I just send some camping information to a friend. I'll copy most of it here. We use to love to camp, but now, I have no desire to get out there and rough it. I want my AC and my toilet and comfy bed. Campgrounds: Cagle on Lake Conroe:Â
www.fs.usda.gov/reca rea/texas/recreation /hiking/recarea/?rec id=30284&am  If you go back to home, it will give you lots of camping opportunities that are not State Park Related.
Here is the site to check out all the State Parks of Texas.Â
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /state-parks/My favorite are Guadalupe State Park, Perdernales Falls State Park, Garner
State Park, Balmorhea State Park, but there are so many and we have
been to most of them. Dinosaur Valley State Park has dinosaur footprints that kids can sit in and we
stayed in Lake Whitney State Park so we could do the whole area.
In the fall, Lost Maples Natural Area is so beautiful with the
changing of the colors - the smell in the air was unbelievable. No
camping there, but often we would find a central area to camp and drive
to the rest.Â
On Livingston, there is Lake Livingston State Park which use
to have very nice screened shelters to reserve. It is probably
difficult to get one on the weekends, but not so difficult
during the week.Â
Also there is Wolf Creek Park
www.trinityra.org/in dex.htmÂ
Go to the tab under recreation & see what they have. This use to
be a private park, now I guess the Trinity River Authority has acquired
it.
And I found one I have never heard of that you might check out... Browders MarinaÂ
www.browdersmarina.c om/Another quaint park is Martin Dies State Park near Beaumont -
we use to camp there often - the crappie fishing was fabulous back in
the day.  Brazos Bend State Park is great for a days outing - it has
lots of alligators...or it use to. But the beauty of that park is the
large (no huge) oak trees. It may have changed since city campers took it over
but it use to be so out in the middle of nowhere.Â
Galveston State Park is nice, but I hate the beach, any kind of beach,
so I only used it to take the kids for their annual beach visit. 4951