views are partially limited by mangrove trees. The campground map on the Fort DeSoto website has them marked pretty well, so you might want to take a look at it.

[is_it_friday_ye]

We booked site #142. It will be our first time at this campground. Driving down from Michigan this coming February. The campsite photo looks nice online.

[NCWriter]

We've camped three or four times near 175, which is a center pull through in a quiet section. I'd go with that one because there are water sites on either side. Those center pull through sites are fairly large, as I recall.

(The other sites you listed are not close at all to water, also are in the Pet Area, which will be necessary if you are traveling with a dog.)

According to the camping info they provide when you check in, sites 86 to 236 are designed and equipped to accommodate all camping units. Pets permitted in sites 86 to 164 only. (Sites 1 to 85 are for tents, vans and popups only.)

So many sites are waterfront - you may want to ask on check-in what your chances are of getting a cancellation for a waterfront site.

It's a nice park - enjoy! We go there about every year.