Nice welcome center with big parking lot where you can part pretty far from the semis. Free coffee in the morning!

expensive, but quite nice really. great beach, little nature trail through the swamp, gazebo.

A really interesting place. The entrance and Visitors Center are five miles off the highway, then it's another five miles to the payoff, the lighthouse and actual Gulf of Mexico. The Visitors Center looks quite deluxe, but both times I have been hurrying to make sunset at the beach, and both times I forgot to return in the morning.