Best Tent Camping near New Iberia, LA

The coastal wetlands surrounding New Iberia, Louisiana offer limited but distinctive tent camping opportunities. Cypremort Point State Park Campground provides five tent-only sites situated on a man-made beach along Vermillion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 30 minutes south of New Iberia, this state park features walk-in tent sites with picnic tables and grills. Attakapas Wildlife Management Area, located northeast of New Iberia, offers primitive tent camping with basic amenities and requires permits obtained through the Louisiana WMA website.

Tent campsites at Cypremort Point State Park include cold outdoor showers, picnic tables, and grills for each site. The park maintains toilets and trash collection, with a recently completed boardwalk and picnic pavilion enhancing the facilities. Campers should note that vehicle parking is separate from the tent sites, requiring gear to be carried in. At Attakapas WMA, the primitive tent camping experience includes picnic tables and basic toilet facilities near a boating launch. A permit and sign-in/out procedure is mandatory for all backcountry tent camping in this wildlife management area. Water sources at both locations can be unreliable, so tent campers should bring adequate supplies.

In the off-season, Cypremort Point offers particularly quiet tent camping experiences. One camper noted, "Very quiet in off season with a locked gate that feels safe." The tent sites provide good birding opportunities along the Gulf Coast. At Attakapas WMA, tent campers report beautiful sunset views over the fields and a peaceful atmosphere. According to reviews, "The site has plenty of room for tents about 2 miles from town, with decent service." Winter visitors to Attakapas found the area "beautiful, clean, and quiet," though they cautioned that "the water is questionable, bring your own." Both locations offer tent-only camping options that serve as convenient bases for exploring the unique coastal ecosystems of southern Louisiana.

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Best Tent Sites Near New Iberia, Louisiana (2)

    1. Cypremort Point State Park Campground

    6 Reviews
    Avery Island, LA
    19 miles
    Website
    +1 (337) 867-4510

    $27 / night

    "This campground is a Louisiana State Park located on Vermillion Bay In the Gulf of Mexico.

    THERE ARE ONLY CABINS TO RENT, NO TENT OR RV CAMPING!

    This park was very nice but small."

    "NO shade at the campground.  There is a beach for the kids.  Great speck kayak fishing in the fall.  Nice place overall.  Didn't visit the bath house, full hookups at the RV sites. "

    2. Attakapas Wildlife Management Area

    2 Reviews
    Franklin, LA
    24 miles
    Website

    "Permit and sign-in/out required on Louisiana WMA website. Close to a boating launch that has a bathroom and water. The site has 3 picnic tables with plenty of room for tents or rvs."

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Tent Camping Reviews near New Iberia, LA

154 Reviews of 2 New Iberia Campgrounds


  • Mike V.
    Jun. 29, 2016

    Lake Fausse Pointe State Park Campground

    CCU#4, unimproved canoe campsite #4, at Lake Fausse Point State Park, Louisiana

    Nice primitive campsite on an island that you get to by boat (motor boat/canoe/kayak). Site is also known as Highland Waters campsite. Nice big flat area under trees including large live oaks to set up your tents or hammocks under. Has a fire ring, but no toilets, no water, no electrical. Does have a covered wooden table to serve as a rough kitchen kiosk. Wooden dock by waters edge also has a picnic table. Must call the state park to reserve this site.

  • Susan A.
    Aug. 31, 2021

    Chases RV Park

    NEVER again!

    My husband works out of town and we rented a 30 amp slot at Chase's RV/Weeks Island Rd RV for 1 month starting on 7/15/21. From the start, we had a problem with not being able to have enough power to run our hot water heater, or AC and lights were constantly dimming and outside breaker was tripping. When we spoke to the owner about the situation, he tried to say there was a problem with our RV, but by his own admission stated that they had had 2 different RVs"burn down" in the park. After a week in a half, we moved to another park and to no surprise, have had no electrical issues what so ever at the new park. Although the owner is nice enough, the manager of the property can be rude and obnoxious. When we spoke to the owner about the electrical issue and notified him that the problems resolved when we moved to another park and that the electrical issue is obviously with his park, he declined to refund any of the rental fees. If you value your safety and property, Absolutely no amenities.  Pool has been dug up, no wifi, no cable, and by managements own admission, the laudry and bath house stay locked because a park resident has bedbugs.  Stay far away from this park.

  • Kelly E.
    Mar. 22, 2022

    Cypremort Point State Park Campground

    March 2022

    Five tenting Only sites. NO RV sites at this time. Cold outdoor showers available Tent sites are on a man made beach. Picnic table and grill for each site. New board walk almost complete. Picnic pavilion. No senior or other discounts for tent sites. In the off season you will not find anything open. Bring all that you’ll need. Feel it’s a little expensive compared to campgrounds with many more amenities, nicer bathrooms and hot showers. Birding is good. VERY quiet in off season. Locked gate and feels safe.

  • B
    Oct. 12, 2021

    Sherburne WMA

    Free Camping and Shooting Range!

    Arrived late at night to a near empty but well maintained camping area. Vault toilets and no hookups but otherwise a nice place to spend the night. The shooting range appears to open right at 8am so be prepared to be woken up in most American way possible lol. Bring bug spray!

  • D
    Dec. 11, 2021

    Poche's RV Park & Fish-N-Camp

    Nice RV park. Convenient for canoeing in Bayou Teche.

    Poches RV park is nice, well maintained, and has number of amenities. We had a wonderful weekend stay, and the weather was perfect. We canoed in the Shake Your Trail Feather festival on Bayou Teche. The RV park was close the the canoe trailhead. Take the time to explore the city of Breaux Bridge. 

    Go to Poches Market and buy some pork sausage stuffed with jalapeos. Also, be sure to make a reservation and go eat at Little Big Cup in Arnaudville about 15 minutes away. 

    Stayed in campsite#69. Back-in site with concrete parking, picnic table, and fire ring. 15A/30A/50A, water, and sewer hookups. It has a nice grass area with fire pit in the rear of the site next to the lake. Not much shade in the campsite. The site is located on the lake. Neighbors were pretty close. Roads in the park were asphalt or gravel. The free WiFi throughout the park was adequate for checking emails, surfing the web, etc. We camped in a Travel Trailer. Would stay here again. We camped at Poche's RV Park in a Travel Trailer.

  • Tyler H.
    Sep. 9, 2022

    Palmetto Island State Park Campground

    Clean and Quiet

    Has spaced out sites and 4 backpack tent sites. A few walking trails. Saw alligators, jumping fish, deer, opossums and all kinds if wildlife.

  • Laura M.The Dyrt PRO User
    Mar. 6, 2022

    Lake End Park Campground & Marina

    Good For An Overnight

    Large campground and park that has RV areas and tent camping areas as well. There are a few loops in this campground. Some are paved; the further loop where we stayed is not. Our site was right on the water where were could see pelicans diving for fish and other water birds as well. 

    If you are looking for privacy this is NOT your place. Sites are very close together and we had to make sure our slide did not hit the neighbor's truck side mirror! Also not very quiet. If you don't hear boats roaming around then you can hear children playing in the multiple playgrounds or the neighbor's music playing or overall road noise. It is a good place if you just need a night or if you fish or have a boat I suppose. 

    Bathrooms/showers are not very convenient and are not very nice.  The shower was full of bugs (dead and alive) and though free you had to consistently keep pushing the "on" button to turn the water on for 30 second intervals.  Also, you have no choice as far as water temperature. It wasn't too cold or too hot but if you want hotter in the winter or cooler water in the summer, you don't get that option. There was also only one hook for belongings and the door wasn't secure.

    There is a laundry room but it was so far from us (in the other camping loop) that we did not go to it even though we picked this place so we could take showers and do laundry.

    This campground is convenient and cheap and close to town and the highway but I don't think I would stay here again unless I was desperate. It is nice and well maintained and clean but the closeness of people and the distance to amenities is a no go.

    There is trash (no recycling) as well as the aforementioned showers, bathrooms and laundry. There is also a beach area, playgrounds  and boating/fishing. There is a fire pit, picnic table and full hook ups at each site for the RVs.

    The website is weird because the "off" and "busy" seasons seem opposite and from other reviews they had disputes over the cost, so we weren't sure what to expect, but we paid $20 online for a Monday night and the nice office ladies didn't say anything when we were checking in.

  • Tom C.
    Dec. 23, 2018

    Lake Fausse Pointe State Park Campground

    Wet

    First of all, if your rig is over 10’ tall, don’t come in through Butte LaRose, there’s a bridge you won’t get across! Come in through Henderson. That being said, I wasn’t impressed. We were under the mistaken impression that they honored the Nat’l park pass and gave you 1/2 off the price. We paid a total of $36 which included the $6 online reservation fee even though we did not reserve online. We’ve never been charged this fee in any other park as a “walk in”. The men’s bathroom and shower was closed but they had a portable one set up with one shower which was in the handicapped toilet stall and only one other toilet stall and one urinal. Needless to say, you hand to wait in line even though there were only about 10 other campers there. This is a poorly maintained campground with huge potholes in the road going in and standing water everywhere. If Louisiana is going to charge me a reservation fee for a walk-in, I’ll stay in another state. The sites on the water are $42 and there is no cell service anywhere in the park. Supposedly there is wi-fi in some areas but they couldn’t tell me where that was and I never found it.

  • M
    Jul. 27, 2023

    Lake End Park Campground & Marina

    Very nice camping area

    I think this is a very nice camping area for both RV’s and tent camping, but it does have some minor drawbacks. There is a protected area on the lake within the park that you can launch your boat and they do have two restrooms with showers as well as washers and dryer’s to clean your clothes. Bathrooms in nearly every camping area across the country I’ve been to aren’t exactly up to home standards, but it is functional. The people working at the park have always been friendly and helpful. I like to tent camp and even the tent campsites have electrical hook ups. The truly bizarre thing about that is we are located in South Louisiana where the temperatures are absolutely brutally hot and majority of the year and yet they have a rule that clearly states you cannot have an air conditioner in your tent. And luckily, I didn’t see that the first four or five times I stayed there and no one said a word. Why in the world could you not hook up a portable AC unit in your tent considering electrical hook ups are provided and AC units make nearly no noise? Speaking of noise, the park is located in just inside a 90° curve in the highway with two sets of rumble strips in each direction. Being located practically within the city limits of Morgan city, or noise from traffic and the rumble strips doesn’t quiet down until well after midnight and picks back up again in full force around 5 AM. I couple that with the majority of the people here wanting their trucks to make the most noise possible, it’s a bit distracting and makes sleep difficult. Like all camping areas, people are going to listen to all manners and types of music but that quiet down significantly after 10 PM. my last trip about a week ago I noticed that my particular campsite was covered in fire ants that would start to build colonies within all your camping equipment left on the ground outside and they also built a major ant city underneath our tent that wasn’t an issue until I was breaking down the camp and the ants decided to scatter all over the tent inside and out.  the fishing is fantastic down here and the wildlife is incredible. You will see alligators of course along with rabbits, black squirrels, osprey bald eagles as well as seagulls and pelicans given our close proximity to the gulf coast. The office has people working in it every day of the week and and there is a Coke machine at the office and they do sell 8 pound bags of ice for $2. Overall, I really like camping here and then will continue to do so as long as no one says anything about having an AC unit in my tent as I would not consider staying in a tent in South Louisiana without one. 


Guide to New Iberia

Tent camping near New Iberia, Louisiana offers a blend of natural beauty and outdoor activities, making it an appealing choice for nature enthusiasts.

Tent campers appreciate these amenities

  • At Cypremort Point State Park Campground, you'll find well-maintained sites with picnic tables, grills, and access to clean drinking water, perfect for a comfortable camping experience.

Local activities to enjoy

  • The Attakapas Wildlife Management Area is ideal for those looking to immerse themselves in nature, offering beautiful sunsets and proximity to a boating launch for fishing and exploring.

Some prices for tent camping range from $10 to $25

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is the most popular tent campsite near New Iberia, LA?

According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular tent campground near New Iberia, LA is Cypremort Point State Park Campground with a 3.5-star rating from 6 reviews.