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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.
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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!
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Experiences
![Pavilion with Canoes](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/26729975_SOvkuZr7veUSfS9d7MTc2It18q0ABlZBh_cmyk_l.jpg?itok=8R86jqQE)
![Glowing orange sunset and sky.](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/Big%20Lagoon%20Sunset.jpeg?itok=g_crr7Z1)
![Visitors with Tubes walking down a boardwalk](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/BLPS_tower%20with%20people.jpg?itok=6F5pukyP)
![Long view of boardwalk](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/Big_Lagoon_contest_M_Roth_boardwalk_S1SEZ9VI2q9HYDVZD88vDqr18q0ABlZBh_cmyk_l.jpg?itok=-zRhr6Da)
![Children Swimming and playing in water](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/BLSP_children%20swimming.jpg?itok=HtN4Y8FO)
![Three kayakers paddle around coastal marsh with view of Pavilion in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/Big%20Lagoon%20Kayaking.jpg?itok=qEKuXLZH)
![Great Blue Heron sits on a tree with lush green vegetation in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/Great%20Blue%20Heron.jpg?itok=irgwV0zb)
![Three white tail deer standing amongst the vegetation on foggy morning.](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery/public/media/image/Big%20Lagoon%20wildlife.jpeg?itok=TMgwV7hM)