This city campground is staffed with friendly and personable folks who seem to love there jobs and this park.

Most camp sites are located along a busy channel across which is a Navy shipyard so you see military and freight watercraft coming and going. In addition, military helicopters fly fairly low overhead well into the night. I love all things aviation including the fighter jets that also made appearances two of the days I stayed here, your experience may differ. As campgrounds go, the amount of noise from these machines is somewhat unusual.

The beach is long, beautiful and the dunes are populated by an assortment of sea birds, herons, pelicans, terns and gulls among others. They put on quite a show.

The lettered sites are a 5-8 minute walk from the bathrooms and showers which are clean and well lit. The numbered sites are clustered closer to the bathrooms with a more undisturbed view of the bay and dunes. Sites 23-26 have the best views. All sites have fire rings with cooking grills (nice!) Picnic tables and electrical power. Many sites are not level.

There's a surprisingly well-stocked nature center with interesting exhibits for all ages. Definitely worth spending time in.

A multi use trail links the park to Amelia Island making it possible to hoof or bike there and leave your rig at the site. I'm told it's a 10 mile trip.

Definitely worth a stay if you like your nature delivered with a heaping dose of military industrial sights and sounds.