Exploring Big Lagoon State Park! 🌊🚐 The Ultimate RV Adventure | Dude RV Traveling Road Show

welcome to dude RV hey I appreciate you stopping by and of course say it with me you got here just in time that's right just in time for another campground experiential video yesterday we were in Georgia now we're back in Florida as you saw up there we're at Big Lagoon State Park right outside of Pensacola we're almost in the almost Alabama it's the Gul Shores Gulf Shores National seashores not too far from here NAS Pensacola and all the associated Navy stuff is not too far from here but our Focus for today is Big Lagoon State Park and we are in site number what site number are we in we're in site number what seven I believe yeah site number site number seven so let's get into a site overview of site number seven we are Park Rangers driving by that's a good thing to see site number seven is a handicap site we're right across the road from the facilities that'll be coming up next we're a 30 amp in water on a concrete pad it's not quite as level as one would like it is it is spacious but we had to block up three blocks on the the passenger the patio side I'm not sure what the purpose of those are but we got them big columns we have a wooden steel frame picnic table a place to burn burn some charcoal and cook some hot dogs have a place to burn some wood down here in the bushes and I guess you could pitch a tent back here it's amazing the difference in terrain from last night's campsite to this night's campsite lots of scrub Oaks Live Oaks yon holes let's go check out the facilities the facilities are on a burm a storm surge protection thing but there's a wooden Boardwalk to get us up it's interesting how this is laid out so you get your sinks for washing your hands over there you have two shower stalls dark get hot cck all right and then you have a handicap this this is Dual Purpose so you have your toilet and the shower and it is just a shower wand all right so now now you know let's go find some more stuff there's actually a second Bath House shower house second facilities building this is down toward the end of the loop let's go see some more Big Lagoon stuff if you're coming out to the Big Lagoon State Park Pensacola Florida you're probably going to have some kiddos with you they're going to be excited to find out there's a brand new play structure just for them here on the camping Loop we have a boardwalk let's go check it out let's see where the boardwalk takes if anywhere a slash pine kind of got a bit of a swamp action going on kind of some Sandy Dune action lots of cool gnarly old live oak trees this is a rough Boardwalk talking about insects I bet there's a few of those he that's see Dash dashon Holly a holly tree that look like a cycle cycling Trail snakes found snakes are found all in all continents except Antarctica don't feed the alligators pond hurdles our trail head for a hking trail up ticks got to watch out for ticks according to the sign that's a 2m Loop for Estuary Trail marsh [Music] rabbit H they don't have white tails they're cotton tail but they don't have cotton on their tail so how can they be a Cotton Tail if they don't have any cotton on their tail osprey big rap in the Raptor family all that Sugar Sand white sugar sand this area is renowned for sounds of nature all right Boardwalk has brought us over to the day use area if you if you have a group of people and you want to do a big Shin dig here in the the Florida Alabama line area area here at Big Lagoon State Park they have the governor's Pavilion check this out look this a great big structure full of picnic tables and a massive place to cook hamburgers and hot dogs and I think there's even a a restroom facility all of it on the boardwalk and very much Ada accessible sure enough that's what it is this a restroom facility out here and get us a view all right let's go see some more stuff one more look at the governor's Pavilion from a different perspective before we what a great place to hang out and eat a snack maybe even go for a little dip this is the West Beach deuse area we got several Pavilions and best of all a sidewalk so you can get your Mobility Scooter down there or your stroller without having to get bogged down in the sand how cool is that and there's also a boardwalk access to the restroom facilities we'll go see oh and but wait there's more most of the state parks I've been to have an Amphitheater so it's not uncommon but this I got to tell you this is impressive and it's actually this Amphitheater is available for reservation and Rental that's an Amphitheater if I ever saw one right there there's even like a green room in the back that's pretty cool they even have picnic Pavilion just for the Ampitheater how cool is that oh we're headed to something good I can see it I can see it in the distance just wait till we get to the end of that road Pavilion number 46 that's not the cool it's not but we're at the end of the road but this is not the [Music] cool we're getting there this is pretty cool but it's not the [Music] cool the the number 46 appears to be just restroom it's windy oh bummer maybe maybe it's not a it's not the the bummer maybe we can still get out but that's not the cool either that's the cool so what we're going to do is we're going to go back over here and see if we can go all the way around to the tower closed for your safety well we won't be going that way let's go let's go check out the [Music] tower like a kayak launch right there I guess that may be the only way you can get to the beach is on a kayak [Music] all right we're going to risk it let me put on a helmet not because I'm worried about being safe but because I have a camera on my helmet now it's on so let's go to the top going up is is not the the the really the really hard part is it's the coming down that's the really challenging part wow it's windy there's all the park there's actually people parked on the beach out there wow it's so windy okay I'm Blown Away now I got to go back down let's go see if we can find some more stuff my boat ran fans are going to be so excited we have four lanes for launching boats and three Wars well that one the warf looks like it got blown away in the last hurricane apparently you can fish on this too cuz it says fishermen yield to boers well all right let's go check out some de stuff there's a there's a deuse pavilion we're going to go over there though so if you're coming to Big Lagoon State Park you're probably going to want to go to the beach so we we've come into pdto key which is like right across the big bridge Public Access uh as far as I can tell there's no you don't have to pay to park there find out of course with most most places if you have a handicap plate you don't have to pay for parking interesting that's that's private property uh and you can walk on a wet sand so in between these boxes or on the wet sand all right so I've touched the water you've seen the beach well I'm not a big beach kind of guy so we're going to go shopping now I I would have taken y'all down to the National Seashore but that requir what I what I do this is considered a commercial video and that requires a a permit and that permit requires a non-refundable $700 application fee and if they don't like what you propose you don't get your money back Public Access it is I almost forgot to close it out good morning from Big Lagoon State Park I noticed something yesterday that I thought was interesting and that's this little structure across the street from us I kind of got the Forest Gump accent going this morning anyway a couple of things I found fascinating yesterday one is this right here all this it is it's some kind of [Music] fungi but my little my app couldn't tell me exactly what it was so if you know what those those fungi are I'd appreciate you posting a comment down there I think it's just really really fascinating that it's growing in there but the structure I'm standing under is is what I was looking at yesterday like what the heck is that you got phone there and then power there so I I presume this is a place where if if you're tent camping or something and you don't have a a power sight you can come and charge your phone and get some juice that's convenient we're done here at Big Lagoon it was just a waypoint for us moving on back to the West we're going to pack up here and we're going to head to font Blue State Park Louisiana on Lake okobe you're going to want to remember to click the Subscribe button down there so that you don't miss that episode Wednesday this week you'll have the virtual tour the scooter run with the GoPro and then Thursday the insta 360 will come out and then Sunday we'll be at Fon Blue State Park Louisiana if you've not already I'd be honored if you'd consider clicking on the Subscribe button and for those of you who have been following along that's that's why I get to do what I do that's why I'm here this a really great site we like it we'll be back for those of you who have already subscribed 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