A Gulf Shores beach week turns on the short trip back from the sand. Mid-afternoon, with salt still in everyone's hair, the family comes back in under the palmettos at the resort, and the kids who were in the surf an hour earlier are in the pool before the beach bag is unpacked. The splash pad stays loud until somebody lights the grill. The motorhome sits level on its concrete pad through all of it, awning out and the air running, ready for whoever comes in sunburned first.
The beach is a short drive from the private resorts, and what the drive buys is the pool, the bath houses, and a pad that stays put all week. When the family wants a fishing pier and a sunset over the water instead, the bay side of the Fort Morgan Peninsula is the change of scene west of town.
Sugar Sands and Gulf Shores RV Resort for the beach week
Sugar Sands leans into the kids, with a splash pad as well as the pool, and level concrete pads in pull-through and back-in versions, each with 30 and 50-amp power and sewer. The beaches are about 5 miles away. Gulf Shores RV Resort, an RVC Outdoors park, adds a hot tub to the pool and offers waterfront sites, with full 30 and 50-amp hookups on level concrete pads and the public beach 7.2 miles off.
If you're renting a towable, some listing owners deliver it and set it up on your reserved pad. That's offered listing by listing, and the resort site is still yours to book.
Gulf State Park is the state's alternative to the private resorts, with an RV Resort of 104 full-hookup concrete pads and a big campground of long pull-throughs about 1.5 miles from the beach. The Orange Beach campervan page covers the park itself. Bring bikes either way, because the park's Backcountry Trail is flat and paved, good for an easy morning ride with stops for the birds, and the RV Resort's pads connect straight onto it.
Summer heat makes the 50-amp pads earn their keep, and spring break fills them before summer starts. The National Shrimp Festival takes over a weekend in October, and festival-goers and beach-week families want the same rigs and the same resort pads, so a trip on those dates needs both booked well ahead. From January to March the snowbirds arrive for the season, and a family winter week shares the resorts with them. Whatever the month, book the pad first and choose the motorhome to fit it.
Fort Morgan Peninsula and Bay Breeze on Bon Secour Bay
Out on the Fort Morgan Peninsula, the evening faces the bay. Bay Breeze RV on the Bay looks across Bon Secour Bay to the Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge, with a natural beach, a 150-foot fishing pier, and sunsets over the water that bring everyone out to the end of the boards. It's a slower week than the resorts in town, built around a line in the water and the light going orange over the refuge.
With 25 full-hookup RV sites, Bay Breeze is small, and those pads are the first thing to reserve for a week out here. The scenic drive west runs through the refuge and past Fort Morgan to the Dauphin Island ferry, and the Dauphin Island RV page covers taking a rig across. For two people working the peninsula and the ferry crossing, the Alabama campervan page has smaller rigs that suit the trip.