Big Lagoon State Park
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
Effective Feb. 1, 2025: The campground at Big Lagoon State Park will be closed from Feb. 1 - Aug. 1, 2025, for a renovation project.
Hours
8 a.m. until sunset, daily
Fees
$6 per vehicle
Location
12301 Gulf Beach Highway
Pensacola FL 32507
Contact Info
Welcome to Big Lagoon State Park
Natural communities, ranging from saltwater tidal marshes to pine flatwoods, attract a wide variety of birds, especially during the spring and fall migrations.
Think of Big Lagoon State Park as a gateway. It not only offers swimming, boating, fishing, camping, hiking and paddling, but adventurers also can begin or end a 1,515-mile sea kayaking journey on the Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail around the entire state. The top half of a kayak embedded in sand marks the launch site along with a box containing a weathered log book.
The park is also a gateway for the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail. The park is a stopover for more than 23 species of wood-warbler and a variety of ducks, sandpipers and black-bellied plovers. Bring binoculars or borrow a pair from the ranger station and roam the shore and extensive coastal forest, or climb the three-story observation tower for a bird’s-eye view.
Begin your outdoor adventure at Big Lagoon State Park!