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2026 Season availability
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This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
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- Potable Water
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- Beach Access
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Reviews (1133)
What Guests Are Saying
Cumberland Island National Seashore offers a beautiful and peaceful camping experience, with spacious, clean campsites and ample amenities like drinking water and cold outdoor showers. Many visitors appreciated the island's stunning landscapes, diverse wildlife, and opportunities for exploration, often recommending longer stays to fully enjoy the area. While some noted challenges such as heat, rain, and occasional issues with park staff or facilities, the overall sentiment is overwhelmingly positive, with many expressing a desire to return.
What Guests Are Saying
Cumberland Island National Seashore offers a beautiful and peaceful camping experience, with spacious, clean campsites and ample amenities like drinking water and cold outdoor showers. Many visitors appreciated the island's stunning landscapes, diverse wildlife, and opportunities for exploration, often recommending longer stays to fully enjoy the area. While some noted challenges such as heat, rain, and occasional issues with park staff or facilities, the overall sentiment is overwhelmingly positive, with many expressing a desire to return.
Review Summary
J S
VerifiedJune 5, 2024 • Stayed at: 003, Loop: Stafford Beach
Don't waste your time camping. Anything worth seeing is at the Dungeness Ruin and can be seen in a few hours. No need to subject yourself to the insane amount of ticks, palmetto bugs and raccoons.
Other than the building ruins, animals and wild horses, this island isn't worth seeing. There are a lot of trails but they are very boring, no need to walk more than 10 ft and you've seen what all the trails look like. The trails and campsites are infested with ticks! Treating gear and clothing with permethrin and wearing deet bug spray does nothing. These are some mutant ticks that drink deet for breakfast! Within 5 mins of setting up my tent, I have 1 tick on the outside and 2 INSIDE my tent, that was TREATED!
The beach is nothing special. The horses don't really hang out there and it's just a big open beach. Any other beach would be fine and have a lot more to do!!
Stafford Site 003 Had standing water in the firepit and the food locker wouldn't open. I ended up using the food locker at site 2. Site 2 was closed for some reason but the food locker was fine. I informed the rangers on site. They already knew about these issues. Food lockers are large and 1 is provided with each site at Stafford. Locker size is probably 3.5' tall x 2' deep x 2' wide.
J S
VerifiedJune 5, 2024 • Stayed at: 003, Loop: Stafford Beach
Don't waste your time camping. Anything worth seeing is at the Dungeness Ruin and can be seen in a few hours. No need to subject yourself to the insane amount of ticks, palmetto bugs and raccoons.
Other than the building ruins, animals and wild horses, this island isn't worth seeing. There are a lot of trails but they are very boring, no need to walk more than 10 ft and you've seen what all the trails look like. The trails and campsites are infested with ticks! Treating gear and clothing with permethrin and wearing deet bug spray does nothing. These are some mutant ticks that drink deet for breakfast! Within 5 mins of setting up my tent, I have 1 tick on the outside and 2 INSIDE my tent, that was TREATED!
The beach is nothing special. The horses don't really hang out there and it's just a big open beach. Any other beach would be fine and have a lot more to do!!
Stafford Site 003 Had standing water in the firepit and the food locker wouldn't open. I ended up using the food locker at site 2. Site 2 was closed for some reason but the food locker was fine. I informed the rangers on site. They already knew about these issues. Food lockers are large and 1 is provided with each site at Stafford. Locker size is probably 3.5' tall x 2' deep x 2' wide.
Kirk S
VerifiedJuly 12, 2024 • Stayed at: GN, Loop: Sea Camp
Such a magical place! The campground is well maintained, the restrooms and showers are clean
Denise V
VerifiedJuly 12, 2024 • Stayed at: 002, Loop: Sea Camp
It was lovely! New bathrooms are fantastic and well maintained. We find bicycles a must and don't miss visiting Plum Orchard and the wonderful house tour. Campsites are private and we have always found other campers polite. We usually don't use bug spray but it is a MUST if you go off on less used trails. The beach is beautiful and wildlife bountiful. We love this place and look forward to our 5th visit.
Kirk S
VerifiedJuly 12, 2024 • Stayed at: GN, Loop: Sea Camp
Such a magical place! The campground is well maintained, the restrooms and showers are clean
Denise V
VerifiedJuly 12, 2024 • Stayed at: 002, Loop: Sea Camp
It was lovely! New bathrooms are fantastic and well maintained. We find bicycles a must and don't miss visiting Plum Orchard and the wonderful house tour. Campsites are private and we have always found other campers polite. We usually don't use bug spray but it is a MUST if you go off on less used trails. The beach is beautiful and wildlife bountiful. We love this place and look forward to our 5th visit.
KELLY V
VerifiedJuly 13, 2024 • Stayed at: 015, Loop: Sea Camp
July isn’t the best month to camp but nothing surpasses the beauty of what felt like a fairy forest with crystal clear ocean water. It was amazing! Campground well cared for.
KELLY V
VerifiedJuly 13, 2024 • Stayed at: 015, Loop: Sea Camp
July isn’t the best month to camp but nothing surpasses the beauty of what felt like a fairy forest with crystal clear ocean water. It was amazing! Campground well cared for.
Martha W
VerifiedJuly 15, 2024 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: Sea Camp
Cumberland Island was such a magical place! Crazy twisted live oaks, so many animals, the beach, ruins from the Gilded Age— what's not to like! One of the information signs explained that the process of "salt pruning" causes the trees to grown lower and more twisted which I talked about for weeks. The rangers were super helpful and they even have a booklet for kids to earned their own Jr. Ranger badge, which they loved.
Martha W
VerifiedJuly 15, 2024 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: Sea Camp
Cumberland Island was such a magical place! Crazy twisted live oaks, so many animals, the beach, ruins from the Gilded Age— what's not to like! One of the information signs explained that the process of "salt pruning" causes the trees to grown lower and more twisted which I talked about for weeks. The rangers were super helpful and they even have a booklet for kids to earned their own Jr. Ranger badge, which they loved.
Location & Directions for Cumberland Island National Seashore Camping Permits
101 Wheeler St, St. Marys, GA 31558 United States
Elevation: 2 ft
Getting There
<p><strong>NPS VISITOR CENTER/FERRY CHECK-IN:</strong> </p>
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<li>Take Exit 3 from Interstate 95. At the exit stop light turn east on to Highway 40. </li>
<li>Follow the signs traveling east into Historic St. Marys. Highway 40 East will become ...
NPS VISITOR CENTER/FERRY CHECK-IN:
- Take Exit 3 from Interstate 95. At the exit stop light turn east on to Highway 40.
- Follow the signs traveling east into Historic St. Marys. Highway 40 East will become Osborne St.
- Once you reach the waterfront, turn right at the stop sign onto St Marys Street.
- The NPS Visitor Center is in the two story, blue building one block down on the left.
The Mainland Visitor Center is located at 113 St. Marys Street West, Marys, GA 31558. Use this address to arrive at the right location. Do not use "Cumberland Island National Seashore" as this will not guide you to the correct location.
Directions & Transportation page
Parking:
All visitors - day visitors and campers - must park in the Cumberland Island Parking Lot one block west of the Visitor Center.
Bus and RV parking is located in marked spots along the roadway along the western edge of the parking area (Seagrove St.).
Getting to the Island:
The only way to get to the island is by passenger ferry (not a car ferry) or private boat. For information about making a reservation with the National Park Service official concessionaire operated ferry visit our Reservations page or visit the Cumberland Island Ferry website.
Highway access
Cumberland Island National Seashore is accessible via Exit 3 from Interstate 95, which is approximately 5 miles to the west. From the exit, travelers use Highway 40 east into Historic St. Marys.
Policies & Rules
Cancellation policy
- Reservation fees are non-refundable. For campsites, cabins, lookouts, yurts, group sites, and similar stays, we charge a reservation service fee of $8.
- Standard cancellations usually have a $10 cancellation fee. Customers can generally cancel before the check-in date online.
- Late cancellation rules differ by stay type.
- Individual campsites: cancelling after 12:00am local time the day before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- Cabins, lookouts, and yurts: cancelling less than 14 days before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- One-night reservations: a late cancellation usually forfeits the full amount paid, up to the total original reservation cost.
- Modifications are allowed before the cut-off window, but fees depend on the change. Changing to dates completely outside the original reservation dates may trigger a $10 change fee. Extending or shortening a stay that still includes original dates usually has no change fee, though refunds may depend on timing and facility rules. Switching to the same type of campsite for the same dates usually has no change fee, but price differences are charged or refunded.
- Early departures may or may not be refunded. At certain facilities, partial refunds may be possible if staff can mark the site available for other visitors. No refund is given for a night if the early departure is requested after that day's check-out time.
- Security deposits are separate. Security deposits may be refunded to the original payment method if the facility is left in acceptable condition, as determined by the property.
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