Matagorda Public Beach

What a better way to cool off yourself! Matagorda Beach is a 58 mile of beach. You can choose to stay for the day or up to 72 hrs. All you need is to buy the annual pass at any store for $10. We got our pass from the visitor center and the gas station nearby also sells them. There are part of the beach that has soft sand, so a 4wheel drive would nice but not necessary. Bring a shovel incase you get stuck. Also, no bathroom by the beach and the closest one I saw was by the visitor center. There is an RV park next to the visitor center if you plan stay longer and comfortable. It's a 3.5 hr drive from Killeen which is way closer than San Padre and get the same experience. Will definitely take the kiddos for camping when the weather cools off and hurricane season is over.

I've been coming here for years. Not the prettiest beach in Texas. I would rank it somewhere in the middle. Lots of wildlife around. Great camping if you drive a ways down the beach. Good fishing, shrimping, crabbing, surfing, boating, bird watching, or just hanging out at the beach.You can have a great time here if you want to. "Wherever you go, there you are" - Banzai Buckaroo.

Nice family beach. Not overly crowded. Lots of sea shells to collect Wading is good.

Well been here before with my friend her family and my kids but it had been more then 6 years ago. It was nice relaxing just enjoying the cold beer my bff and music and most important the ocean. It doesn't take much for this city girl to enjoy the ocean. We didn't go in the water it was restricted at that time but still had fun and will not wait 6 years to go back. Kinda put extra pictures but all in the same town. Thanks for reading

We really enjoyed our visit to the very clean and obviously maintained Matagorda Public Beach. Dallas girls gotta get their feet wet when we come to the coast, so we headed down for lunch and some shelling in Matagorda during our short trip to Bay City. We came on the Friday before Memorial Day, but the beach was not crowded at all and we were able to find our fill of treasures from the sea, including rare finds like sea beans and whole snail shells. 5 beautiful beachy stars

The beach has a lot of sea shells to collect so bring a bag. It's cool you can drive onto the beach and park on the beach. My only concern is a lot of plastic waste and pollution on the beach. People pollute and don't pick up after themselves. It's a nice beach. It's about a 1.5 to 2 hour drive from Houston. Bring food and have a picnic. Check it out!

We had a blast beach camping a few years ago in corpus Christi that we wanted to replicate the experience, so we found this hidden treasure called matagorda beach. Only 2 short hours away from Houston, this beach is the perfect place for a weekend getaway. It's quiet and isolated which I really like so there's plenty of room for you and your family. There are showers nearby (the outside no privacy kind) and restrooms they are well maintained (I saw the guy cleaning). Nearby, you can go fishing or crabbing. We drove up onto the beach and set up our tents and our grills. During the day we played on the sand. There are signs that say no swimming (I guess because of dangerous currents) but we mostly hung close to shore in the water. I did see some ppl swimming but they stayed relatively close and I guess they do so at their own risk (of death or of fine). I actually wouldn't recommend swimming because there are tons of jellyfish. I saw a few wash up. Also, the beach is not the cleanest. At night, we built fire in the sand and roasted marshmallows. We slept under the stars and some of us in tents or in our cars. Some of our neighbors nearby even bought fireworks. It's very nice isolated lonely place if you just want your space and privacy to party with your peeps. I'd say for any place like this where you're free to enjoy yourself, do behave responsibly. Tips:1. Do bring insect repellant. If you're walking to the washrooms at night you have to go through a field of tall grass that's the breeding ground of mosquitos. I was attacked viciously. 2. A canopy tent is really nice especially under the hot hot sun.

We are on spring break from Houston and are tired of Galveston and the crowds and traffic that wicome with it. So we decided to come down to Matagorda to see if we could have a better experience. We loved being able to drive on the beach and unload our stuff without hauling it from a parking lot. My daughter, a seashell collector, was not disappointed with the wide variety of shells on the beach. The beach was CLEAN, not super crowded, and full of seabirds. We will definitely be back!!

This is a very nice family beach we went in the middle of September weather was still very warm and the water was nice and calm

We enjoyed our time at the decently maintained Matagorda Beach, for the most part pretty clean beach area with zero seaweed, a lot of seashells and a little amount of litter that we helped clean up. The water here was as expected because of the Colorado river, good ole muddy Gorda! Easy, short trip down to the coast and will be back.