Henderson Beach State Park

I love this park and the staff is great. Unfortunately the tourist helicopters flying over all day, every day distracts from the beauty of the park. The park has almost everything you could desire - power and water (no sewer), clean heated / air conditioned bathhouses, laundry facilities, easy access to the beach. The campground is very nice; there's plenty of space, there's great privacy between sites and the campground is spotless. The beach is gorgeous and not overrun - there were times when I was the only one there. The location is very convenient with access from US98 - but with the current road construction, you can't turn left into the park. Walmart is literally right across 98 from the park and Publix is easy driving distance away. There are any number of restaurants along 98.

I absolutely in every way loved this place. I had no idea how lucky I was to get 2 nights, as it seems to be booked in perpetuity.

1. Incredibly private sites, both back in and pull through
2. Extremely modern, clean restrooms
3. Hot showers
4. Beautiful landscaping makes you feel like an RV Resort in the Keys
5. Amazing staff and the camp hosts helped us move spots during our stay by keeping us up to date on when we could transition

Very hard to imagine a park any nicer with this view, beach access or access to shopping/touristy stuff anywhere. We love our boondocking setup but this place is our top list to come back to.

Although it rained on us most of the weekend. We had a totally spacious and private site. We had no sites behind us and tons of brush between us and the neighbors. Can’t even tell if there was someone next to us. Given that it rained most of the time the site drained perfectly. We were two spots away from the bath house and there was a trail that lead to the beach. Definitely want to come back in the summer when we can enjoy mor of what the park has to offer.

It was a bizarre experience, turning on 98, passing numerous strip malls and restaurants on both sides of the road, with the gps telling us that our destination was only a mile away. But, as soon as you turn into the park, it is as if none of that stuff even exists. You can see the resorts at the edges of the park from the beach, but inside the campground- you have to struggle to try and see something around the thick, low foliage. The saw palmettos create privacy between each campsite. You couldn't see your neighbor at all- at least not where we were.

I swore we heard the waves all night the first night we were there. There was a huge weather system moving in, so the waves were bigger.

The heated bathrooms are so clean, and all the toilets worked just fine, with locking stall doors and hot showers.

The campground hosts and park volunteers were some of the nicest people we encountered on our trip. Firewood was easily bought from them, but make sure you have exact change.

The only downside I found was that you can hear the highway in the daytime, but at night it is mostly quiet. Occasionally, loud planes fly in and out of a nearby airport, and sightseeing helicopters fly overhead- but Destin is a bustling community so it would be silly to expect absolute peace and quiet.

The sites at this campground are the most private I have ever seen. We could not even see any neighbors from our site #18. The site was a long pull-through with more than enough space for our 43 ft. toy hauler and we even had room for the rear patio. There is a very nice walking path to the beach, and every evening we enjoyed gorgeous sunsets. The location is perfect for visiting Destin. Verizon and AT&T had pretty weak signals, but T-Mobile worked great.

Wish I would have stayed longer, way longer, but the sites were booked out. I had a great site by the bath house, there is a fairly short but very clean trail to the beach. A little bit of woods and then a boardwalk over the dunes. The beach was damn perfect. No shirt and barefoot in December was nice. I did drink on the beach of course with no issues. I wanted to bring my dog(pets not allowed on beach) I should have I didn't see any officials of any kind. Park was good, smaller loops right across from a bunch of shops and a very cheap and huge ABC store. Bath houses were good clean and worked properly. Staff was friendly as well as others I met there. Great stay but there is ton of construction all over the road that parallels the campground and is very noisy but I didn't care. Wifi worked good as well.

Beautiful state park, nice site privacy due to vegetation (some the best we have seen), nice paved trails and raised walk leading to the beach. The beach front is 1.5 miles wide; we walked to a local restaurant via the beach during our stay. There was some road/area noise (concert) during our stay, even given the distance the campground area is from the road, we found that surprising—but we still enjoyed our stay. The angle of the site that we stayed in, compared to the road, and the dense vegetation on the interior road limited our swing room when backing into the site (possible, but it took a little time); many of the other sites would be easier to back-into (i.e., better site angled, compared to the road, and there are also some very large pull-thru sites). The larger pull through sites can easily handle big rigs. An oasis in a congested area.

I absolutely loved this campground. We were here for a week in Mid-February and really enjoyed it.

The sites are electric and water only. Dump station available. They sites are gravel and very private with foliage hiding most neighbors and some pull through a hide the road as well. There is laundry and clean bathrooms with showers. The overall park was very clean and well maintained.

The campground is relatively close to a major road. During our stay there was construction going on and there was quite a bit of noise from that. There were nights that were less noisy and all you could hear was the ocean. I still loved it here.