Mardi Gras - Cowboy Style 2022

💜💚💛🎭 Laissez les bon temps rouler!  (Let the good times roll!) The first road/camping trip with Pepper went well. Camping with Good Friends and paintin' the town! I love them all to death. 

Bandera Crossing Riverfront RV Park

4300 TX-16N
Bandera, Texas 78003
Bandera County
https://www.bcirvr.com/
(830) 288-2200

This park has been open for just over a year. They are adding amenities, but for what is there right now, it was a bit pricey. Yes, I'm sure the pricing was upped due to Mardi Gras weekend. It will be nice when tables and grills/fire rings are added for each site, but right now, it's basic full-hookups and not much more. 

Check In: 3p Check Out: 12 p
Length of Stay: 3 Nights

💲 Cost per night $59 (Be aware...pricing on Thu, Fri, Sat night in 2023 is going up to $75)
Discounts: Good Sam 10%

📝 Site #38 Notes:

• Water
• Max amp: 50 Sewer
• Wifi
• Site Pad: level, gravel, long (it was a back-in site, but it's been upgraded and is super long pull-through)
• Utilities were close to the front. Parked camper and pulled the truck behind it instead
• Close to neighbors, but room enough for tables and such (if you brought them)
• No privacy between sites

👍🏻 Pros:

• Overflow parking nearby if needed
  
• Close to the river
• Big area to walk dogs or kids to play by the river (watch for sticker burrs in some areas)

👎🏻 Cons:

• Front row closest to the road- a little road noise
• No tables, fire rings or grills at campsites
• No shade trees
• No wind brake

📝 Park Notes:

• River access - but it's pretty low right now. Won't be kayaking or even tubing anytime soon
• Some deer in the park
• Cabins
• Some large fire rings on the outskirts of park, but not at sites
• 3 miles into Bandera - close but nice to get away during big event weekends
• There was a food truck on site, but it wasn't open this weekend

In process of being built:

• Great Lodge (should be ready by March)
  
• Office
• Store
• Restrooms/Showers
• Commercial Kitchen
• Zipline
• Yurts
• Amphitheater
• Pool/Hot Tub

💜 Highlights of this trip:

• 
  ⛺👢 Camping and Dancing with the Dance Group
• 🐕 Pepper's first camping trip
• 🎶 Arkey Blue's Silver Dollar and 11th Street Cowboy Bar 
  
• Geno Delafose
• Kendall Shaffer
• Meyers Anderson
• Wayne Toups
• George Dearborne
• 🥞 Late breakfast at OST Steakhouse on Friday
• OMG! The pancake was almost as big as the whole plate!
• 🥩 Just a camping day with late Steak "night" (late lunch)
• 🔥 Campfire (propane type)
• 🎭 Mardi Gras Parade
• Burleson County had a big presence in Arkey's afterwards
• Caught up with an old college buddy
• 📱 Capped some Munzees, put one out on the way home
• 🚘 440.4  miles round trip - 9.75 mpg

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