Best RV Parks & Resorts near Fairhope, AL

Several RV parks near Fairhope offer full hookup sites with varying amenities and access to Gulf Coast attractions. Magnolia Springs RV Hideaway provides big rig-friendly sites with 50-amp electric, water, and sewer hookups, operating year-round with limited shade. Island Retreat RV Park in Gulf Shores features 173 spacious sites with full hookups, picnic tables, and access to shower facilities. "The sites are plenty big for us with level pads," one camper shared about Island Retreat. "My kids loved jumping on our bikes to go mini-golf and explore the area." Bay Breeze RV on the Bay in Gulf Shores accommodates both RVs and glamping setups with water, electric, and sewer connections, while Magnolia Farms RV Park in Foley offers pull-through and back-in sites with picnic tables and pet-friendly policies.

Throughout the Gulf Shores and Foley area, concrete pads are common at premium RV resorts, while more economical parks typically feature gravel sites. Cell service varies significantly between parks, with stronger signals generally available closer to main roads. Most RV parks in the region remain open year-round, though winter brings lower rates and reduced crowds. Dump stations are available at nearly all parks, with many sites offering direct sewer connections. A visitor commented that "the waterlines are getting a bit brittle" at some older parks, suggesting careful hookup is advisable. Pet policies are generally accommodating, with several parks featuring dedicated dog areas. Proximity to beaches ranges from walking distance to 15-20 minute drives, with many parks offering convenient access to shopping, dining, and Gulf Coast attractions.

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Best RV Sites Near Fairhope, Alabama (122)

    1. Apalachee RV Campground - Blakeley State Park

    4 Reviews
    Spanish Fort, AL
    15 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 626-5581

    "The site had trees to hang my hammock, a fire ring, water, and a picnic table. You walk maybe 50ft from your parking spot to the site in the woods."

    "It is very close to Mobile, but also very secluded. There is alot of space between sites and lots to see and do within the campground also."

    2. Magnolia Springs RV Hideaway

    2 Reviews
    Magnolia Springs, AL
    11 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 965-6777

    "We have enjoyed the quiet, friendly campground.  The sites are a good size, the  campground is well-maintained, clubhouse clean, and laundry well-maintained. "

    3. Winner's Circle RV Resort

    1 Review
    Theodore, AL
    17 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 653-1034

    "Seems newer, close to town but not with all the noise, set far back from the road, clean, really nice pool, great amenities. Reasonably priced. We would visit again"

    4. SunChase RV Park

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    Magnolia Springs, AL
    12 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 600-9170

    5. Island Retreat RV Park

    13 Reviews
    Gulf Shores, AL
    20 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 967-1666

    $64 - $79 / night

    "A nice base camp to explore Gulf Shores that is located near one of the boat launches, the bike path, restaurants, and beaches."

    "Family-owned park about 10 minutes (+/-) from the closest beach. Amazingly clean restrooms with nice showers and full hook-ups."

    6. Bay Breeze RV on the Bay

    10 Reviews
    Gulf Shores, AL
    19 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 540-2362

    $59 - $76 / night

    "This was the closest thing I have found to a camping experience near the Gulf of America. Most RV parks in this region are sterile asphalt and concrete, but Bay Breeze is different."

    "It’s small but comfortable with up here and there beach and just a few minutes from golf Shores and all of it has to offer. Will be back again and again"

    7. Magnolia Farms RV Park

    2 Reviews
    Magnolia Springs, AL
    9 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 928-7335

    $40 / night

    "We are fairly new to the RV life - Andy tried to help us back in, and then decided he would just do it for us. He was so helpful. Everyone has been helpful."

    8. Ahoy RV Resort

    5 Reviews
    Foley, AL
    15 miles
    Website

    $55 - $69 / night

    "One more quick stay in Alabama and up north we head! Wish we would have had more time at this park, will have to come back with some of our grandchildren! This is a newer park at only 3 yrs old."

    "This is a nice RV Park with lots of ammenties, like shuffleboard, pickleball, basketball, social room, pool with cool slide and a dog park."

    9. Unhitched Foley

    3 Reviews
    Foley, AL
    12 miles
    Website
    +1 (251) 970-3773

    10. Wales West RV Resort & Light Railway

    1 Review
    Fairhope, AL
    5 miles
    Website
    +1 (888) 569-5337

    "We were workampers here two years ago, so this park is near and dear to our hearts. The sites are easy pull-throughs onto gravel, wide and roomy with picnic tables."

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RV Park Reviews near Fairhope, AL

659 Reviews of 122 Fairhope Campgrounds


  • Clay M.
    Aug. 4, 2020

    Sugar Sands RV Resort

    Our favorite Orange Beach campground

    Very clean. Spacious sites with level concrete pads. Full hook ups. Only 8-10 minutes to the beach.  Very clean bath houses. Easy to navigate campground road with tons of room to back into back-in sites. Pull throughs also easily assessible. Nice pool. Check in easy and quick. Employees very friendly. Will be back next month. Camp store on site. They also have a few rental tiny houses and rv's. Trash pickup at your site each morning. Cable TV and great WIFI.

    9/6/20 update: all things mostly the same, bath house closed from 8pm to 8am and WiFi not nearly as good as past visits.

  • Steve V.The Dyrt PRO User
    Dec. 31, 2018

    Military Park Pensacola Naval Air Station Oak Grove Park and Cottages

    Quiet

    RV sites are concrete pads with full hook up (power, water, sewer, WiFi, and cable). Most sites are a little closer together than we are used to. No fire rings at the RV sites. Tent sites do have fire rings, but no power or water. Bathhouse is large and very clean. Laundry facilities available. There is a community center building with TV, tables, and fire ring that hosted a dirty Santa and nightly BYOB happy hours while we were there, as well as a NYE Party planned. Staff and camp hosts are very friendly and helpful. Walking distance to the Pensacola Lighthouse and National Naval Aviation Museum. Dog friendly beach right at the campground. They do not allow swimming at this beach, but still fun for letting the dog run, fishing, and hanging out. Swimming beach and pool are located at other areas of the base. Reservations are site type, not site specific, but after talking with the staff they said they’d try to accommodate site requests the best they could when making reservation.

  • Cheryl H.
    Mar. 16, 2021

    Magnolia Farms RV Park

    Quiet, Friendly RV Park

    We are fairly new to the RV life - Andy tried to help us back in, and then decided he would just do it for us. He was so helpful. Everyone has been helpful. The laundry facility has an app that lets you know when your clothes are done, so you can walk back to your camper and wait instead of sitting with it. 3 or 4 activities are planned every month. There are some permanent residents, but enough transient to feel like you are with travelers. We chose it because it was close to our daughter, but would choose it again. Monthly rate is cheaper than daily rate. There is a fire pit for everyone to share, but no fire pits or grills for individual sites. Wooden decks for each site are nice. Grassy back in and some pull through- all level. Someone is always tending to the grounds and doing maintenance on the sites. We’ll be back!

  • j
    Apr. 8, 2021

    Gulf State Park Campground

    Beaches and bikes

    Gulf Shores Alabama Gulf State Park Current camping spot on the canal. Ours is a nice pull thru with electric and water. Almost 500 sites here from tent to big rig friendly. Spacious sites, some with foliage, some with Lake or canal views. Grills but no fire pits. Right now there's a shortage of usable bath houses because of hurricane damage repairs in progress. Good wifi, local TV, and cell service. Close to stores and dining. Free access to adjacent pier. Great coastal access. Free use of bikes. Lots of great paved and boardwalk trails. Gators, snakes, armadillos and birds reside here.

  • Joel R.The Dyrt PRO User
    Nov. 9, 2023

    Sun Outdoors Orange Beach

    Lots of concrete

    This is an all Inclusive RV Resort! Lots of spaces, but very few RVs when we were there. Sites are all concrete with easy access hookups. Not much shade. 2 pools, one adult only. Dog Park, laundry, tennis courts, gulf cart rental. They even have a business center. Walking trails connect to Gulf State Park. They do a lot of planned activities which can be annoying. Long term or short term sites available.

  • j
    Jan. 6, 2022

    Gulf State Park Campground

    Great State park on coast

    Gulf Shores Alabama Gulf State Park Current camping spot on the canal. Ours is a nice pull thru with electric and water. Almost 500 sites here from tent to big rig friendly. Spacious sites, some with foliage, some with Lake or canal views. Grills but no fire pits. There are a few community pits. Right now there's a shortage of usable bath houses because of hurricane damage repairs still in progress. Good local TV, and cell service. Close to stores and dining. Free access to adjacent pier. Great coastal access. Free use of bikes. Lots of great paved and boardwalk trails. Gators, snakes, armadillos and birds reside here.

  • MickandKarla W.The Dyrt PRO User
    Apr. 18, 2022

    Military Park Pensacola Naval Air Station Oak Grove Park and Cottages

    Our First FAMCAMP Stay

    To get to Oak Grove use the West Gate via Blue Angel PKWY. If you come in the main gate, and don’t thoroughly know your way through the base, you can easily end up at the old Seabees gate area where there are blockade weaves that are not RV friendly.
We checked in at the little campground(CG) office at the entrance then backed in to site 25 with FHUs. We couldn’t find the cable connection so checked with the office. The nice lady working the office came over and looked all around the utilities post where the newly run cable is supposed to reside. She finally found it out front by the cement pad. We ran the cable under the trailer and the very wide variety of channels worked fine. This is an older CG with lots of trees so satellite would be iffy. This CG has it own entrance to the beach that did not have a lot of people traffic during our 5 nights stay. There are a combination of back-in and pull through sites with 50& 30 AMP service. The sites tend to be fairly close to each other. Several reviews state spacious sites, but compared to campgrounds we’ve stayed in, only a handful of sites such as deluxe sites 46-51 come close to spacious. The water pressure was very good plus we got 4 bars on Verizon. A bonus is that the CG is close to the Naval Aviation Museum and flight line where the Blue Angels launch and practice. We went out to the beach where we could see the Blue Angels practice on Tuesdays& Wednesdays when they are in town. After the regular duty day and on weekends the park was quiet. There are multiple trails and areas to walk your dog or ride your bike.

  • Anthony C.
    Mar. 5, 2020

    Luxury RV Resort

    Great level spots

    The park great and very easy to get into (35’ 5th wheel). It was very full while we were there but the spots were set up to feel like you still had your own space from your neighbors. Room to park 2 cars. 2 separate spots to tie into the sewer which was nice. Level concrete pads with picnic tables. Hosts where very helpful. Walking distance to the beach and restaurants. Would stay again.

  • Aaron D.
    Jun. 23, 2024

    Gulf State Park Campground

    Great beach access with a ton of activities all around

    We stayed at spot 448. It was a pull through spot with a good amount of morning and late afternoon shade. Site was somewhat level, maybe about.75” lean on one side. Bathrooms were relatively close, but there was a lack of stalls for how many campsites there are. There is a lack of places to throw trash and the dumpsters are all the way back at the front of the park, it’s quite a drive. Not a lot of street lights throughout the campground made things nice and quiet at night. It was very nice that almost every spot had full hookups. The site had decent Verizon cell service, around 10-20 mbps. The Tmobile service was around the same. Service seemed to be better the closer to the main road you were in the park. The biking trails were amazing, very wide, with a good amount of shade. Lots of activities to do around the park besides the beach. You can walk or bike to the beach, although it's around 2 miles depending on where your spot is. Your parking pass for the campground also provides free parking at various beaches around the park. It’s only about a 15 minute drive to either gulf shores or orange beach for even more things to do. Overall the campground was clean, relatively quiet, right next to the beach, with a ton of activities. Negatives would be how expensive it is, lack of bathroom stalls, and since the park is so massive, it takes a while to get everywhere.


Guide to Fairhope

RV camping near Fairhope, Alabama, offers a delightful blend of natural beauty and modern amenities, making it an ideal getaway for outdoor enthusiasts. With a variety of parks to choose from, you can find the perfect spot to relax and enjoy the great outdoors.

Most parks have electrical and sewer hookups

  • Many RV parks in the area provide essential amenities like electric and sewer hookups, ensuring a comfortable stay. For instance, Island Retreat RV Park offers full hookups along with drinking water and sanitary dump facilities.
  • If you're looking for a well-maintained park with ample amenities, Luxury RV Resort features concrete pads and easy access to local attractions, making it a popular choice among campers.
  • Riverside RV Resort is another excellent option, providing concrete pads and full hookups, perfect for those who want a hassle-free camping experience.

Prices for RV Parks range from $35 to $66

  • Rates for RV parks in the Fairhope area can vary significantly, with some parks like Bay Palms RV Resort offering competitive pricing starting around $35 per night.
  • For a more upscale experience, Gulf Breeze RV Resort charges around $66 per night, providing a range of amenities and a convenient location near the beach.
  • Budget-conscious travelers can find options like All About Relaxing RV Park, where nightly rates are reasonable, making it a great choice for families.

Enjoy fishing and water activities nearby

  • Many parks are located near water bodies, perfect for fishing and other aquatic activities. For example, Fort Morgan RV Park is situated close to great fishing spots, making it a favorite among anglers.
  • If you're interested in kayaking or floating, The Retreat RV & Campground On Styx River offers direct access to the Styx River, providing a fun way to cool off during hot summer days.
  • For those who enjoy beach activities, Bay Breeze RV on the Bay is conveniently located near the bay, allowing for easy access to swimming and fishing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is the most popular RV campsite near Fairhope, AL?

According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular RV campground near Fairhope, AL is Apalachee RV Campground - Blakeley State Park with a 4-star rating from 4 reviews.

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