National Park Service · Gulf Islands National Seashore · MS
Davis Bayou Group Campground
5Heads uppark alerts, one naming this campground
Caution
Rip Current Status Review rip current status prior to visiting the park.
Park Closure
Hurricane Isaias Closures Florida All of the areas are closed until further notice. Fort Pickens Area and Fort Pickens Campground Okaloosa Area Santa Rosa Area (Opal Beach) Naval Live Oaks Area
Information
Accessing Fort Barrancas Fort Barrancas is open 9 am–4 pm Wednesday through Sunday. To access Fort Barrancas, visitors will need to enter the Naval Air station Pensacola through the west gate.
Caution
Road workers on Park Road in Davis Bayou Phase II of the Davis Bayou Bicycle and Pedestrian Path is in process. Visitors may encounter minor traffic delays and flaggers on Eagle Point and Park Road.
Park Closure
Battery 234 Loop Road Closure The Battery 234 Loop Road and Battery Cooper within the GUIS, Fort Pickens Management Area will be closed to all for vehicle, bicyclists, and foot (pedestrian) traffic until further notice for safety purposes until the park can correct the…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Road workers on Park Road in Davis BayouCaution naming this campground · nobody has said
Photos · NPS/Dutton
10 ftElevation
113 ftWater · Halstead BayouOcean · 1,411 ft · to the Gulf of Mexico
In townOcean Springs, MS
93%Tree cover
Bortle 5Night sky · 60th darkest of 61 in MS
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
The area is available with a permit for a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 40 occupants. Persons camping in the group area are limited to the restroom facilities located at pavilion #5. Parking is limited.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 5.4 km away
- Patchy color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (5.4 km) · Oct 14, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Coordinate30.39674, -88.79362
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Davis Bayou CampgroundGulf Islands National Seashore · 0.1 mi
Big Biloxi Recreation AreaDe Soto National Forest · 23 miAirey LakeDe Soto National Forest · 26 miCypress Creek LandingDe Soto National Forest · 41 mi
Turkey Fork Recreation AreaDe Soto National Forest · 65 mi
Fort Pickens Group CampgroundGulf Islands National Seashore · 91 mi
Davis Bayou CampgroundGulf Islands National Seashore · 0.1 miBig Biloxi Recreation AreaDe Soto National Forest · 23 miAirey LakeDe Soto National Forest · 26 miCypress Creek LandingDe Soto National Forest · 41 miTurkey Fork Recreation AreaDe Soto National Forest · 65 miFort Pickens Group CampgroundGulf Islands National Seashore · 91 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon72°Sunny
Tonight53°Clear
Sunday73°Sunny
Sunday Night54°Clear
NWS forecast for Ocean Springs, MS
Source: National Weather Service, LIX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 62°F, day 79°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
100°30°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: BILOXI, MS (USC00220792), 12 miles away and at about the same elevation
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026
Who answers for this land
Davis Bayou Group Campground is in Mississippi’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Mike Ezell (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: National Park Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
The alert naming this campground: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (5.4 km) · Oct 14, 2026
Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported patchy color · Oct 14, 2026
Cell signal: the Park Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.