My cousin owns the Frost Bites trailer there. Good stuff. Our kids are all older now, but we go to Ft Morgan every year. It reminds me of Destin back in the late 70's/early 80's. Sparse crowds, quiet, clean, and you can set up your spot on the beach and don't have to take it down every night. 15 years of going and never had anything stolen.
We stayed at the Lost Key golf/resort last year. You get a "membership" with your condo rental. Still have to pay ~$30 per round for cart fee but place was nice and the golf was challenging but beautiful (there are gators in the water so be careful).
I did lose more golf balls there than the last 10 places I'd played before. Quite a few blind shots on that course. Still played it multiple times and enjoyed.
I played it a couple of weeks ago and it was in the best shape of any course I think I've ever played on. It was perfect. Fairways are so narrow and out of bounds is inaccessible. Guy that I play with never takes his driver out of the bag , just plays irons.
It's going to be more crowded this year in October as several MS district have a fall break. And going to the beach.
Only problem with Ft. Morgan is all the oil rigs everywhere. And, they don't have a lot of garbage cans around on the beach, so there is always some litter.
Ahhhh, the good old days of Green Knight Liquor. Whatever happened to that big damn thing?
And Nightown - the only place to party back in the day.
We had a trip planned down there in October a few years ago with a house reservation and everything ready to drive over from Texas. Only problem was a little hurricane came along and canceled our trip
I could retire early if I had all the liquor money I spent in that place. It lasted something like 30+ years, it was an icon
Yeah, I’m not sure about OB, but I know the vacation crowds have started to spill over way into October from Pensacola to Destin. It’s normally people with either young or no kids but it’s definitely picked up the last couple of years. We used to be able to go to Opal Beach in between Navarre and Pensacola Beach in October and there would be maybe 20 cars mostly local and either kayakers or fishermen, but last year the parking lot was packed with half and half locals and non locals.
If the wind is out of the south or west, it can get muddy. It it is coming out of the east or north it should be fine. There is a second Jessie's down toward Ft. Morgan now.
The added benefit of the Four Seasons is the fishing pier.
I’ll warn people about the Waterpark. We are season pass holders and have been several times. When it first opened it was fine. When we went a couple of times early this year the water on several rides and the kids area were freezing. We went twice during the Spring 2 slides were closed because of no lifeguards. Summer had lifeguards but it was so packed you couldn’t even get tubes for some rides because they ran out. If you have little kids, the amusement park is great because there are rarely lines for the rides that they will like. Also if you want to go to the Waterpark you have to pay for both but not vice versa.
Did you fish off their pier? We have family with a unit there and it is nice.
$30 for the round and $100 worth of golf balls to get through it.
Turquoise places lazy river being on the north side also means it’s colder earlier as it spend a good bit of time in the shade from the condos. I’ve been there last week of September once and it was too cold for me.
Really depends on what you want to do.
