Topsail Hill/Gregory E Moore RV Resort

This is a great campground and amazingly also a state park. Cable, water, 50 amp, sewer and some very nice sized sites. Access to the beach a short bike ride or tram ride away. Has laundry facilities, pool, shuffleboard, clubhouse and some organized activities.
The area has great restaurants and shopping. Lots of interesting things to see and do. We have camped here frequently, it is one of our favorite spots.

This review is just for the park itself, as we didn’t camp or bring an RV.
Topsail Hill is just down the road from Sandestin, but it is not overly crowded. There are hiking (unpaved) and bike (paved) trails, plus beach access. After paying your $ 6 entry fee, you park at a shuttle stop. The shuttle runs the 0.75 miles to the beach at the top of the hour.
We happened to arrive at 2 p.m. and got on the shuttle. The beach is quite pristine here; it reminded us a bit of Cumberland Island in GA. There are plenty of people here for the day, but crowding is not an issue. Plus, if you hike just a few hundred yards up the beach, you can get as alone as you’d like.
In looking at the park map, we opted to walk west along the beach and then take the hiking/​biking trails back. Mileages are a bit rough, but it didn’t appear too bad. My only complaint about the park would be that they could use better signage on the alternate beach-​trail access point. The only way to find it is to look for footprints /​maintenance vehicle tracks heading off-​beach. Plus, it was a bit further than we anticipated.
The hike back, though long, was enjoyable. After a sandy 200 yards or so, you come to an improved hiking trail. Signs here are decent, keeping you on the right color-​coded trail. We took the orange trail along a large pond. It ends at the terminus of the paved bike trail, where there is also a restroom and a couple of pavilions /​tables. We refilled our bottle at the water fountain and hiked the 1.5 miles back to the main road /​shuttle trail. From that point, it was only another ¼ mile or so back to the parking lot.
We were all more tired than planned, but it was one of the nicest 3.5-mile walks we’ve done lately. The camping /​RV facilities /​rental cabins looked quite nice as well.

We stayed in a tent in spot T07 from 3÷22÷15 thru 3÷27÷15. This place is fantastic! It’s clean, beautiful and friendly. We walked to and from the beach everyday. It’s a nice paved path a half mile to the boardwalk. Great exercise! When you get halfway on the boardwalk you start to see the beautiful jade colored waters and white sand! This beach is very clean and not crowded this time of year. The tent sites have paths that separate one from another, with needle palms, pine trees and assorted native shrubs and trees. Plenty of mockingbirds and your occasional boisterous crow. The sites also have electric. I utilized this for charging our phones and an extension cord with Christmas lights that I wrapped inside of my canopy tent over the picnic table at night. Romantic lighting for those nice and cool breezy nights playing cards and eating good food! The bathhouses are kept super clean. The RV sections host visitors from all over, even many places in Canada. The paved RV streets have great names like Pampas Grass Blvd and Pine Cone Way. It’s like stepping back in time a bit with how clean, kept up and peaceful it is. (loud music and obnoxious drunken people are nowhere to be found! Yay!) Not to mention so many friendly people. They have a pool, shuffleboards, ponds for fishing, nature trails and rentals of all kinds including bicycles. We didn’t bother with all that because we were basically beach bums! But it’s there if you want it. If you forget to bring something, Wal-​Mart is a half mile away not to mention a new Starbucks and of course a Publix liquor store. I live 600 miles away from this place, and my stay was five nights. With gasoline and accommodations, the total came to roughly $ 220.00! That’s an affordable vacation! We are totally coming back for future visits and would recommend this to anyone who can respect the standards expected of you to make it enjoyable for everyone.

This our first visit to a Florida state park, but we can’t imagine how any could be better than this. As retired full-​time RVers we usually stay at parks in our 1000 Trails program. However, this state park beats most of them. The many bike trails are relatively flat and some take you right down to the gulf shore. The RV pads are cement and level. WiFi and cable TV hookups are included in the affordable camping fees. To top off this the park has what they call «cabins» which are more like small houses with extra large screened in decks. We’re going to give serious consideration to having our next family reunion at this park.

Love this place. 4^th year in a row. Great sites lots, of cover. Pool and kid activities are great. Only con… The beach shuttle could be every half hour instead on the hour. But for the price and what you get its still a 5 star campground.

This is one of the best state parks I have been to… if you like the outdoors without all the riff raff of Panama City beach you will love top sail… they have activities for the family and very neat and clean camp sites… the beach is not walking distance but they have a free tram that will take you to the beach… pets are not allowed on the beach that kinda sucks… but once you get to the beach this view if the turquoise blue and green gulf opens up right before you… the beach is lined with sand dunes and if ur quiet you can even see a sea turtle or two…

This is the best state park ran RV campgrounds we have stayed. It is located on a beautiful preserve, about a mile from the beach (with hourly shuttles), has a large play area, and a full laundry facilities.
This RV park had water, sewer, and electric hookups. They also had cable hookups at the campsite! There was a small laundry room, which was clean. The spaces had lots of room in between which provided amble privacy.
Would I recommend this park? Absolutely. Would we come back? Absolutely.
Informational: We travel in a 36′ Class A RV.

Great place. We rented a bungalow for four adults and there was plenty of room. Very clean with all the amenities. It is roughly a mile to the beach or lake. Rent the bicycles and get the exercise. Members of the park staff are wonderful. If you tent camp be aware that some areas of the campground flood if there is significant rain.

Great camping — staff fantasticly helpful
Laundry, hot shwrs — clean
Bit of hike to beach

Wow… Just wow…
I was booking our Spring Break in December 2011 and came across this park. I booked it because I had never been to the Florida panhandle. My husband used to vacation in Fort Walton, so I was relatively sure we would have a good time. We camped here for five days, but I wish we could have camped for five months. It was that good.
The RV Resort is run like, well, a resort. The grounds are exceptionally well maintained. Each RV site has its own bit of landscaping and a night light. The sites are concrete and level, making set-​up a breeze. Our neighbors were really friendly. From what we learned, if you stay here for a couple of months, you might have to move your rig to another site, but no one seemed to mind. The whole time we were there, we never lacked for something to do. We hiked to the beach, although there is a tram that runs from the campground to the walkway to the beach. Use the tram on beach days, you’ll need it. And the beach! Very pristine with clear blue water. If you decide to spend the day, bring a cart or wagon to bring your food, water, etc. The bathrooms at the beach as well as the campground were very well maintained. At night, we walked to the beach day lot and looked up at the stars. There was some light pollution, but not enough to stop me from seeing a few satellites. The next day, we hiked further into the hammock, but there are paved trails for biking and hiking alike. We also went to the USAF Armament Museum, which was totally awesome. We wanted to get up to watch the Blue Angels practice, but we were cautioned that the traffic to Pensacola could be snarled and we were feeling lazy!
When we didn’t feel (well, when I didn’t feel) like cooking, there were several great eateries in the area, just Unilocal.There is also a brand-​new Wal-​Mart right down the street.
Our camp hosts were sooooo wonderful. Very helpful and friendly. They even made our dog feel welcome! I got to use some of my rusty French on some of the many Canadians who come to stay here. The laundry was clean and convenient. Take a moment to check out the butterfly garden next to the laundry, very cool. Wifi was pretty good, although used quite heavily. We too advantage of cable instead of using our Dish.
I would definitely come back here to stay, if not live. The area is so beautiful and chill. Perfect vacation spot. Hey! Save me a site in April!

This review is about the park. I don’t have an RV and did not camp here. The park is great, a quite large network of hiking trails wandering through a wide variety of natural environments (pine forest, 2 coastal dune lakes, swampy and marshy areas, a great beach.) This park is fairly large by Florida state park standards and there is a nice long stretch of undeveloped beach here… Unfortunately vehicles have apparently been allowed on the beach in large numbers, the tire tracks sort of dissuade from the natural experience. The rest of the park, which features many huge sand dunes and lots of very interesting vegetation, in addition to the possibility of seeing bears and alligators, which both reside in the park, is great! The park staff are very friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. This park is quite well organized. There is a lot of birdlife here. The park organizes occasional guided ranger walks in the park, although when I went today (Feb 2011) I did not get a chance to check one of those out.