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Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23
Drive-up · Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks · MS · 30.65287, -88.62708
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Ask about this camp →Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23NIFC · AirNow
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Everything you need — measured from Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23 · Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks · MS
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- DDump15 mi
- EVEV fast charger16 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- MMechanic18 mi
- @Mail19 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- OOutfitter20 mi
- WWater23 mi
- ShShower34 mi
- PPropane37 mi
- AAir-up52 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 23-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23
Access
Drive-up
Land
Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks
Elevation
8 ft
Ground slope
5% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~7.4 mi · main line
State
MS
Coordinates
30.65287, -88.62708
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23 · Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks · MS (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePascagoula River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Cane Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townWade · ~3.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~13.4 mi
- Propane / LPGAmerGas Propane | Theodore, Alabama · ~28.0 mi
- Dump station~14.8 mi
- GroceriesGreer's Hurley Market · ~8.2 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~8.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicGeorge Regional Hospital · ~18.7 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~19.1 mi
EV charging — from Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23 · Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks · MS — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger15.9 mi straight-line S — Pilot Travel Center 586, Moss Point, MS · eVgo Network · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach5 within 25 mi · 25 within 50 · 73 within 100 · 138 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)20.4 mi — TA Grand Bay Wilmer Road, Grand Bay, AL, Grand Bay
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO30.4 mi — BMW OF MOBILE 1 CPE250-2, Mobile
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)16.2 mi — Cannon Nissan Moss Point · Blink Network · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 460726 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23 · Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks · MS — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~14.1 mi S · FWS
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Area Jackson County I-10 WB · ~14.8 mi S
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Area Jackson County I-10 EB · ~14.9 mi S
- Highway rest areaNHS Welcome Center Jackson County Welcome Center · ~17.5 mi SE
Coming out here — Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23 · Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks · MS
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pascagoula River as a perennial river, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 5% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~7.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
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Who holds the land at Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Pascagoula Wma, for which PAD-US names no manager; it records the owner as a state fish and wildlife agency. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23
Stay limit
14 nights (limited to 14 consecutive days)
Source
public land records
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Pascagoula River WMA designated camping area, Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. LEGAL BASIS: 40 Miss Admin Code Part 2 Chapter 1, Rule 1.18, from the COMPILATION 2025-26 WMA Regulations (Rev. 04-2025), downloaded from mdwfp.com and read 2026-08-13. That rule says, verbatim: "Camping is allowed only in designated areas, or on sandbars and along rivers and creeks, provided such camp is visible from a boat. Camping is limited to 14 consecutive days. All campsites must be maintained in a neat and orderly manner. Camping equipment may not be left unattended for more than 24 hours. All camping equipment and garbage must be removed before final departure. NOTE: a separate clause in the same rule restricts one part of the WMA to 'designated camping areas during permitted draw hunts only' -- during autumn draw hunts check which unit you are in." ACCESS PERMIT, NOT A CAMPING FEE: MDWFP Rule 1.6 requires every user of a WMA on land NOT owned by the U.S. Forest Service to carry an Annual, Individual or Family WMA User Permit -- Resident Annual $15.00, Non-Resident Annual $30.00. On USFS-owned WMAs the annual permit is required only of people hunting, fishing or trapping. Anyone exempt from buying a hunting/fishing licence under Miss. Code Ann. 49-7-5 / 49-7-9 is exempt from the permit. MDWFP publishes NO separate per-night camping fee for these sites. Coordinate is MDWFP's own GIS: public ArcGIS service https://arcgis.mdwfp.com/arcgis/rest/services/Website/WMA_New/MapServer layer 0 ('WMA POINT FEATURES'), queried 2026-08-13 for TYPE IN ('CAMPING','CAMP SITE','CAMP SITES'). It is the agency's mapped camp-site point, NOT a field visit and NOT a geocode. MDWFP does not publish per-site facilities, so table/fire-ring/toilet presence is UNKNOWN. No water source is claimed. MDWFP Rule 1.1 also bans alcoholic beverages on WMAs and target shooting outside designated ranges. Hunting seasons run on these areas -- check mdwfp.com/wma for the current season dates and any draw-hunt closure before you go, and wear hunter orange in season. Nearest town: Escatawpa ~15.5 mi -- STRAIGHT-LINE distance to the nearest OpenStreetMap place=city/town/village, NOT a driving distance; in the Delta and the Pascagoula bottoms the road in can be far longer. MDWFP does not name its individual camp points, so the number in this row's name is ours, assigned in MDWFP OBJECTID order, not a sign on the ground. Ingest 2026-08-13. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Pascagoula River WMA camp site 23
Finding water out here →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →Off-grid communication →All field notes →