About Davis Bayou Campground
Number of accommodations: 50
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (569)
What Guests Are Saying
Davis Bayou Campground receives high praise for its cleanliness, well-maintained facilities, and friendly staff, making for a pleasant camping experience. Guests appreciate the convenient location near Ocean Springs and the variety of outdoor activities available, along with improved utilities and amenities. While there are some concerns about noise levels and ADA policies, many visitors express their intention to return due to the campground's overall charm and natural beauty.
What Guests Are Saying
Davis Bayou Campground receives high praise for its cleanliness, well-maintained facilities, and friendly staff, making for a pleasant camping experience. Guests appreciate the convenient location near Ocean Springs and the variety of outdoor activities available, along with improved utilities and amenities. While there are some concerns about noise levels and ADA policies, many visitors express their intention to return due to the campground's overall charm and natural beauty.
Review Summary
Jill N
VerifiedMarch 22, 2025 • Stayed at: 26, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
Nice campground. Lots to see and do. Fishing pier, boat launch, trails. Make sure you know the correct length of you site as many are short and all vehicles must be on paved pad and not on grass.
Starlit T
VerifiedMarch 21, 2025 • Stayed at: 51, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
Davis Bayou was possibly the quietest campground we’ve ever experienced! Grounds are well kept. All facilities were nice. Bugs were a bit of a bother. But we set up our screen room and were still able to enjoy being outdoors. We enjoyed watching the osprey in the area. Visitors center is beautiful. Campground is located closer to city / neighborhoods than we expected but it was no bother. Definitely recommend if your looking relaxation.
Jean B
VerifiedMarch 20, 2025 • Stayed at: 09, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
Loved Davis Bayou Campground. So convenient to Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Friendly camp host and Ranger. Clean restrooms and showers. Would definitely stay here again
JERRY H
VerifiedMarch 19, 2025 • Stayed at: 52, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
We have never heard more obnoxious yelling or felt more unwelcome and under the microscope at a campground in our years of travel. We were in a spot close to the Host/Park Ranger office. The female park ranger would stand outside of her door daily and yell at people to slow down. For Pete's sake, stop yelling! Do you know how annoying that is to the campground residents? Give a citation, a notice, etc., but stop screaming at people like a loud nagging mother!
Some residents would have 3 tires on the pavement and one on the gravel. There is no grass around many of the sites. If there was grass around the sites, I would certainly understand about keeping all vehicle tires on the parking pavement because you wouldn't want to damage the the grass with ruts and other tire damage. But if there is nothing but gravel surrounding the site, the resident is not going to damage any grounds with one tire in the gravel. Citations were rendered by the park rangers for this specific example.
My wife had injured herself and had difficulty walking. She left the site and limped all the way to the overflow parking to get the truck (which is parked on gravel and grass in the overflow, by the way) so she could go run errands while I was gone for the day. She got all the way out by the highway when she realized she had left her phone at the site. She turned around and went back to the site to get her phone, but couldn't bear to walk all the way from the overflow and back. She parked in front of the rig with the intent to go in and get her phone and leave. She had one tire on the gravel. As soon as she got out of the truck to go in and get it, the park ranger yelled from many yards away telling her she couldn't park there with the one tire on the gravel. It was nauseating and upsetting.
The campground itself was well maintained but we can't make ourselves stay there again because of the way they made us feel. Maybe we would park in a different site to avoid such scrutiny.
Howard L
VerifiedMarch 18, 2025 • Stayed at: 45, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
good locaton
Laurie O
VerifiedMarch 14, 2025 • Stayed at: 42, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
Helpful host and excellent ranger at the campground. The visitor center’s ranger knew local history of the forts all along the coastline. I learned some things from him.
jim b
VerifiedMarch 12, 2025 • Stayed at: 21, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
Very nice but the sites are short. Showers could use some painting.
John E
VerifiedMarch 12, 2025 • Stayed at: 35, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
I found the sites well designed with ready access to electricity and water at my site and a nice path from the back of my site leading down to the bayou in the back. There wasn't readily available firewood in the campground however, so I had to drive into town and buy it at the nearest grocery store.
Susan L
VerifiedMarch 10, 2025 • Stayed at: 31, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
We had a great time. We loved Ranger Patty at the camp office, and Ranger Dan (?) who gave us a Ranger's Tour of the Bayou (Free! Offered every day!). We had a very nice site, quiet and pretty. Bathrooms were clean and toasty - nice showers. Great location! We rode bikes into Ocean Springs almost every day, and along the Bayou and Biloxi Bay. We also drove to Biloxi twice. Would definitely stay here again.
Geneva L
VerifiedMarch 9, 2025 • Stayed at: 41, Loop: Davis Bayou Campground
I highly recommend camping here. The grounds,bathroom,and showers are kept very clean. The camp host was friendly and accommodating. Great price with power and water.
Location Davis Bayou Campground
Address:
Guis Visitor Center
Ocean Springs, MS, 39564
United States
NORMAL DIRECTIONS
From New Orleans, Slidell, Diamondhead or other points west on I-10: Travel east to Exit 50 MS 609/Ocean Springs. Keep right (South) on Washington Ave. toward Ocean Springs. In 2.5 miles turn left at the Red Light onto Bienville Blvd/Hwy 90 east. Turn right on Park Road entering Gulf Islands National Seashore Parkway. Follow signs to Davis Bayou Campground and Registration Office.
From Pensacola or Mobile, or other points east on I-10: Travel west to Exit 57, Gautier/Ocean Springs. Turn left (South) onto MS Hwy 57. Travel 1/2 mile and take a right at the red light (Hwy 90). Look for brown sign on right, Park road on left. Stay straight to enter Gulf Islands National Seashore, Davis Bayou. Follow signs to Davis Bayou Campground and Registration Office.
Latitude & Longitude: 30.3978 / -88.7955
Elevation: 6 feet
Policies & Rules
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Rules at Davis Bayou Campground: The campground office is open from 8am-4pm. If you have any problems and cannot wait till the office opens, please see the campground host on site #3. Check in time is 1:00 PM. Please do not arrive before check in time. Check out time is 11:00 AM. Between the busy season of January 1 through March 31, campers may stay a maximum of 14 consecutive days in Davis Bayou Campground. Between April 1 through December 31, campers may stay a maximum of 28 days total, in two 14-day increments with 2-day break in between. At the end of 14 days, campers must completely remove themselves and their property from the National Seashore for a minimum of 2 days (48 hours) before returning for another overnight visit. Stay limits apply to all occupants, not just the individual who makes the reservation. Campers are limited to 42 nights in a calendar year. |
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When making reservations be sure to include your vehicle length to your trailer length to make sure all your vehicles will fit on the desired site. Please remember all wheels must be on the pavement at all times. This includes RV, cars/trucks, motorcycles, boat trailers, and car haulers. If you cannot park on the pavement then you must use the overflow parking near the campground. Parking of automobiles on sites must be in-line with RV's or trailer. You cannot park perpendicular on the pad. If you do not fit that way , the vehicle must be moved to overflow parking. |
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All sites permit either two tents or one RV (motorhome/fifth-wheel/pop-up trailer) and one tent. All sites have 50/30 amp breakers and water connections. Each water connection has a backflow built into the faucet. All sites allow a maximum of eight occupants and two vehicles per site. |
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If arriving more than 24hours after the start of your reservation, call (228) 230-4136 or your reservation will be cancelled and a $20 no-show fee plus the cost of the first night's stay |
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Generators are not permitted at any time in the campground. NO Portable air conditioning units used for tents. Nothing may be tied or hung from the trees, no hot tubs, and no swimming pools bigger than 5 feet wide by 15 inches deep. RV's trailers, and automobiles cannot be washed on your site. |
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We do not accept mail for campers at the campground or visitor center. |
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NO Electric car charging in the campground |
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Pets are allowed and must be on a leash, not to exceed 6 feet at all times. Pet owners are responsibile for cleaning up after their pets. Pets are not allowed on any beach or inside any structures, and may not make excessive noise inside the campgound. |
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Automatic gates are now in place at Davis Bayou. The gates will close at sunset; registered campers arriving after sunset need to call 228-230-4136 no later than 4:00 p.m. for the gate code. AS A REMINDER, THE GATE CODE IS IN YOUR CONFIRMATION EMAIL FROM REC. GOV |
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ATTENTION: Delivery of RVs is allowed by companies that have a CUA (Commercial Use Authorization) only. If a company arrives at the entrance gate to deliver an RV without a CUA they will be refused entrance. For your own benefit, please be sure the company that you are renting from has a CUA with Gulf Islands National Seashore. |
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Gathering of down, dead wood is permitted only in the campground, not along trails or in the forest. Do not bring out-of-state firewood. You may purchase firewood outside the park in Ocean Springs. Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! GRILLS must be on the fire pit or a table you bring, Please DO NOT cook on top of the picnic table. |
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For more information, visit the Gulf Islands National Seashore website at www.nps.gov/guis. |