Biloxi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Casino Strip · Biloxi, Mississippi
Twenty-six miles of man-made beach along Highway 90 between Biloxi, Gulfport and Pass Christian, with a casino industry that arrived in 1992, was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and rebuilt itself onshore. The coast is a genuinely odd hybrid — a working seafood town, a resort strip, a Frank Gehry art museum and the oldest continuously operating lighthouse of its kind on the Gulf, standing in the central reservation of a dual carriageway. Katrina is the fact underneath all of it: the storm surge went twenty-eight feet and the coast that exists now was substantially built after 2005.
1 Beach Boulevard, Biloxi, Mississippi, 39530, United States
A coastal region, accessible year round. Beaches are open at all times and are unguarded along most of their length. Casinos operate around the clock. The Ship Island ferry from Gulfport is seasonal, generally March to October. Museums keep daytime hours with reduced winter schedules. HURRICANE SEASON RUNS JUNE TO NOVEMBER.
Biloxi and the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Spottos · Explore more places on Spottos