We stayed at Meaher State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A delightful state park with spacious sites and lots of wildlife. The I-10 freeway across the water isn’t ideal, but not too bad.

Dates:

• Check in: 2023-12-03
• Check out: 2023-12-17
• 14 nights

Weather:

• Partly cloudy, some rain
• High temps ranging between 57-72°F, lows around 39-59°F
• A little wind, gusts to 28 MPH

Noise:

• Freeway noise across the bay
• No train noise
• Negligible neighbor noise, other than kids on weekends

Site:

• #54, back in, asphalt
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
• Fairly level; used hydraulic leveling
• Asphalt driveway about 55 feet long by about 12 feet wide
• Grass between sites about 52 feet wide
• Picnic table on asphalt patio about 18 by 14 feet
• No fire pit
• Clean site
• Waterfront, though with the back of our coach facing the water

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 25 PSI water, conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 20 Mbps down, 4-9 Mbps up, 45 ms ping
• AT&T: 180-395 Mbps down, 4 Mbps up, 22 ms ping
• Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 9-12 Mbps up, 120 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpster
• Waterfront (bay)
• Walking paths

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Gorgeous sunsets, distant hum of I-10

This is a lovely state park along the Alabama Gulf Coast. Gorgeous views of the water, and various shorebirds. I-10 is visible, but the hum is distant and pretty much just background white noise. There are many nice walking trails in the park, including a boardwalk through the wetlands. Sites were large and nicely spread out. We’d definitely stay here again. We camped at Meaher State Park in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site, backing onto the water:

Utilities:

Shortly before we left, I got out my telescoping ladder to clear off a bunch of large pinecones that had fallen on our coach:

Not too bad, though (a rare look at our roof; I’ve still never been on it, and this was only the second time I’ve used the ladder to clear stuff off it):

Behind our site:

“Do not feed or harass the alligators” — we didn’t see any, but they’re probably all brumating by this time:

We were warned that there were invasive ants in the area, and advised to sprinkle borax around the coach (which we did). We saw some ants, but none near our coach:

Other sites:

Cabins:

Tents:

The entrance station:

Baby turtle crossing:

Fungus:

Bathrooms:

Other bathrooms:

Picnic shelter:

Boat ramp area:

Kayaks etc:

Boat ramps and dock:

Kayak dock:

There were lots of birds in the area:

Some bees:

A small beach, popular for fishing:

A nice delta boardwalk:

A fishing pier:

One evening I went for a walk to the fishing pier shortly before the sun set, and enjoyed watching the sunset and hundreds of birds:

Back to our coach:

Another day, another sunset behind our site:

A very nice state park. We’d definitely stay here again.