North Padre Island Vacation Rentals

08/18/2026

Fall is a great time at the beach! Gorgeous weather and less crowds. Be my guest.

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07/22/2026

A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchling release is scheduled for Saturday, July 25, 2026, at 6:45am on Malaquite Beach. Here are a few things to consider!

⚠️ IF THERE IS NO UPDATE TO THIS POST, THAT MEANS THAT THE HATCHLING RELEASE IS HAPPENING AS PLANNED. ⚠️

📞 Call the Hatchling Hotline at (361) 949-7163 before you drive out to the seashore to make sure the release is happening. The hotline is a recorded message you can call anytime day or night.

🌩️ Hatchling releases may be cancelled if the turtles have not hatched on the expected date, due to bad weather (ex. pouring rain, lightning on the beach, high winds), extreme high tides, or flooding over roadways, etc.

💲 Park entrance fees are required to enter the park year-round. To save time, purchase your entrance pass online BEFORE coming to the park.

🎟️ The $10 per vehicle one-day pass expires at midnight on the date of purchase. Do not purchase this pass the night before the hatchling release as it will be expired in the morning. Purchase your $10 per vehicle one-day pass the morning of the hatchling release only AFTER calling the calling the Hatchling Hotline to verify the release is happening.

🪪 Annual and lifetime pass holders do not need to pay the park entrance fee but must present their pass and ID at the entrance station.

🚗 Expect delays of up to 30-minutes entering the park. Hatchling releases take place on Malaquite Beach in front of the Malaquite Visitor Center. The visitor center is located 15-minutes south of the park entrance station. Once you arrive at the release site, you must park in a parking lot, walk across the visitor center deck, down the ramp and out to the beach. Driving on Malaquite Beach to the hatchling release site is not permitted. If you have not been to the park before, take some time to look at a map of the park.

🐕‍🦺 Please leave your pets at home. Trained service animals, authorized under the ADA are allowed.

🛍️ Looking for a souvenir? The park store only accepts credit and debit cards or mobile phone payments.

❓ For more information about how to prepare to attend a release, please visit go.nps.gov/HatchlingRelease

07/22/2026

The longest undeveloped barrier island in the world is in Texas, and most Texans have never set foot on it.

Padre Island National Seashore stretches 70 miles along the South Texas coast, protecting one of the last remaining natural barrier island ecosystems in the United States. No hotels, no boardwalks, no development of any kind — just sand, surf, and some of the most important sea turtle nesting habitat in the Western Hemisphere. Five species of sea turtles nest here, including the critically endangered Kemp's ridley, the rarest sea turtle on Earth. Every summer, rangers patrol the beach at dawn looking for nests and release hatchlings into the Gulf under public viewing.

What wild Texas coastline have you explored? Follow Deep Texas for the shores that time forgot. 🌾

07/19/2026

07/05/2026

What an amazing show and photos from LL Imagery LLC

The boats lined up to watch the firework show on Padre Island 🎇

04/21/2026

10th anniversary.

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the Port A for peace sign gathering on the beach just South of Horace Caldwell Pier in Port Aransas. People will gather tomorrow, Wednesday at 4:00 pm to form the giant peace symbol to celebrate Earth Day. People of all backgrounds and generations are invited to help form the peace symbol. There will be a drone shot @ 4:00pm if you would like to be in the photograph. Pictured below is the first human peace symbol in 2016. Photo By Miles Merwin

03/31/2026