A Snowbird’s Review of Georgia’s Fort McAllister Campground & State Park
- Susan O'Hanlon
- Apr 12
- 5 min read
Rig: 2018 Vista 31BHE Class A Motorhome, No Additional Vehicle
Site: 48 (W/E) - Utilities Placement & Location: Good / Power: Clean (Dump Available)
Check-in: 1PM / Check-out: 12PM
Our T-Mobile Hotspot was sufficient for internet connectivity and streaming with our WeBoost antenna system; Cell Service on Verizon was 1-2 bars without the booster.
Nightly Rate (March/April, 2025): $31.10/night (includes Senior Discount, taxes and fees)
Our review of Fort McAllister State Park & Campground in Georgia is based on our stay here in late March and early April, 2025. We are snowbirds who live full-time in our RV on a part-time basis, and what we look for in a park may be different from what you enjoy. Read all about our stay and see photos of the wildlife, scenery and facilities (including bathrooms) below. We hope this post will help you to decide if Fort McAllister Campground & State Park is right for the way you love to experience camping. Safe travels, and see you on the road!
THE PARK: Campers and visitors alike enter the park under a canopy of Spanish-moss covered trees that is breathtakingly beautiful! RV parking is to the right for check-in at the well-appointed office, and staff are very welcoming and friendly. This is where you can rent bicycles, learn about programming for the week, get your tickets to the museum and more. Note that Fort McAllister’s Campground no longer rents kayaks.
You’ll find the day use area, hiking trails, an outdoor gym (a Georgia standard), playground, pavilions and more at this front section of the park. Beautiful scenery overlooks the salt marsh. History buffs will enjoy touring Fort McAllister, a civil war era military installation. There are both indoor and outdoor exhibits (both are dog friendly), and a separate entrance fee is required for the self-guided museum tour.
CAMPGROUND: After checking in, you’ll enter Fort McAllister Campground road via a gate and travel about 3/4 of a mile through the salt marsh to the campground. Interior roads in the campground are a bit tight, with some trees pretty close to the road. Slow going is a must!
There is a boat ramp in the campground as well as a one-mile(ish) hiking trail. The front of the campground is primarily used by RVers, with two roads for tents in the back of the park.
Many sites at Fort McAllister were pull-through spots off of these tight interior roads, which made navigating into them easy. Note that the front door of your unit will face the road on pull-through sites on the left, while your front door will face away from the road if you enter your site on the right side of your vehicle. Sites were spacious and hook-ups were well placed. The site surface was coarse sand, and our site (as well as many others) retained water for several hours after heavy rain.
The campground is well removed from nearby civilization, so it was quiet and peaceful during our stay with zero noise intrusion, except for the occasional helicopter.
Our host (Jan) checked in on us shortly after our arrival (at 4PM) and offered to bring firewood to our site. The roads within the campground are a bit rough, with potholes that can be masked by puddles (so be cautious).
For McAllister Campground’s single dump facility is located near the exit, where a line can form blocking the exit at peak times during the check-out window.
Wildlife is abundant! Deer, raccoons and armadillos are common throughout the campground, and have very little fear of humans or their dogs.
Two bath house facilities serve the entire campground. Even on weekends, I never found them overly crowded (although I did find them less than clean). The facility toward the front of the campground seems a bit more modern; there are men’s and women’s rooms that each have shower stalls as well as bathroom stalls. Toward the tent area, the second bathroom facility has four individual, unisex shower/toilet combinations. Bathroom cleanliness and supplies fluctuated throughout our stay based on which hosts were on duty. When Jan was on duty, the bathrooms were spotless!
Fort McAllister Campground offers laundry facilities at each bath house that were recently switched to an outside vendor for management; washers were $3.25-3.75 (depending on the cycle selected) and dryers were $3.25. Quarters can be purchased at the office near the entrance.
The salt marsh is gorgeous, and can be seen from several locations throughout the campground. I enjoyed walking down to the boat dock area in the evening to watch the sun paint the sky. If you wander down this way during high tide, you might see alligators, dolphins, or sharks. At low tide, I saw an eagle on two occasions, egrets and a variety of other birds.
Aside from sporadic issues with cleanliness and supplies availability in the rest rooms, the only other problem we encountered while at Fort McAllister were from proliferation of no see-ums (small, gnat-like biting insects) that had just emerged for the season. They made enjoying the outdoors during peak hours of the day miserable. It seems as though a personal fan or a large household fan in the sight is an excellent way to keep them at bay, as are long pants / sleeves. Avoid stirring up the ground as that’s where they live (lesson learned after hubby did a little work under the unit).
OUR SUMMARY & RATING
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️1/4 ⭐️
We generally love Georgia state parks and campgrounds, and we found that Fort McAllister had a alot to offer. We would return again in a season when no see-ums weren’t so intense. We feel like there’s still more for us to see and enjoy there, but we were unable to do so due to hubby’s apparently high sensitivity to these pesky insects. The campground itself is beautiful, the staff friendly (especially Host Jan), and we loved being among all the wildlife. It was serenely peaceful, too, which is something we love in a campground. For this review, we deducted points for the condition of the campground roads and the fluctuating level of cleanliness / supplies in the bath house facility. We found the campsites at Fort McAllister State Park to be spacious, although we feel like they could have been staggered a bit more on either side of the road to provide more of an illusion of privacy. Overall, we love the campground and look forward to returning during a season when we can explore more, tour the museum and sit quietly to watch the sunset on the swings by the boat ramp.
We are active snowbirds, and we review and rate campgrounds based on our preferences, which may be different from yours. At present, we travel without a tow vehicle, so our time is spent exclusively in the campground. We also travel with two dogs who don’t always get along (sigh…), so we enjoy campgrounds with trails where we can exercise the pups and tucker them out. Read more of our campground reviews and follow our full-time (part-time) RV journey on our blog, or follow Susan on social @SusanOHanlonPottery.
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