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From New Orleans, Take Highway 90 west bound to Highway 308. On 308 cross the bayou and take a left at LA 1. Continue on Highway 1 until you come to a sign for Grand Isle. Take a right on the access road which will take you to a four-lane road. Take a left on the four-lane road which will turn back into LA 1. Follow this for about one hour to Grand Isle State Park, which is located on the east end of Grand Isle, off LA 1 on Admiral Craig Drive.
Would love to give a better rating but the mosquitos ruined our visit. Check before you go. Some weeks there are no mosquitoes. When we were there, we could barely leave our car or our trailer without being swarmed and bitten DOZENS of times. The campground is unimaginative; the beach is better than average. The daily visit restrooms/ shower room is very nice. The staff member who created us at the registration booth was very kind and helpful.
This place is beautiful and has definitely cleaned up very well after Ida. Everyone’s been very nice and welcoming to my husband and I who were honeymooning.
My only issues:
The bathrooms are gross. The shower curtains all have mold on them from bottom to top.
They mow their already short grass at 8 am. Almost daily it feels like. I don’t usually like to be “that” person but is it super necessary to mow that early??? When its just knocking dew off???
Otherwise we do plan on coming back.
No sewer hookup but water and electricity (30 & 50 amp).All large pull thru sites. Showers and restrooms clean but ageing a bit. Picnic table and grill at each site. Good dump station. Can't see ocean from sites due to natural sand berm but only about 100 yards away. Palm trees on most sites but not much shade. Close to food, gas, propane. Good value. $33 per night---1/2 price if over 62.
Trashy state park. They’ll let a family with a stroller pay for entry only to discover brackish water closing off the path to the beach and a destroyed boardwalk. I watched them leave disappointed after just getting inside the park.
Park people constantly driving up and down the beach destroying what could otherwise be solitude and harassing you. Are they fixing anything? No. Just bothering you.
Everything is off limits but they’re happy to take your money. Why are tax dollars going into these gas tanks and these guys’ paychecks so they can cruise the beach and bother visitors, when there is so little to visit, and they won’t fix the rest?
