📅 Dates: November 29- December 1, 2024 🍂
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M T W T F S S
Between Luling and Gonzales , TX
Park Info
✔️ 🚻 Restrooms
✔️ 🚿 Showers
✔️ 💩 Dump Station
✔️ 🚶🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️ Trails
✔️ 🌊 Water features - San Marcos River, small lake, artesian well
❌ 🏊🏻♀️ Pool / Hot Tub
✔️ 🏡 Cabin
❌ 🐕 Off-leash dog park
❌ 🧺 Laundry facility
✔️ 🛒 Store
❌ 🚧Locked Gates
Site #13
↔ Spacing: Nearby, no vegetation between sites for privacy
🌳 Sun/Shade - Partial
✔️ ⚡ Electric 20/30/50
✔️ 💧 Water
❌ 💩 Sewer
✔️ 🔥 Fire Ring ✔️ Grate
(but we were in a burn ban-brought propane fire pit)
✔️ 🧺 Picnic Table on concrete ❌ Covered
❌ 📺Very few OTA channels
📶 Signal
AT&T ⬇️ 73.1 ⬆️ 3.97
Verizon ⬇️ 2.79 ⬆️ 0.60
Regular cost per night: $18 + $3/person (3 of us)
Discount: Texas State Parks Pass - ½ off second night, daily per person entrance fees waived $27
My total cost: $27 Avg/night: $13.50
🚘 242.9 miles round trip
Average 9.1 mph
⛽ Gas: Per gal $2.749 Total $73.37
Trip cost $100.37
‼️BEWARE of the road coming into the RV Camping loop! It’s horribly warped by the Water Tower. You will have to creep over it with the RVs and you can see several scrape marks on the asphalt. The rest of the roads were decent.
There was a little loaner reading library by the restrooms in the RV loop. Take a book, leave a book. 📖
Weather ☀️ 🌬️🌑 (new moon)
Jacket weather, good for a fire
How I felt 😀 Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Would I go back? Yes
💜💜💜 Highlights of this trip💜💜💜
✅ What I did: Relaxed, cooked at the campsite, walked the trails, visited with family
🚶🏻♀️Trails I walked: We hit several trails at a slow pace. Daddy is still trying to get over his vertigo. Mama joined us too.
- Palmetto Interpretive Trail
- San Marcos River Trail-Mossy Cup Spur-Canebrake Spur,
- Ottine Swamp Trail,
- Headquarters Trail. 4.7 miles in all.
🐦 Wildlife I encountered: Deer, squirrels, Barred Owl, Orange-crowned Warbler, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Chickadee, American Crow, Carolina Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Gotta love the Merlin Bird ID app!)
📚 What I learned: The CCC workers took pride in their work. Many of their structures are still standing. The Water Tower works on water pressure, not electricity. The deer are not scared of humans.
🤣 A laughable moment: Jokes around the campfire and trying to get everyone together for pictures
😮 A surprising moment: Hearing the Barred Owl so close to the campsite
🛍️ My favorite souvenir: Photos, Stamps in my books, hiking stick medallion, Christmas ornament
Outside the Park
🛒 Where I shopped: Buc-ee’s!
📌 Stops along the way: Buc-ee’s! Are you noticing a theme here?
Even the Beaver is taller than Mama! 🤣
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