🏕️ Mother's Day Camping 💐
Dates: 🌱 May 10-11 , 2024
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S M T W T F S
S M T W T F S
Buescher State Park
Smithville, TX
👩🏻💼 Staff was friendly and helpful
✔️ 🚻 Restrooms
✔️ 🚿 Showers
✔️ 💩 Dump Station
✔️ 🚶🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️ Trails - hilly
✔️ 🌊 Lake access - fishing, canoe rentals
✔️ 🏚 Cabins
✔️ 🛒 Store
📋 Site #27
🅿 Site Pad: level, concrete, barely long enough for trailer, perpendicular
to the road.
↔ Spacing: Spacious on the driver side, semi-close on the camping side, but
dense brush between. Park Host site is on the camping side, but empty and
"Off Duty" so no close neighbors
🌳 Partial Sun
💧 Water
✔️ ⚡ Electric 20/30
❌ 💩 Sewer
✔️ 🔥 Fire Ring w/Grate
✔️ Picnic Table on concrete, wood with metal legs
Notes:
•❗#27 is a very tight spot to get into. Perpendicular to the road. Brush
and trees are right up to the road on the opposite side. Not much room to
pull up and back. Site pad is concrete and wide enough. Barely long enough
for my 27' trailer. I had to pull the truck sideways across the end and it
stuck out into the road a little bit. The
back end of the pad drops off about a foot so you have to watch where you
are going. The table and fire ring are down a slope. The site is completely
surrounded by small trees and yaupons. Green all around, but not much room to open the door and go out. Get as far to the
utility side as possible.
• Very few spots are "big rig" friendly
Regular cost per night $23
Discounts: Texas Parks Pass
My total cost for 2 nights: $27 = Avg $13.50/night
🚘146.6 miles round trip - 9.15 mph
💜💜💜 Highlights of this trip💜💜💜
👩🏻 Who I went with: Solo
👀 Things I saw: Pines are growing back, Cedar Elms have lovely Spanish
Moss on them, the drive between Buescher and Bastrop is still a nice drive
🐦 Wildlife I encountered: White-eyed Vireo, Cardinals, Chuck Will's
Widow, Squirrels
🚵🏻♀️ Trails I biked: Just on the road. Loop around the lake 2.6 mi
📚 What I learned: Better to drive around the loop to the right and back
in to the left. It's pronounced Bisher, not Bewsher.
😮 A surprising moment: The ranger didn't show up for the guided walk, so
I joined a young family and we did our own walk. Many people at home and
across Texas saw the Northern Lights, but I missed it.
🙃 An unforeseeable moment: Chiggers! Forecast didn't look good for
the morning and I wanted to be home for Mother's Day, so I left around
7:30 pm.
🛍️ My favorite souvenir: A new stamp in my camping books and a park scratched off my Texas Parks map, medallion for my walking stick
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