Grand Bay Welcome Center

Not sure why this gem is not on Campendium yet. Rest areas are generally noisy and not our preferred stop while traveling but this one is far from your average rest area. the welcome center is architecturally beautiful and the parking areas huge with several paved and well lighted parking lots for cars, RV's and Semi-truck parking but No trouble finding quiet areas to park and rest. 2 Dump stations and plenty of water spigots to refill the tanks, vending machines inside, trash receptacles, during daytime hours friendly folks running the welcome area inside and running around day and night (security?) This is probably one of the nicest rest areas we've been too. Now some of the bad (Dont worry not that bad but...) So my only complaints could be the locations of water spigots, oddly placed and most will take longer hoses to refill water for RV's, no water spigot at the dump station? nope and the careless people dumping have made a mess of the area with no way to clean it up, The lights in the parking and really around the whole place are bright! finding a dimly lit area to sleep at night is tough (great for security though so a trade off) Parking area is quite large and speed of vehicles driving through was pretty bad and one last thing, there is a sign stating "NO Overnight parking" at one of the main parking areas and I asked inside about this, they said "parking overnight is not a problem just no camping" We were here 2 nights (Unexpectedly) and never had anyone say anything, we were quite comfortable staying here and would again! Cheers, OE (Cell coverage 2 bars 4glte t-mobile, 3 bars 4glte ATT) Giving 5 stars and we never give rest areas 5 stars