The votes are in and Ocean Beach Tourist Park on the Gold Coast has been crowned Australia’s favourite caravan park. The beachside beauty in the GC suburb of Miami was named the ReviewPro People’s Choice Caravan Park of the Year at the 2025 Caravan Industry Awards.
A longtime favourite with sun-seeking holidaymakers, the park has a prime perch overlooking the beach, tucked between the surf life saving club and the craggy bluff of North Burleigh. If you’ve ever stayed at Ocean Beach, your glutes will remember the stair climb from the beach to the lookout.
It’s an intimate caravan park with 57 powered sites and a handful of water-view cabins fronting the esplanade. WikiCamps reviews are almost consistently good, with reviewers describing the park as “spotless” and in an “excellent location”. Others praise the “super friendly staff and campers”.
“It’s the cleanest caravan park I’ve visited in my trip in Australia! Really recommend,” gushes one reviewer.
Ocean Beach, run by leisure management group BelgraviaPro, is one of 10 council-owned tourist parks and campgrounds on the Gold Coast. The win was a case of fourth-time lucky for the park, which was a runner up three times in the past four years. McLean Beach Holiday Park in Deniliquin, Victoria, took out silver, with Bronze going to Imbil Camping Retreat near the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
The awards were announced at the Caravan Industry Association of Australia’s national conference in May. Winners were determined by guest feedback on the ReviewPro platform.
“This award means so much because it comes from the people who’ve actually stayed with us,” said park manager Bec Morgan. She attributed the win to the park’s focus on cleanliness and maintenance and the extra touches, like pancake breakfasts, barbecues and burger-van nights with live music.
“We run our park the way we’d want it to be run if we were guests ourselves. That means creating a relaxed, well-maintained space, getting to know our guests, having real conversations, and being there to listen,” Morgan said.
Last year’s winner was BIG4 Bendigo Marong Holiday Park in Victoria, followed by Ocean Beach Tourist Park. Bronze went to Solitary Islands Resort Wooli in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.
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