Boondocking at J5 Show Barn
M T W T F S S
Lake Livingston State Park
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M T W T F S S
๐ฉ Dump Station
๐ถ๐ป♀️๐ด๐ป♀️ Trails
๐ Lake access for swimming and boating
๐ Cabins
⛱ Day use area
๐ Pets on leash only
๐ Store and interpretive center ๐๐
๐ Site #65
๐ Back In ๐ ฟ Site Pad: Concrete, level, long enough for truck and trailer↔ Spacing: spacious
๐ณ Partial Shade
๐ง Water
⚡ Electric 20/30/50
๐ฉ Sewer up front - my sewer on trailer is close to the back
๐ฅ Fire Ring w/Grate
Picnic Table on concrete
Notes:
• Site backs up to the Lake - nice views• ❗ Hookups are near the front of the site. It took 3 sewer hoses to reach.
Regular cost per night $36 ($30 + $6/person/day)
Discounts: Texas State Parks Pass waived daily entrance fees
My total cost for 1 night: $30
๐ 308.4 miles round trip - 9.7 mph
๐๐๐ Highlights of this trip๐๐๐
❓ Why I went: J5 Memorial Day Celebration / Add another State Park to my books and map
๐ฉ๐ป Who I went with: Dance group and more / alone
๐ข Dances I attended: Rocky King Band, Jake & Tommy Hooker, Landon Dodd, Jeff Woolsey at J5 Pasture Palace. Fun times, but it's always strange dancing in the daylight to start the day.
๐ Things I saw: Fun-loving, great friends, good musicians / an
Eagle (I think), nice trails, lots of mosquitoes, sunset over the water,
squirrels, White-eyed Vireo. I love the
Merlin Bird ID
app. ๐ฆ
๐ถ๐ป♀️Trails I walked: Trinity Trace, Bakta, Hawthorn (2.9 mi) Would have been great for biking as well. Pineywoods Boardwalk (1.0 mi) No bikes on boardwalk. Strollers would work on all of these but keep those babies protected from the skeeters! AllTrails is a great app.
๐ฝ Where I ate: Brunch and light dinners at campers at J5 Show Barn, The Wet Deck on Lake Livingston (nice place with a view, but service was SLOW and food was just okay-not even going to put their website), camp breakfast @ Lake Livingston ๐ณ
๐ What I learned: The generator will run the AC from 8 pm to 5:30 am on half a tank of gas. It's dang humid after rain storms! Mosquitoes don't care how much bug spray you apply. It's like perfume to those blood suckers! ๐ฆ
๐คฃ A laughable moment: With my group…always a lot of moments! ๐คช
๐ฎ A surprising moment: A friend of mine went way out of his way to pick up my generator on the way. Bless his heart! Thanks D! I danced a lot more than I expected. Made it back home in time for lunch with the family.
๐ An unforeseeable moment: We were supposed to stay at our regular spots in Indian Woods Campground in Hilltop Lakes, but the storm the night before knocked out power and they didn't know when it would come on. So, Richard and Tracy (owners of J5 Pasture Palace and good friends) let us dry camp at their show barn. If we had to go without hookups, we might as well be a whole lot closer!
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