Port Aransas Free Dispersed Camping – Texas
Port Aransas – If you want to camp for free or cheap on the beach GO TO TEXAS! There’s free/cheap beach camping along the entire coast. We stayed on the beach at Port Aransas, which is right by Corpus Christi. There’s 6 or more miles of beach available for you to camp on. For the first few days, we stayed further north on a sand ‘road’ on the beach. The last few days, we pulled out onto the beach itself, which was still incredibly packed down. We never had to use 4WD, and our parents were fine in their van. The weather was very mild (yes, there was some wind, and it was cooler since it was January, but nights typically stayed in the 50s or upper 40s and most days were in the upper 50s or 60s), the sand was hard packed, the beach was enormous, and there were port-a-potties and trash bins everywhere. We could walk to bars and restaurants from our spot, and played sunset bocce ball every night. Regarding price, if you follow the link above, you’ll see that there’s a free camping area really far down the beach (between markers 52 and 58). If you stay anywhere other than between those markers, you need to purchase a permit for $12, which is valid for an entire year.
