Enjoy the great outdoors. Ride your bike with your friends; camp with your family; look for wildlife; explore old forts; walk on the beach; look for shells; swim in the Gulf of Mexico; try your luck fishing; take a passenger ferry to West Ship Island; become a Junior Ranger! Gulf Islands National Seashore has plenty of fun activities
Did You Know?
Two 19th-century 15-inch Rodman cannons are at Gulf Islands National Seashore. The bottle-shaped barrels were cooled from the inside out at the foundry to make them stronger than earlier cannon.