We just returned from spending the weekend here in our popup. Lovely campground and park. Bathrooms were clean and our site was large and level.

I have been on these trails since 1975. We actuly made the hiking trails on horse back. I feel the price to enter or for a annual membership is a bit high. I dont mind paying something but that much is actuly too much. The camping area looks more like squatters in some spots. The park does not offer a lot is amenities it justify the steep fee. But I enjoy that it is more of a wilderness atmosphere.

Great price. Definitely feel you are in the woods camping. The womens bathroom, according to my wife, could use an update and cleaning so 3 stars.

This has always been a place i loved to go. The state abandoned it and let me tell you. The city of Gautier has picked up the ball and ran it in and made a 2 point conversion. Its better than ever. Go there! Great People!

A great place to stay off the beaten path. Surprisingly large sites. Didnt visit the bath house, but the park is very clean and well kept. We broke down here and the staff helped us in many different ways. JJ, the grounds manager, stopped to check on us daily. A must visit spot not far from Ocean Springs.

Pretty and quiet walk to the bath house- very nice bath house. Vending machine $2 drinks for that late night thirst. Boat launch needs some dock repair for safety, but it’s a pretty place with archery ranges and a new trading post we’ve yet to visit. Signs do say ice and gas. $18/rv night with 50 amp

Really great campground we stayed for a week in primitive spots had a great time some good places to hang a hammock and relax

Beautiful Park ! 🏞️ They recently added a wonderful welcome center with general store (made out of an old log cabin) and a walking pier over the marsh. The park is well maintained and peaceful. Enjoy hiking, disk golf, bring your dog to the dog park or enjoy camping. They have an archery range, playground and picnic pavilions, also.

Love this park. It is very nice and has great amenities. We stayed a total of three nights on our way to and from New Orleans.There is a kayak launch in the park and you can paddle to Hucks bar and grill just up the river.The park is nice and quiet.

Love this park. Our first time camping here and its been great. The campsites are spacious and the park, so far has not been overly busy. The mens restroom/ shower house is awesome and new! The only way the park could be any better is if it had sewer hookup at the campsites. The new showers could also use some traction stickers on the floor as they are a bit slippery when showering.

No one in gate to answer questions. I drove though I looked beautiful.

In May, 2020, My husband and I traveled from Wisconsin to Mississippi on our first RV trip and chose Shepard State Park for its location and our preference for a close-to-nature environment. We stayed in the RV campground.Very friendly staff. Showers had nice tiled stalls, warm water was abundant. Bathroom was clean and always had TP and paper towels available.Cool archery lanes, two disk golf courses, a great playground for the kids in the festival area.Really awesome bridge over saltwater marsh.Lots of hiking trails for all levels of hiking experience.We loved it!

Beautiful park, stayed a week. Huge, very clean bathhouse. Lots of nature. Beautiful old log cabin serves as the office, and store. Sells local wares, pottery, dish towels, etc. We took our dog, she liked it too. The people are nice. We will be back, nice experience!

Wonderful stay in this beautiful local park. The staff took great care of us for three weeks. We are full-time RVrs with years of camping/RV experience. Dixie handled our reservation most friendly and efficiently. In particular, the Park Ranger, J.J. was immediately accommodating and more than willing to go above and beyond to ensure patrons were content, secure, and comfortable during their visit. Keep him happy Gautier, he is a most dedicated employee! Thank you Shepard State Park!

Excellent park the facilities are good condition and my site had a lot of shadow.

Ive only visited my parents while they have stayed here twice now, but very nice park. My parents travel in their RV full time and love this park. Very peaceful.

This park is such a little gem nestled up near the coastline. wooded and secluded camper sites, lots of walking trails, and amazing new bridge out over the picturesque marsh. we really enjoyed our 8 day stay. bathrooms were decent, as of march 2021 men’s had been totally renovated while women’s had not (outdated but perfectly functional). disc golf course is great, heavily wooded in areas and if there’s been any rain you will encounter mud and standing water. but wear some good boots and go anyway, it’s a really fun course. and best feature of all — the dozen or so archery lanes. really loved being able to bring our bows down and do some target practice.gautier isn’t a great town, but oceans springs is super quaint, great restaurants and pubs, and down the street from good beaches. only about a 25 min drive from the campsite.

Camped here for 2 nights. Beautiful campsites, spaced well apart, with tons of shade. Clean restrooms and showers. We are from out of state (Ohio) and have camped all over the USA and Canada. This rates in the top 5.

Great park for a short visit. Lots to do in surrounding area.

I booked this place solely from the google reviews. It might of been all that it said it was many years ago. The whole place needs a good shake up. Pulled into our site (the only good thing about it that it was not under water some had 3 inches of standing water in them) however the amount if trash strewn about was off-putting. The female restroom was down right repulsive. Rotting doors; that did not lock, more rust than metal you get the idea. We were excited because the website talked of footpaths, they might of been there but so badly overgrown Im not sure youd come out alive. In short we were booked for 4 nights, hitched up and pulled out after 1! Oh and I hope you like the sound of trains, they are close enough to rattle my trailer.

Wow. This state park had so much to offer. I went camping for two days here. There were times where the biting gnats were horrible, but it only seemed to be right before sunset and then they were gone. Nice campground. Site 12 seems to be the prime spot with a nice view of the water. So many trails! You will get lost. New boardwalk. Disc golf that you will likely walk several miles to complete it. About 30 archery targets. Great park. The only downside was the trash! There was so much trash on the trails near the water and in the water at the boardwalk.

Nice place to kayak. Bring plenty of bug spray.

The park is beautiful, azaleas were in full bloom. Camping area fairly old and well used, needs some updating, the camp site are mostly dirt and and unlevel but manageable. I pickup up a bag litter around my campsite. But my biggest disappointment was the new trail over the marsh, just completed, Beautiful walk but the contractor did not pickup his mess, that are laying in the marsh, cut boards laying around and other trash from them. If the job is complete I hope the state/park did not signed off the job until his mess is picked up. Also just old litter in the marsh need to be cleaned up.

This place is great! Dixie in the office is super nice and helpful and ranger JJ who lives on site is awesome, as well. Im a full-time boondocker and I had a great time here waiting out some weather. Ive been traveling the southern coast and Mississippi is be far my favorite so far. Great park with plenty of privacy and a cool boardwalk to view the gators. Highly recommend!

I am a Disaster Relief worker and just need a quiet place for 24 hours. It is clean and quiet. Cooked me up a meal and got my thoughts together. Beats the MREs FEMA gave me !!The spaces have fire pits, grills, picnic tables and water/electric if you need it. Showers as well.

Campsite 001 of RV Park Lamotte Bayou CampgroundPro: Much more secluded than the other sites.Con: Long trek to the bathroom, street light shines directly into camp, the nearby campground managers dogs bark all night long.The mens bathroom was recently redone and its very nice, I think they clean it weekly or more often. There is only one stall and thus only one TP holder, I recommend bringing your own as backup.The archery option is very nice and the disc golf course is solid as well. Some of the trails are missing signs at intersections, bring a map with you.

What a beautiful park with a ton of activities available. The RV campground was big enough for my 37’ 5th wheel. Spaces are gravel and fairly level. The park offers a 18 hole frisbee golf course, 14 station archery course, boat launch, fishing. The have a brand new elevated board walk through the salt marsh. Looking forward to my next visit

I love the tent only area and the boardwalk through the marsh. They also have nice trail system for hiking.

Very cheap and very good, mobile data doesnt work to great and there isnt much service out there though

Nice place, the facilities are clean and the price is great.

Small park, very quiet. In the middle of no where. Was a stop over traveling thru. Nice big shaded camp sites. Staff was friendly. Mens bathroom n showers have been remodeled, womens is run down.

Its nice park very peaceful place

This is a nice 28 site county ran Campground. There seems to be a lot of permanent campers here. This is a dog friendly Campground, I know all are but people walk their dogs off leash alot here. So beware. There are alot of ticks so check your pup and yourself after a walk. If you check in after 5pm you can find your pass in the box. No ranger on site but at the Office there was a nice lady. Shower/bathrooms were slightly dated but very clean. My issue was in the morning after the bathhouse was cleaned, whoever didnt rinse or wipe off the beach they used. My pants fell off the hook and were completely ruined. So if Environmental Services reads this please rinse the bleach after using it. We would stay here again for sure.

Great quiet place. Enjoyed the primitive camping very much.

Fabulous place. We are staying two extra days. Dixie, in the office is certainly a keeper as a employee and a delight to talk too. Thanks

We really enjoyed the trail over the water.Only reason I didnt give park 5 ⭐ s because the disc course was overgrown & muddy & we were still charged 💲💸for using it. Lastly, a majority of trails were too soggy/wet/muddy that we werent able to hike them & office didnt bother to tell us this. We are from Miami.

Great park for kids to play and to fish!! The staff are the nicest people Ive ever met!!

Quiet, shady place to stay, but I didnt notice there are NO sewer hookups. You have to got to the dump station. I used the bath house for showering during my stay. I was in #7 which was level enough for my 14ft trailer and its a back-in, not a drive-in.

This is truly a great place to spend a couple nights clean quiet and friendly

Big size lots for your rv, quite , nice walking trails. Mostly shaded sites ,friendly workers, loved the area.will come again

This is my favorite spot to stop at. A jewel.

The park was clean and nice. Employees and guests were friendly and helpful. Great value for the price. Bathrooms were clean. We stayed on site 09 w/ our ‘34 ft. trailer, plenty of space. Close to Ocean Springs, Biloxi, and Dauphin Island, AL.

Amazing boardwalk. Dogs loved the bark park. We were at spot 16 in the campground and it was absolutely perfect. One of our new favorite parks for a cheap quite getaway

My kids and I loved the park, we stopped in after a road trip to look around, rest and it is lovely. It is so peaceful. Are yall building a new boardwalk? My kids are excited about coming back to use the archery trail. We thought the campsites were charming, and the trails are good. Were coming back when the weather cools down a little more.

Good night sleep...well cared park....18$ full hookup

We didnt stay here, but it was a nice, woodsy place.

Excellent! Staff could not be friendlier and the cleanest bathrooms Ive ever seen in a campground. Trails are equally kept up.

Very nice and affordable stay. Come prepared for insects though.

Great place to go if you just need to get away and find some peace. $4 day pass per vechicle is extremely affordable

Great hiking place with our dogs. Could use more trail signs but the new bridge is great.

Great place to camp. They still have primitive camping as well as RV sites and tent sites with electricity and water for those with children. Very nice people.

Nice walking trails. Good access to restrooms, playground.

I am familiar with the park then going for years but never checked out the camping I went today to look for a future spot for tent camping and it was absolutely beautiful very shaded and enough space in the RV area for tents. I love the whole look of the space provided. Not commercialized at all. It keeps the integrity of nature intact around you

Good size lots with decent amount of privacy. Sites could use some leveling. Price is reasonable, lady at checkin was friendly, would stay again.

A hidden gem with just 28 sites with only E/W (though the host site has sewer). Park is off the beaten path, but it has a lot going for it. Lots of opportunity for trail walking. Wildlife does walk through your camp sites at night. Park was in the process of finishing a very nice elevated walkway through the marsh. No fire ring, but most sites we saw had a circle of stones. Sites were large and well-spaced with lots of shade. Given the proximity to water, you may have to fight off the flying no-seeums in the summer, but we didnt have an issue. While the park is wooded, the electrical box at each site as a light and there are light poles spaced throughout along the road. Opportunities to restock are available out in town but not much in the way of tourist stuff. Most of the campers we saw were in town for the Mullet Festival. The roads can be tight, but we saw several large 5th wheelers as well as 30-plus foot self-drives. The address given on the website did not take us to the park, but to a spot about 1/4 mile away. There is a very nice wood Park Office at the entrance that probably houses a store, but everything was closed. A small gate office further in is where you check in. By all appearances, the park is working to get things back to normal. We camped at Shepard State Park in a Travel Trailer.

Great state park near the Gulf. Sites are big and fairly private. Bath house was very clean.

Awesome place! We ended up staying longer than we had planned even. Clean, nice sites, friendly staff.

Shepard State Park is a very affordable campground and there are reasons for this. The RV sites are woodsy an not too close together. The place is peaceful and mostly quiet, except when there is a passing freight train on a nearby major East/West rail line. The campground restrooms were clean-ish and not in the best condition, tolerable for the price. There was warm shower water but not hot! The disc golf course seems well laid out and there is an archery course, as well. The hiking trails could use some trimming up and more trail markers. There really are not a lot of other activities to be had here, other than rough rock/sand road bicycling. We did meet some new friends here, so that is a plus. The camp hosts and office person were helpful and friendly.

Wicked disc golf course watch for spiders and snakes

Fun! Close to casinos and there is an alligator pond down the street!

Compared to other state campgrounds, this one is smaller at 400 acres and 28 power/water hookup sites. But, it is very quiet with great, isolated sites around the outside and all sites a pretty easy walk to the centrally located restrooms/showers. Fire ring, grill and picnic table in each site. Perfect for getting away. There are also a good number of primitive sites with their own restrooms/showers. Definitely recommend.

My husband, 2 kids, father-in-law, and friend came to stay for 2 nights.This place is clean!! The bathroom and showers are awesome; air conditioned, clean, and has toilet paper!! Not crowded at all! Close to everything without feeling like im in the city.JJ is an excellent park ranger!! He cams out and fixed our electric box when we couldnt figure out how to work it. He has been very helpful and cheerful. A great source of information, and he caught a baby gator that was in the campground to relocate it safely.We are enjoying out camping trip and want to come back again.

Nice park very nice place and the people are very nice

What a lovely place to camp. So peaceful and beautiful. Our spot was spacious and felt secluded with all the greenery surrounding us. Everyone was super nice. Highly recommend and will return.

Very nice campsites. Seclusion👍 isolation👍 Quiet👍Mother nature is perfect in all her Beauty & Majesty...

Ok upkeep could be better but overall nice place to relax

Beautiful park! Host/Ranger was awesome, very welcoming. We got in late but they have an honor box at the gate. Well maintained spaces, trails, plenty of wildlife. Good stop!

Its about time for them to loosen up!!!!

Real friendly staff.

Lovely private campsites and lots of options for hiking.

Peaceful and sprawling; this park is exactly what someone like me is looking for. Im camping on a huge site, nestled in a wooded lot and surrounded by nature. The big comfort station is not too far away, and its old, but its clean. Exotic (to me) bird calls are intermittently scattered in different directions around me. I think I hear a hawk. Ive spent the morning spotting and taking pictures of plants ands trees to be identified. Light traffic noise in the distance is the only reminder of what lies outside of the park- Well, almost perfect anyway.

Booking online was easy and the park map was helpful because we got in late--to a nice site. Had a relatively quiet night (no ruckus from humans just lots of swamp life partying it up). Good quality hookups.

What a beautiful little gem.

Great place to walk enjoy nature great dog park really nice lady in front with lotsa information about the park, great picnic areas

This place is great. The campsites are very large and quiet. They have a playground, disc golf, boat launch and archery course. Its now run and maintained by the city which is so much better than the State crews. This is the hidden gem.

The sites are not very level and amenities are dated, but everything is clean and tidy. This is also a very quiet park and the cheapest we have stayed in for quite some time. Sites are well spaced and reasonably private.We enjoyed our time here very much.

Great park even though it is pretty small. Facilities are okay in terms of bath houses needing a little love. There is no interpretive center and really no interpretive exhibits to speak of. Someone in the administration invested heavily in an archery range and a nice disc golf course. There are primitive campgrounds with no bathroom facilities and an RV campgrounds that does have some facilities. There is also a small boat ramp appropriate for

Clean, well kept grounds and secluded camping areas.I particularly like the fenced in dog area, where I am able to let my dog run loose. And the archery targets are a nice addition, not far from the dog yard.

Reserved a RV spot and drove 3 hours to this place and someone was in our spot. No other spots available.

Great place to camp!

The price was right at $18 per night for camping but the park is very rustic. The campsites have a good distance between them but many of them are not very level. The bathrooms are in desperate need of repair. There are a lot of hiking trails but they dont really lead to any great vistas.

Wonderful disc golf park maintained by the city and South MS Disc Golf Organization. Primitive camping and RV sites are maintained. 2 sets of bathrooms- the RV site bathrooms are air conditioned. The primitive site bathrooms were recently vandalized but will be up and running again soon. Wonderful customer service and the new park ranger ROCKS!

We stayed here a couple nights on our way from Florida to Texas. The price is great, the sites were nice and large. We have a 36ft 5th wheel and had no problem. There was a nice dog park, disk golf and a really nice competition archery course. I would stay here again.

Very quiet and enjoyable campground and park. Like any other treed park be wary of ticks. My dogs got a few.

Took my puppy to the park for training. Shepards State Park was well clean, well maintained, and peaceful! I highly recommend this park

Great place

Awesome hidden gem... Scenic camping,hiking, and archery park situated amidst the bayous of Gautier ms. 395 acres dedicated to outdoor activity and family fun. Loved it !!!

Facilities are barely kept. No maps available for late (after 5pm) arrival. Roads are not clearly marked. And why would you put up Frisbee golf all around a primative camping area?

I enjoyed it very much. Two friends and I went tent camping for two days. The park is very beautiful to me; live oaks, wetlands, full of hiking trails. Had some pleasurable encounters with wildlife. Ill definately be back.Do bring a tent pad unless you are primitive camping as the sites are leveled with gravel so the RV campers wont get stuck.Lots to do and see and the park is near the ocean and close to Pascagoula, so you are only 5 or 10 minutes from restaurants, gas stations and grocery.

Great disc golf course. Sometimes I get a little spooked if out there too late because it is isolated but I take my own 911. Women should have a plan to protect themselves there.

Great place to play disc golf! Challenging with lots of variety. Friendly staff and the place is well taken care of.

The first time that my husband and I stayed here I would have given them a four out of five because the bathrooms were funky but this go around they were nice and clean! This is our second time staying here and we love it! It is far out but not to far and there is plenty to do at the park itself. Great frisbee golf course and our pups love the dog park area. Will definitely be coming again and again.

The Disc Golf Course is one of the best Ive ever been on! Quite challenging and very fun !!! Will definitely be recommending to all my friends !!!!

Beautiful campground. Quiet, peaceful and private campsites. Bathhouse needs updating which is on their agenda. Hot showers and clean.

A fun little park with easy shot walking trails. A great spot to camp if you just want a quick getaway

To be a state park I was excited to visit it. It had nature trails and picnic areas. A large bathhouse was on site but not crowded. Very attainable.

My wife and I planned a trip to the park for a chance to try out the new archery range. Unusual arrangement of targets with 28 lanes that are about 40 yards apart much like a bowling alley but the shots range from 15 to 80 yards. The lanes are separated by trees and thick ground cover with nice walkways, benches, and bow racks. Each bagged target has defined scoring rings and are securely mounted under a permanent awning. Although the cost was only 3 bucks, it appeared to have very little use. We went on a Saturday and had the range to ourselves. Try it out, you wont be disappointed!

Beware! People living in the park. Made a reservation online, drove through While in the area to check it out a week before we had reserved to stay. Individuals had several campers on center blocks, lots of trash, tarps on roofs. Air units hanging out of windows. These folks are camping right next to the bathrooms. I wanted to cancel because just wasn’t what we thought and I have children to consider who were uncomfortable when they too saw this. We are avid campers. Camp at many state parks all over the south. This place refused to give me my money back even after a call to the city. City parks and recreation was rude. And this was 1 week before our check in date. Would only give half of weekend in refund. Guess my donation to the state. Poor customer service. Shame on the city for allowing such a nice park to be ran this way. Shame on them for not doing a better job conducting business better. I will never return to Gautier. Wish I had pictures but it’s too far out there to go back for that.

I always love Shepard state park. Its relaxing, feels safe. Maintenanced trails makes it fun for a well shaded walk

Peaceful and room to move.. neighbors are 50 / 100 yards away.. and not expensive.. best one we liked so far.. (out of 10 other camp sites..)