Rutherford Beach | Wild Camping

March 29th, 2024 by whateverman55

free camping right next to the Gulf of Mexico. lots of room to spread out, pit toilets and dumpsters on site.

March 3rd, 2024 by compatibleselect23

Great Locations! Space for 100's of rigs right on the Gulf. Don't pass this place by! 😉🌴

January 2nd, 2024 by clare0rise

Stayed for 3 nights! Absolutely beautiful and plenty of places to park away from other campers. Yes there are mosquitoes, but they aren’t bad until after sunset and right after sunrise. I managed to not get bit even once by simply using bug spray and putting my nets up over my windows.
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December 10th, 2023 by ioverlander

Stayed last winter, staying this winter again. 4 Porta potties cleaned weekly. Cold outdoor shower (intended for cleaning off sand only) is provided. Spigot has been removed since last year. Always a safe place to stay. Sheriff deputies patrol a few times a day. Everyone is nice. Does get windy and buggy at times.

December 8th, 2023 by 2-ioverlander-user

water still has bacteria warning. enormous amounts of large, aggressive mosquitos: they somehow made it into the van at dawn (usually is mosquito proof), we killed maybe 20-30. can't pee into the wind without getting eaten by multiple. negative 2 stars, won't stay here again.

November 26th, 2023 by loulou

top du top je rajoute la photo de la douche

November 26th, 2023 by loulou

je suis venue ici le 25 et 26 nov 2023 sur la plage avec un camping car français de 7 m pas de probleme si on reste sur le sable dur ,trés calme car a cette epoque nous n étions pas les uns sur les autres
en arrivant il y a des WC portatifs ouverts et une douche qui fonctionnée mais je ne sais pas si l eau était potable ,et aussi des poubelles

November 24th, 2023 by herve-lucas

what à Lively place. unfortunatly it was wendy, raining and very cold. si we staid just à day/night. I did'nt find thé water tap near the shower

October 22nd, 2023 by drap_mart

very beautiful place, but at this time of year, I have never seen mosquitoes like that. It's completely terrible , over a thousand on the wall of the tente.
be aware, it's paradise by the day.

May 23rd, 2023 by blownspkr1977

Open beach…barely a house around.
Lots of options to be a fair distance away from others depending on traffic.
May23 Tuesday…closest ppl are 100yards away. Some noise from them but most minimal. Portable Toilets at the entrance w apparently more being added down the beach.
Bugs—— lots of biting flies so coverup. Also small knats that land on you. Some ppl were outside but they were annoying enough that I stayed in the tent mostly.
Sand is mostly hard but just keep an eye on where you park.

May 16th, 2023 by Elephant

Stayed 4 nights and we filled up our watertank at the spigot by the shower, water looks clean, see photo.

April 18th, 2023 by hubrobi

As described. Great stay. Quiet. Could be windy

March 26th, 2023 by cera.goodkarma.hawkins

clean, open camping. lots of vanlifers. mosquitoes are vicious, family friendly

March 23rd, 2023 by 2marmosetsautourdumonde

Really great spot even on a cloudy day. Always nice to spend the night hearing the waves.

March 9th, 2023 by simplyred

Wow, an amazing spot, one of the best. Right on the beach. There is a water spigot where the two showers to rinse at the entrance. Great time, wish I could of stayed longer.

February 18th, 2023 by wigglyroads

everything as described. it's pretty flash 1A for what it is. Very good T-Mobile 5g (100 mbps). there is also water available, which is nice because the nearest store is miles away.

February 6th, 2023 by thomas.juli22

As described. Very nice spot! Clean porta potties and dumpsters so keep it clean.

January 22nd, 2023 by nasuzie2005

Wonderful spot where you can park right on the beach, hard packed and beautiful. TONS OF SHELLS!

January 21st, 2023 by afinedog

this is a really nice change from being in the swamp. as said b4 free camping on the beach. it is cold and raining. the sand is stable for my 2wd sprinter even in the rain. quiet . peaceful. great for running the dogs. or sitting cozy in my van watching the waves. at night big tankers and the oil platforms are lit up like spaceships. there are all kinds of rigs camped out here. plenty of room. row of porta potties at the entrance. full bars Verizon with booster. plenty good without it.

January 16th, 2023 by jadegent10

SO COOL! Drive right on the beach and camp. Soo many campers/vans here. Legit right on the beach!! I noticed outside showers and a few porta potties when driving in. deff check out!! Amazing place for a few days.

November 25th, 2022 by k.daoust

just arrived! it's raining but wow! that feeling of driving ON the beach is so cool! there's approx 8 or 10 other Rv. so exited! will post update tomorrow!
the night was rough with the rain, the lightning and the wind (note that we are sleeping in a 5x8 cargo so it may not be as harsh for a RV.
even if it was raining again in the morning, a walk on the beach with millions of seashells was amazing!

November 21st, 2022 by bronze60

Clean, firm beach where you can park next to the Gulf of Mexico and make new friends, if you’re so inclined. We stayed four nights with no trouble.
I’d like to challenge my fellow travellers to pick up any old or new bits of plastic and trash around your vehicle to keep this place available forever.

July 31st, 2022 by gabcha.familia

Super spot! Seul au monde le soir! Accessible en camping car. Pas besoin de roues motrices! Idéal pour les enfants à marée basse pour la pêche aux bigorneaux!

May 11th, 2022 by anarkiah.com

As described: packed sand for easy access, beautiful sunsets+rises, lots of big—and biting—bugs at night, relatively inoffensive porta potties and trash cans. It’s a popular spot but there’s plenty of space for all sorts of rigs. l

April 8th, 2022 by c2

beautiful quiet beach. stars and host lights on the water are amazing. made mistake of having door open with lights in van on…there are bugs. can’t wait for morning to see more of where we are

April 3rd, 2022 by /blogs/167533

Perfect place for a couple nights to stay. Can be busy during the weekend (so I heard) and also during the day. Lots of families swimming and fishing. Beach is littered. Trash can overflowing. But if u are self contained or at least have a bathroom u are good.

March 30th, 2022 by lumilt

Great place to camp on the beach. Porta potty and garbage cans available. Stay on hard packed sand. A number of RVs got stuck during our stay. Water shallow by the beach with breakers…

March 6th, 2022 by heidimlee

Word is out! RVs, campers, vans for miles. As far as the eye could see. At least two set ups looked semi permanent. It was a Saturday night, so also locals cruising in pick up trucks. Still a lovely, wild place to enjoy. Hope it lasts.

March 3rd, 2022 by calypso_overland

Great place to camp on the beach. Approximately 1-1.5 miles long. Plenty of room to spread out and enjoy. Pack in-pack out.

March 2nd, 2022 by joanne

LOVE this beach!! amazing shells, sunsets are right across the water to the right, also hard packed sand to drive on. No permit needed. I just can't say enough about it. I got loads of footage on my vlog https://youtu.be/GeP5B4eVL0M you can check it out here!! also you can see the drive into the beach area in there as well.

February 27th, 2022 by youtube.com

Our second time passing through the area and staying here. Spent 2 nights this time. About a dozen other vehicles all along the beach. Very quiet. Felt very safe. Will definitely come back.

February 11th, 2022 by Cubby Van Life

Hello Road, I mean, Beach People! As everyone said, this is an immaculate, beautiful, free beach. Thousands of birds to watch! Porta johns are cleaned weekly and they are really spotless. Most people here appear to be full-time road people rather than campers or weekenders. Very quiet and respectful of others space and no loud music is played nor are there bright lights. So many stars at night (everyone keeps their units dark, thank you very much). Go outside and test your grade school constellation skills. Please keep it pristine and pick up random beach trash on your walks. A great place for shell gathering. This is a treasure. Keep it that way.

February 8th, 2022 by Gramp.Camp

Excellent place! As others described. Sheriff drove by and waved. About eight other vehicles/campers on the beach when we were there.

January 22nd, 2022 by tonfaucher

Like others said one of the best place to be parked right on the beach i will come back for sure if i'm around here again ✌️

January 7th, 2022 by vsbrinkman

Here on a Friday night and maybe 8 vehicles of all ilks including vans, buses, and even a brave little car. Sheriff drove by and waive and a couple of other locals checking out the ‘tourists’. Surprisingly little trash and port-a-potties at the beginning of the beach. Google Maos brought us straight to “Rutherford Beach”.

January 7th, 2022 by vsbrinkman

Here on a Friday night and maybe 8 vehicles of all kinds of ilk including buses, vans, and regular old cars. Sand lovely to drive over. Sheriff drove by and waived. Surprisingly clean. Port-o-potties at the beginning. Couple of locals drove by looking at the ‘tourists’. Google Maps ‘Rutherford Beach’ and brought us straight here.

December 31st, 2021 by agriculturalhay93

Awesome beach to camp out on. No fees as far as we could tell. Trash and home plumbing going to the beach to the west of the entrance. Beautiful place though to camp outside of that. No one bothers you and feels completely safe. Great sunrise in the morning and nice breeze. Would absolutely stay here again

December 19th, 2021 by howmuch4ribs

Nice free beach with dumpsters and outhouses. Great cell service for Verizon.

December 14th, 2021 by brunofortin36

Une belle et longue plage naturelle qui fait environ 1 mile. Nous sommes installés directement sur le sable. Beaucoup de coquillages. Un endroit très zen où il fait bon se reposer et passer la nuit. Nous avons fait du vélo sur la plage.

December 2nd, 2021 by jenpage23

Beautiful quiet place to sleep night on the water. Amazing sunrise! Biting bugs so bring a mosquito net. Spacious enough you can park away from others. Trash and and relatively clean porta potty row is nearby

October 18th, 2021 by jennyyin3

Drove a few minutes into the beach, a lot of privacy! AT&T 4 bars, right next to the water. Slept in my car, no bugs got in. Didn't swim because of the high bacteria level warning

June 2nd, 2021 by trey.morningstar

Quite a drive from I-10 but the views were worth the drive. The beach was nice and there were areas of hard/soft sand. Backed onto the beach next to the pit toilets. Quiet night with some ATV noise and late night arrivals. Not too windy but it did rain once throughout the night. Mosquitos were killer in the morning.

March 26th, 2021 by flinnch

Beautiful spot to camp right on the beach. Peaceful. Word of warning: mosquitos. They will swarm you and eat you alive. If you have enough bug spray this place is worth it.

February 3rd, 2021 by Chicksdoit2

Outstanding free beach camping! Pack it in pack it out. No amenities. Had a wonderful stay, highly recommend

January 18th, 2021 by nathandrillot

High winds so we decided to move on. Beach looks like it took a lot of damage from the previous hurricanes. Besides some ATV’s no one else around.

December 29th, 2020 by jvossauce6

Beautiful beach to fall asleep to the sunset (we were tired from the day!) or wake up to the water. Mosquitos weren’t a problem during end of December. Those pesky beasts.

November 16th, 2020 by info

Can’t drive all the way to the beach as of now because of hurricane damage (Delta I think). Coming from the west, the road was closed a few miles before the beach tour off and we had to go around and come at it from the North. It’s to dark to see what the beach access looks like. There are two other vehicles with us as of now. It appears EVERYTHING has been demolished. The ground is firm enough right off the closed sign, but not sure how a large rig would do turning around.

August 17th, 2020 by instagram.com/lenomadevan

Great place to spend the night, IF you come prepared. We got here late at night and were the only ones at the beach. The wind was strong enough to keep the mosquitoes away so we left our back door open and hung a net. Woke up around 2am getting mauled by mosquitoes. Idk how they got in but they managed. I killed at least 40 mosquitoes, showered in mosquito repellent and went back to sleep. In the morning we got stuck in the sand trying to leave but God bless the good ol southern hospitality. A guy came to the rescue right away with his jacked up truck.

July 16th, 2020 by trackerofplants

here July 16 2020. nice wind all night, about as good as you can get for car sleeping in the bayou in the summer. almost kept the mosquitoes off. I eventually hung a net because one is enough to ruin the night. sign warns of bacteria in the ocean and water is brown. I didn't try going in there.

May 22nd, 2020 by victorvando

Beautiful. Right on the beach. Try the hot po boy by the docks and buy lots of shrimps straight from the boats for $3 a pound.

May 22nd, 2020 by victorvando

Great place, just watch the mosquitoes if the wind dies.

March 22nd, 2020 by polarsteps.com

Super spot au bord de la plage. Les toilettes venait d'être vidangées à notre arrivée. Nous sommes restés 4 nuit à cet endroit, bonne réception internet 4g.

La plage est idéale pour se baigner mais les déchets sont nombreux. On vous invite à les récupérer pour rendre l'endroit plus propre, comme nous l'avons fait au cours des 4 journées que nous avons passées ici.

February 27th, 2020 by DowntoWander

Awesome place to camp along the Gulf. We stayed 1 week in the gravel lot. Mosquitoes are terrible at times, but no complaints other than that.

January 20th, 2020 by patblack821

Good place to spend a few nights. No water available turned off for winter. Port-a-can and dumpster. Not a lot of beach parking spots. Caution could get stuck. Pet friendly

January 9th, 2020 by welove2drive

At the free beach. Water is brown, I'm told it's from the Mississippi River.

January 3rd, 2020 by Make Like An Apeman

Good spot. Lovely to hear the roar of the surf as we slept.

If the sand is too soft you can park in the gravel parking lot or off a small road that runs from the parking lot behind the sand dunes.

December 24th, 2019 by marielouisecaissie

Superb place, beach as far as the eye can see. Place where vans are tolerated directly on the beach. Excellent ability to find a small intimate corner.

December 6th, 2019 by julika.guenther

Everything as described. The sand just wasn't firm enough for my van, I got stuck but someone pulled me back out. Other than that SUPER BEAUTIFUL! ❤

November 14th, 2019 by gtherreault

Very nice spot to spend a night or a couple of days. Four RV’s parked on the sand near the beach. Very quiet and only the sound of the crashing waves to put you to sleep.

Nearby dumpster and toilets available.

November 9th, 2019 by SmallCraftExpeditionGuide

Nice free overnight place to stay. Fine shell road. No improvements.

November 6th, 2019 by croodstrotters.wordpress.com

Hello
So lovely place to park your motorhome for the night.
We are in november and there is a lot of people here.
No wind for us....but...the mosquitos are serial killer here☠
Quiet night.
You have a restroom, a cold shower, picnic table.
Enjoy this place.

June 17th, 2019 by rhysandnatalia

nice spot very close to the beach but on paved area. looks like a few permanent folks out here. pretty windy but we appreciated the breeze. porta potties are really gross and I'd say not usable. shower works. shame to see so much garbage around.

May 6th, 2019 by vagavaughans

Nice quiet spot on gravel. There is a covered picnic area, trash and pit toilets. A few vehicles camped down the beach. Very windy when we were here but nice relief from the heat. great quiet spot.

March 26th, 2019 by alixalfke

Wow! What a beach. Very nice wherever you park. We went further down the road and were the only ones for the night. Beware of those pesky buggies at nighttime. They’re a pain. But the beach is awesome and seashells are everywhere!!

March 21st, 2019 by brandon

Great place to drive right on the beach and boondock. Quiet with other boondockers but very few people other than that

February 16th, 2019 by lifeasweroamit

great spot on the beach. mosquitos were horrible so we weren't able to stay overnight. but 5 class A's parked on the sand and a few rigs in the gravel lot.

February 15th, 2019 by ymxfss

Nice boondocking site with about 8 rv present when we arrived.

February 5th, 2019 by lrln

Sweet place. A lot of folks staying the night in the gravel lot. Not many on the actual sand. Quiet other than the crashing waves. Tons of mosquitoes in January! Showers weren’t running. Two porta-pottis.

January 12th, 2019 by patfux

nice place on the beach. At my time I didn't believe that I could drive with my Ford E150 RWD direct on the Sandy Beach. but there is an gravel parking lot in the front of the beach, where you could stay as well. At my time the showers don't work, maybe because of the "wintertime". On Saturday there were a lot of locals they drive with there ATV on the beach. toilets we're clean.

September 19th, 2018 by familybehindthecurve

Nice place when there are no/ less mosquitos (I probably killed 30 of them in our van so we slept doors close like in a swedish sauna). There is a sign when entering the beach saying level of bacterias in water doesn't allow swimming til it gets back to normal so at your own risks until it gets better

July 28th, 2018 by kaatriine

We stayed there 2 nights. Nice beach with loads of people fishing.
There are millions of small flies at night which is very annoying but apart from that it’s a great place to stay.
There is a cold shower outside and clean pit toilets.

June 22nd, 2018 by alvaughany

Great beach you can drive your vehicle on and camp if you'd like. We were here on a friday, nearly all day, and we seen maybe 30 people the entire day. Had a blast in the sand and water, lots of seashells in the water and on beach.

May 27th, 2018 by b_rad44

Amazing location right on the water. Sand firm enough to safely drive on! Backed up to beach and slept with back hatch opened merely a few feet from the crashing waves! Will definitely return when passing through!

April 10th, 2018 by lyndsay1986

A very nice beach with views of over 30 oil rigs in the far distance, south in the Gulf. Cold showers are at the entrance to the beach as well as picnic tables and some bbq's. We stayed two pleasant nights.

March 23rd, 2018 by hordago.fr

We stayed two days parked on the beach.
A few other campers but there is place enough to be comfortable anyway.
Free.

March 16th, 2018 by Wilde Weite Welt

Perfect quiet and peaceful oceanfront beach camping with the sound of the waves. There were 4 more campers along the half mile beach were you can camp. Cold showers and picnic tables are available.

March 5th, 2018 by gilaume

great spot ,quiet and clean.
perfect to relax.

February 12th, 2018 by eclecticjonah

quiet beach that you can camp right by the water

February 11th, 2018 by missdryne

At the end of Parish Rd 359. We spent 2 nights. Really quiet... with the sound of the waves! Pit toilets. Showers not working because of winter. Perfect spot.

January 25th, 2018 by 77399

Great spot still valid. They even put up some picnic tables and BBQ and two outdoor showers. Unfortunately the showers didn't work when we were there maybe because of winter time.

January 14th, 2018 by michael.lafreniere

very nice free beach and can sleep on the beach with the camper

November 24th, 2016 by deschenesisabelle1

Very Nice place! So quiet! Easy to drive on the sand with our motorhome. There are dry toilets. No dumpster. Sleeping with the sound of waves! <3

November 9th, 2016 by Riverrat

Quiet beach during the week. Sand was ok for driving.
Stayed for 2 nights, one vehicle passed by. Cell coverage good.

February 19th, 2016 by dumone

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