Start from 26 curated places around Biloxi, MS, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
White Pillars Restaurant and Lounge
A restored 1905 neoclassical beach mansion turned farm-to-table dining room recognized in the MICHELIN Guide American South, with a menu built on Gulf seafood, hand-made pasta, and ingredients sourced from small regional farms. The lounge bar centers on the oldest known bar in Biloxi, a walnut fixture salvaged from a Chicago hotel. Best for a proper special-occasion dinner with serious food and a room that earns attention.
Half Shell Oyster House
A downtown Biloxi seafood room designed to feel like a French Quarter bistro, with an open oyster-grill bar, wrought iron railings, and murals by local artists, known for charbroiled oysters finished over live fire and a gumbo that wins awards. It sits at the top of every local seafood list and earns it consistently. Best for a proper oyster dinner with New Orleans flavors without crossing into Louisiana.
Trails & outdoors
Gulf Islands Seashore: Davis Bayou Area
The Mississippi unit of Gulf Islands National Seashore, a federally protected coastal forest of live oak, cypress, and bayou landscape that feels worlds away from the casino strip seven miles west. The Davis Bayou trail network covers 2.7 miles through wetlands over two bayous, with birdwatching that draws serious birders and regular alligator sightings. Best for a proper nature morning with a good chance of seeing wildlife up close.
West Beach Boardwalk
A paved, two-mile beachside path running along the Gulf of Mexico on Biloxi's west end, the most popular walkable stretch on the Mississippi coast, with wide-open water views, direct beach access, and none of the shade to slow you down. At sunrise and before the heat it is one of the more beautiful stretches of Gulf coastline you can walk without a car. Best for an early morning run or a slow walk at dusk.
Things to do
Lynn Meadows Discovery Center
A children's discovery museum in a 1915 schoolhouse in Gulfport, set under live oaks a few blocks from the beach, with 15,000 square feet of hands-on exhibits designed for young children and the adults dragged along by them. It earned a TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice designation and has a genuine hands-on-science ethos rather than a passive-display one. Best for a family with young children who need an indoor morning away from the heat.
Ground Zero Blues Club
Named Rolling Stone's 'Mississippi's Must-See Music Venue,' co-owned by Morgan Freeman and housed in the historic Kress Building two blocks from the beach, with live blues and roots music that ranges from emerging regional acts to Grammy-level performers. The room is small, the sound is good, and there is no cover charge most nights. Best for a genuine Mississippi blues experience without driving to the Delta.
Landmarks & sights
Biloxi Lighthouse
A 64-foot cast-iron tower from 1848 that stands, improbably, in the median of U.S. Highway 90, making it the only lighthouse in America stranded in the center of a major road. It survived the Civil War, multiple hurricanes, and a century of development untouched, and guided ships into Biloxi Bay for over a hundred years. The most photogenic and disorienting landmark on the coast.
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art
A campus of swooping, asymmetrical buildings designed by Frank Gehry to weave between ancient live oaks on a four-acre beachfront site — the architecture alone is worth the trip. The collection centers on George Ohr, the self-proclaimed 'Mad Potter of Biloxi,' whose early-twentieth-century ceramics look uncannily contemporary. The combination of a world-class building and a genuinely eccentric American artist no one outside Mississippi knows.