Padre Island National Seashore

Protecting sixty-six miles of wild coastline along the Gulf of America, the narrow barrier island is home to one of the last intact coastal prairie habitats in the United States. Along the hypersaline Laguna Madre, tidal mud flats teem with life. Native Americans, Spanish explorers and cattle ranchers have walked along its shores. Padre Island National Seashore is waiting to be rediscovered.

What you’ll hear

33 places to explore in this park.

• Bird Island Basin Boat Ramp
• Bird Island Basin Day-use Area
• Freshwater Pond
• Grasslands Nature Trail
• Malaquite Beach
• Mansfield Channel
• North Beach
• Novillo Line Camp
• Padre Island Entrance Station
• Padre Island Park Store
• PIN101: Grasslands Nature Trail
• PIN102: Novillo Line Camp
• PIN103: Coastal Prairie (Bird Island Basin Road)
• PIN104: Tidal Mudflats at Bird Island Basin
• PIN105: Laguna Madre at Bird Island Basin
• PIN106: Fresh Water Pond
• PIN107: Malaquite Campground Dunes
• PIN108: Malaquite Visitor Center Dunes
• PIN109: Yarborough Pass
• South Beach, Mile 0 to 5
• South Beach, Mile 5 to 60
• Stop 10: Plains Wild Indigo (Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea)
• Stop 11: Gulfdune Paspalum (Paspalum monostachyum)
• Stop 1: Century Plant (Agave americana)
• Stop 2: Scarlet Pea (Indigofera miniata)
• Stop 3: Western Prickly Pear (Opuntia macrorhiza)
• Stop 4: Padre Island Mistflower (Conoclinium betonicifolium)
• Stop 5: Texas Goldentop (Euthamia gymnospermoides)
• Stop 6: Elegant Gayfeather (Liatris elegans)
• Stop 7: Wax Myrtle (Morella cerifera)
• Stop 8: Dagger Plant (Yucca aloifolia)
• Stop 9: Seacoast Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium littorale)
• Yarborough Pass