Mile 13.5 South Padre Wilderness Beach

Mile 13.5 beyond the end of pavement on the four-wheel drive South Padre Island wild beach. In places the dunes are eroded 15 feet high or even higher. The beaches most of us visit have been been nourished with sand from ship channels or offshore sources pumped onto the beach during the non-tourist season. The reason? Without a beach, condos, beach hotels, and resorts rentals of all kinds would be worthless. This beach has never been nourished and as a consequences has nearly been eroded away.