Rain in the Forecast? 15 Ways Your Fort Morgan Trip Stays Fun (Beach Optional)

You checked the ten-day forecast and there it is — a little rain cloud sitting right on top of your vacation. Two things are true down here: most storms blow through in an hour or two and hand the beach right back, and even on a full washout you've got options.

Here's our running list of what to do when the sky opens up, sorted by who you're traveling with.

For kids with energy to burn

1. The Factory in Gulf Shores — indoor trampolines, foam pits, a ninja course, the works. This is where you send the kids to come home tired.

2. Arcades — Fat Daddy's and The Track. Loud, blinky, prizes at the end. Kids love it, and it's dry.

3. Escape rooms — Breakout Games at The Wharf. Give the crew an hour to argue their way out. Best with older kids and teens.

4. Laser tag and bazooka ball at Arena: The Next Level, also at The Wharf.

5. Bowling at Gulf Bowl in Foley — huge place, lanes plus laser tag under one roof.

6. Tropic Falls indoor waterpark — glass roof, so the rain literally can't reach you.

For history and slow browsing

1. Fort Morgan's historic site — a lot of it's indoors, and a gray, misty day honestly makes the old fort feel like something out of a movie.

2. Gulf Shores Museum — small, free, tucked in a cute old cottage. Twenty minutes well spent.

3. Coastal Arts Center in Orange Beach — take a glass-blowing or pottery class and leave with something you actually made.

4. The Naval Aviation Museum over in Pensacola — a proper day trip, a hangar full of restored planes, all indoors.

For the grown-ups

1. Tanger Outlets in Foley — real deals, all under cover.

2. A movie — the AMC at The Wharf or the Gulf Shores theater. Catch a matinee and save a few bucks.

3. Big Beach Brewing — the island brewery, extra cozy when it's wet out.

4. Book a massage and call the rain a gift.

5. A long, slow seafood lunch while it pours. This coast can cook.

Stay in and create lasting memories

Some of our favorite guest reviews are about the rainy morning nobody left the house. At the Beach Bayou that looks like the hot tub going while the storm rolls over the Gulf, everybody spread out (there's room for fourteen), a big pot of something on the stove, coffee, a board game, darts, arcade room chilling, netflix on the big TV, and zero agenda. Keep the beach bag by the door, though — odds are you'll be back on the sand by lunch.

Trying to dodge the wet weeks altogether? Here's when we'd tell you to come, and how to stock the kitchen ahead of time so a day in is effortless.

A few quick questions we get

What is there to do in Gulf Shores when it rains?

Plenty — trampoline parks, arcades, escape rooms, bowling, the indoor Tropic Falls waterpark, museums, art classes, outlet shopping, movies, breweries, and spas. And most showers pass in a couple of hours anyway.

Does it rain much at Fort Morgan?

It's the Gulf, so quick summer showers happen — but they usually clear fast and the sun's back the same afternoon.

Anything to do right near Fort Morgan?

The historic fort's museum is close and mostly indoors, all of Gulf Shores' indoor stuff is a short drive, or you just enjoy the house.

The right house makes any forecast fine — book The Beach Bayou →