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Buda Place

79 RV Sites

Buda Place in Buda, Texas, offers 79 full-hookup RV sites on 30 acres along Interstate 35, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet. Lakeside premium and luxury lakeside back-ins join premium pull-throughs and a color-coded Boulevard East category, ten minutes from downtown Austin. Seventy-nine sites span Boulevard East back-in, lakeside premium back-in, luxury lakeside back-in, premium pull-through, and standard pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 60 feet. Cabins round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side, and the bathrooms draw specific praise in guest reviews — a hotel-quality standard that is genuinely unusual at a campground. A pet washing station is on site. An outdoor pool and hot tub anchor the warm months, with a catch-and-release fishing lake, fishing pier, and beach on the property supporting paddle boats, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, and boating. Mini-golf, horseshoes, ping pong, walking trails, a clubhouse, barn, dog park, and on-site dining fill the rest, with strong stargazing and birding across the acreage. Pets are welcome. Buda sits 0.2 miles off I-35 in Hays County, five minutes from a downtown that has kept its small-town character against the suburban push south from Austin. Doc's Drive-In Theatre is two miles away, with Main St. Pizzeria and Beer Garden and MudBugs both two miles and Willie's Joint bar and grill three. Austin event weekends drive demand hard. Reserve well ahead.

from $61/night

Westbrook RV & Tiny House Park

150 RV Sites

Westbrook RV & Tiny House Park in Elgin, Texas, offers 150 full-hookup RV and tiny home sites across 23 acres, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet. An outdoor pool, pond, walking trails, and business center serve the closest camping property to downtown Elgin. One hundred fifty sites accommodate either a tiny home or an RV, carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with picnic tables. The combined designation is unusual and reflects what the property is — one of the most comprehensively developed RV and tiny home communities in the corridor rather than a conventional campground. Cabins round out the lodging. A laundry and business center handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with a pond supporting fishing, walking trails, hiking, and a dog park across the 23 acres. The dark rural sky makes for good stargazing, and picnicking areas fill the grounds. Pets are welcome. Elgin sits in Bastrop County between Austin to the west and the Samsung semiconductor facility in Taylor to the north — a position that has made it a significant node in one of the fastest-growing corridors in the country. That drives a substantial long-stay and workforce market alongside travelers. Demand runs year-round rather than seasonally, driven by the corridor's growth as much as tourism. Spring and fall deliver the most comfortable Central Texas conditions. Call ahead for extended stays.

from $35/night

Lake Falling Star RV Resort

40 RV Sites

On 44 acres of privately developed lakefront in Dale, Texas—in Caldwell County where the family-purchased Tinney Lake has been transformed over 17 years into Lake Falling Star RV Resort, a quiet, clean, and extraordinarily beautiful property whose sunset views over the water, star-filled rural night skies, and the pond-and-wildlife character of the Central Texas landscape create the stress-relief experience that the resort's description identifies as its core purpose—Lake Falling Star offers full hookup sites, a pergola-shaded pool, granite walkways along the waterfront, a laundry facility overlooking the lake, and the bird watching, sunset watching, and night sky observation that the Caldwell County rural environment enables for guests who are 30 minutes southeast of Austin and looking for the antidote to it. Lockhart's legendary BBQ is 10 miles north. Full hookup sites on the 44-acre lakefront property provide the RV infrastructure alongside the amenities that a family-created resort builds specifically around the experiences that matter most to its owners—the pergola over the pool that keeps afternoon shade where it's needed during the Texas heat, the granite walkways along the water's edge that make the lakefront accessible in the comfortable way a well-maintained resort provides, and the laundry room positioned to overlook the lake while the wash cycles run in the time-efficient multitasking that extended-stay guests appreciate. Clean bathrooms and showers complete the daily infrastructure for the overnight and weekly guests who use Dale as a convenient Austin-adjacent escape. The bird watching that Tinney Lake's aquatic habitat supports—the herons, egrets, kingfishers, and the songbird variety that the lake's wooded margins attract—provides the natural recreation that the description specifically notes as a campground feature. Dale sits in Caldwell County on the Post Oak Savanna ecoregion's blackland prairie edge, in the rolling terrain between the Balcones Escarpment's limestone hills and the coastal plains' expansive flatlands. The Post Oak Savanna's characteristic landscape—scattered post oak and live oak on sandy loam soils between the clay-dominant blackland prairie and the sandy-soiled East Texas Pineywoods—creates the gently rolling, tree-dotted terrain that the Lake Falling Star property occupies in Caldwell County's agricultural landscape. The rural darkness and the low elevation's wide-open sky create the stargazing conditions that the resort's description elevates to a primary amenity alongside the lake sunsets. Lockhart, 10 miles north on US-183, holds the title of BBQ Capital of Texas—a designation the Texas Legislature formalized in 1999 acknowledging Lockhart's extraordinary concentration of generational Central Texas barbecue institutions. Kreuz Market's shoulder clod and ribs served on butcher paper without sauce in the no-fork tradition of Central Texas barbecue, Smitty's Market's pit-smoked brisket in the original 1948 market building, and Black's Barbecue's 80-year family operation create the pilgrimage inventory that BBQ travelers make specifically to Lockhart on the Central Texas Barbecue Trail. Austin, 30 miles northwest on SH-130, provides the full metropolitan cultural experience when the lakeshore serenity calls for a day of live music, tacos, and Sixth Street. Lake Falling Star operates year-round in Caldwell County's Central Texas climate, where the spring and fall months provide the most pleasant outdoor conditions for lakeside relaxation and the summer heat is managed by the pergola pool shade and the lake breezes that the water body generates. The winter months are mild and bring the migratory waterfowl to Tinney Lake in the duck and goose populations that make Central Texas lake birding rewarding from November through February. Reserve your lakefront site at Lake Falling Star and let the Caldwell County sunsets, the star-filled rural skies, Lockhart's BBQ, and the 44-acre private lake deliver the quiet, unhurried Texas lake stay that the resort's 17-year family investment has created specifically for guests who need it.

from $55/night

Sun Outdoors Lake Travis

55 RV Sites, 9 Cottages

Sun Outdoors Lake Travis in Austin, Texas, offers 55 full-hookup RV sites and nine cottages three miles from the lake, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted up to 90 feet. Premium back-in, premium pull-through, deluxe, standard, and pull-in categories join a pool, hot tub, spa, fitness center, and mini-golf on Hudson Bend Road. Fifty-five sites span standard back-in, deluxe back-in, premium back-in, premium pull-thru, and pull-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 90 feet, with picnic tables and BBQ pits. Ninety feet is exceptional for the Hill Country, where terrain usually limits length, and accommodates the longest coaches with a tow. Nine cottages round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, a business center, recycling, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. The property was formerly La Hacienda RV Resort. An outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and spa anchor the property, with a fitness center, clubhouse, game room, mini-golf, horseshoes, walking trails, a playground, community fire pit, and dog park filling the grounds. Fishing and swimming run nearby, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Lake Travis is one of Central Texas's premier recreation lakes, and the western Austin corridor keeps the Hill Country character intact. Summer lake season drives the heaviest demand, with SXSW and ACL creating sharp spikes. Reserve well ahead.

from $74/night

San Marcos River Resort

186 RV Sites, 18 Cabins, 21 Tent Sites, 3 Treehouses

San Marcos River Resort in Fentress, Texas, offers 186 full-hookup RV sites, 21 cabin and treehouse units, and 21 tent sites among pecan trees on the San Marcos River, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet. Covered Elite, Prime Elite, and Riverview Elite categories join standard back-in and pull-through tiers, with a pool, mini-golf, and fitness center. One hundred eighty-six sites span covered Elite, Elite back-in, Elite pull-thru, Prime Elite, Riverview Elite, and standard categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The covered Elite sites put a shade structure over the pad — a real benefit through a Central Texas summer — and Riverview is worth requesting. Twenty-one cabins and treehouses and 21 tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. RV and tent check-in is 1pm, cabins 3pm, with checkout at noon for everything. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with mini-golf, a fitness center, clubhouse, sports courts, basketball, horseshoes, walking trails, a playground, pavilion, and dog park filling the grounds. The river carries swimming, fishing, canoeing, and kayaking. The San Marcos is one of the clearest and most consistently beautiful rivers in Texas, spring-fed and cool year-round. The resort was known for decades as Leisure Resort. Summer river season drives demand hard. Reserve well ahead.

from $51/night

Hillco Hub

Welcome to HillCo Hub in Wimberley, Texas. We offer back-in RV sites and pull-through RV sites and will soon offer casitas in the heart of Texas Hill Country. Each of our RV sites has full hookups, shade trees, and plenty of open space. All of our accommodations are situated on 15 pristine acres just outside Wimberley, the perfect location to enjoy a weekend escape, romantic getaway, or family vacation. We're so excited to open our property to guests starting in April 2024! We know you'll enjoy the quiet, peaceful serenity of this land and all that the Wimberley area has to offer!

Arrow RV Park

54 RV Sites

On 30 acres of tree-covered land along Hwy 90 in Luling, Texas, Arrow RV Park offers 54 full hookup sites with scenic hiking trails along the property perimeter and quick access to the heart of South Texas between San Antonio and Houston. Luling sits at an agricultural and petrochemical crossroads—famous for its watermelons, its old downtown, and the Buc-ee's that defines its highway presence—and Arrow RV Park provides a peaceful, wooded alternative to the open-lot parks common in this stretch of Central Texas. For long-haul travelers and workers stationed in the region, Arrow's combination of shade, space, and full hookups is exactly what the road calls for. All 54 sites come with full hookups including 30/50-amp service, water, and sewer, and high-speed internet keeps remote workers and streaming households connected throughout their stay. Coin-operated laundry handles the week's accumulation, and the park's welcoming policy toward pets makes it a natural stop for traveling families. The 30 acres of wooded grounds provide genuine shade rare in South Texas's summer sun, and the perimeter hiking trails give guests a chance to walk off the road miles in a setting that feels more naturalistic than the typical highway RV park. The park's friendly management and well-maintained grounds have earned it strong return-visitor loyalty. Luling's Peach-Watermelo Capital identity runs deeper than the roadside billboards suggest—the Luling Watermelon Thump festival each June has been running since 1954 and draws tens of thousands of visitors for seed-spitting contests, watermelon queens, and the communal celebration of a crop that put this stretch of the Guadalupe River valley on the map. The town's downtown preserves a collection of early 20th-century commercial architecture and the quirky painted pumpjacks that have become Luling's most unexpected tourist attraction. The surrounding agricultural landscape of cotton fields, pecan orchards, and river bottomland gives the area a genuinely rural character that feels increasingly rare in central Texas. Palmetto State Park, less than 10 miles from Arrow, protects a remarkable pocket of tropical habitat along the San Marcos River—dwarf palmettos crowding the creek banks in a plant community more at home in Louisiana bayou country than Central Texas. The park offers swimming, tubing, fishing, and canoeing in a setting that invariably surprises first-time visitors with its lush, unexpected character. The Guadalupe and San Marcos Rivers are both within easy reach for kayaking and tubing, and the Hill Country cities of New Braunfels, San Marcos, and Seguin provide full services and additional recreation within 30 miles. Arrow RV Park draws primarily through its combination of shade, full hookups, and convenient location along the Highway 90 and I-10 corridor. Spring and fall offer the most comfortable temperatures for exploring this stretch of Central Texas, while summer visitors appreciate the wooded canopy that keeps sites shaded even in August. The park's proximity to both San Antonio and Houston makes it a logical overnight stop for coast-to-coast travelers and a practical extended-stay option for workers in the region. Book your shaded full-hookup site at Arrow RV Park and let Luling's quiet, tree-covered acres provide the reset your road trip needs.

from $50/night

Krause Springs

18 RV Sites, 6 Tent Sites

Krause Springs in Spicewood, Texas, is one of the Texas Hill Country's most beloved and most enduring swimming and camping destinations — a 115-acre property owned by the Krause family for over five decades in Burnet County, where 32 natural springs feed both a manmade swimming pool and the natural pools of Cypress Creek's spring-run in a camping environment that combines the 45-degree spring water's clarity and cold with the cypress shade, the Hill Country cedar landscape, and the swimming hole character that Texas families have been making the Spicewood pilgrimage to enjoy across multiple generations of family camping tradition. The Krause family's long stewardship of the property has preserved the springs' natural character against the development pressure that has transformed much of the Lake Travis corridor surrounding them. Camping sites alongside the natural swimming pools, the manmade pool, and the 115-acre property's varied terrain give guests the full Krause Springs experience — the ability to camp overnight at the springs and swim morning and evening in the cold spring water that the cypress-shaded pools and the Cypress Creek spring run maintain at a consistent temperature regardless of the Hill Country's summer heat represents the specific family camping tradition that the Krause property has sustained for decades. The spring-fed pools' 45-degree temperature gives the swimming a refreshing contrast to the 95-degree summer air that Hill Country camping in July and August consistently provides. Pets are welcome. The spring system's 32 individual springs feed into the natural pools and Cypress Creek in a landscape that the overhanging cypress canopy and the limestone karst topography of the Hill Country define — the spring's origin in the Edwards Plateau aquifer system that underlies the central Texas Hill Country gives it the consistent water quality, temperature, and flow rate that surface-water features cannot maintain during summer drought conditions. The natural pools' graduated depth, the travertine terracing of the spring ledges, and the specific visual clarity of the karst spring water give the Krause Springs experience the character that distinguishes natural spring swimming from reservoir or river swimming. Pedernales Falls State Park, 20 miles east of Krause Springs in Blanco County, extends the day-trip range from the Spicewood spring campsite into the Pedernales River's limestone waterfall staircase and swimming holes that sustain another signature Hill Country water recreation experience. The park's Pedernales Falls overlook trail and the river access below the falls give visitors the full Hill Country river character that the spring swimming of Krause Springs complements with a different hydrology and a different scale of river landscape. Lake Travis, immediately east of Spicewood, provides the large-reservoir boating and water sports that the private and commercial marina infrastructure along the lake's north shore sustains for the Austin leisure market. Krause Springs serves guests from spring through fall in Burnet County's temperate Hill Country climate, with the summer swimming season from Memorial Day through Labor Day representing the most concentrated family camping demand from the Austin and San Antonio regional markets that have used the springs as a traditional summer cooling destination for generations. The spring's consistent water temperature makes it specifically rewarding in the hottest weeks of July and August when the 45-degree pool water provides the most dramatically refreshing contrast to the surrounding air temperature — a natural refrigeration that Austin-area families specifically plan the Spicewood trip around. Reserve camping spaces well ahead for summer weekends, when the Krause Springs camping availability fills from the Austin area family market that has made the property a multi-generational Hill Country summer tradition.

from $17/night

Camp Fimfo Texas Hill Country

217 RV Sites, 213 Cabins, 30 Tent Sites

Camp Fimfo Texas Hill Country in New Braunfels offers 217 full-hookup RV sites, 213 cabins, and 30 tent sites across 450 acres on the Guadalupe River, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 50 feet behind a gated entrance, open all year. Red Carpet and Preferred Red Carpet categories join a water park, spa, mini-golf, and jumping pillow. Two hundred seventeen sites run in Red Carpet back-in, Red Carpet pull-thru, and preferred Red Carpet back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Two hundred thirteen cabins and 30 tent sites make the lodging inventory larger than the RV side. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Cabin check-in is 4pm with checkout at 11am; campsites are 3pm and 1pm. Visitors pay a guest fee. A water park and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a spa alongside. Mini-golf, a jumping pillow, gem mining, inflatable water toys, sports courts, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, corn hole, a craft room, recreation center, clubhouse, golf cart rentals, walking trails, hiking, a playground, pavilion, dog park, on-site dining, a snack bar, and a bar fill the rest, with fishing, live music, and planned activities. The property operates as a wedding venue. Four hundred fifty acres of cypress-lined Guadalupe frontage is the draw, and the property won a 2026 Campspot award. Summer river season drives demand hard. Reserve well ahead.

from $57/night

Mystic Quarry Resort

52 RV Sites, 9 Cabins, 9 Tent Sites, 6 Glamping Sites, 5 Tipis, 15 Tiny Houses

Mystic Quarry Resort in Canyon Lake, Texas, offers 52 full-hookup RV sites, 24 cabin and tiny house units, nine tent sites, and 11 glamping sites and tipis in a former limestone quarry, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Premium pull-through, deluxe back-in, and standard back-in categories join a pool, hot tub, fitness center, and bocce ball. Fifty-two sites run in standard back-in, deluxe back-in, and premium pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Twenty-four cabins and tiny houses, nine tent sites, and 11 glamping sites and tipis make the lodging range genuinely unusual. A general store, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, showers, firewood, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor the property, with a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, game room, billiards, ping pong, bocce ball, volleyball, horseshoes, sports courts, golf cart rentals, walking trails, hiking, biking, a playground, pavilion, and dog park filling the grounds. A lake and river support fishing, boating, and swimming. The quarry is the differentiator — vertical limestone walls around clear water, with swimming and cliff jumping in a setting no purpose-built resort could replicate. Canyon Lake and the Guadalupe are minutes away. Summer river and lake season drives demand hard. Reserve well ahead.

from $30/night

Summit Vacation

66 RV Sites, 43 Cabins, 5 Tent Sites, 4 Wagons

Summit Vacation and RV Resort in New Braunfels, Texas, offers 66 full-hookup RV sites, 43 cabins, five tent sites, and four wagons on River Road along the Guadalupe, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted up to 88 feet. Deluxe pull-through and full-hookup back-in categories join a water park, marina, hot tub, mini-golf, and fitness center. Sixty-six sites run in deluxe pull-through and full hookup back-in categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 88 feet, with picnic tables. Eighty-eight feet is exceptional for a river property in the Hill Country and accommodates the longest coaches with a tow. Forty-three cabins, five tent sites, and four wagons make the lodging range unusually broad. A laundry, dump station, and showers handle the practical side. A water park and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a hot tub and sauna alongside. A marina, lake, and river open the water for boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, and swimming. Mini-golf, a fitness center, clubhouse, sports courts, tennis, volleyball, basketball, billiards, shuffleboard, horseshoes, walking trails, biking, a playground, pavilion, dog park, on-site dining, and a bar fill the rest. The property operates as a wedding venue. River Road is the heart of the Guadalupe tubing corridor, where the spring-fed current draws more than a million visitors a year, with Gruene's historic dance hall and Landa Park close. Summer river season drives demand hard, and River Road fills. Reserve well ahead for June through August.

from $36/night

Cedar Bend RV Park

30 RV Sites

On 10 acres in Bertram, Texas—the Burnet County Hill Country community where the historic 1912 Bertram Depot once served as a stop on the Austin and Northwestern Railroad and still serves as the turnaround point for the Hill Country Flyer steam train excursion that departs Cedar Park and carries passengers through the live oak and cedar landscape of Burnet County's Hill Country—Cedar Bend RV Park offers 30 full hookup sites with WiFi, laundry, walking trails, a community fire pit, and dog park in a peaceful, cedar-and-oak setting that positions guests in the convergence of the Hill Country, wine country, and Highland Lakes country that the Burnet County landscape uniquely provides. For Austin-area escapes and Texas road-trippers threading the Highland Lakes chain, Cedar Bend puts it all within reach. Full hookup sites with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer service on private 10 acres provide the comfortable RV infrastructure alongside WiFi connectivity, coin laundry, clean bathrooms, a community fire pit and picnic tables, and walking trails through the cedar and live oak terrain. The dog park accommodates traveling pets in a Hill Country environment where the surrounding landscape—with its rocky terrain, cedar thorns, and the rattlesnake awareness that serious Texas outdoors travel requires—makes a fenced space genuinely preferable to off-leash roaming. A library and personal mailbox service extend the amenity set for extended-stay guests who use Cedar Bend as a longer-term Hill Country base. Bertram sits in Burnet County approximately 45 miles northwest of Austin and 15 miles east of Burnet in the Highland Lakes corridor where the Colorado River's impoundment chain creates Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, and Lake Travis in the sequence of Hill Country reservoirs that provide the most concentrated water recreation inventory in Central Texas. The Highland Lakes' bass fishing, boating, swimming, and the limestone-canyon scenery that the Hill Country's geology creates around every reservoir provides the day-trip recreation infrastructure for Cedar Bend guests who want the lake experience alongside the Hill Country character. The Hill Country Flyer steam excursion train, departing from the Cedar Park station and stopping at the historic Bertram Depot, provides one of the most authentically nostalgic Hill Country experiences—a round trip through the oak and cedar landscape aboard vintage 1950s coaches behind a heritage steam locomotive, with the Burnet terminus offering the option to explore the historic Burnet square and the Globe Theatre, the 1935 Art Deco movie palace that hosts live music and film screenings in a restored venue that exemplifies small-town Texas's commitment to its cultural infrastructure. The Texas Wine Trail's Hill Country wineries—concentrated between Fredericksburg, Llano, and Marble Falls—are accessible within an hour from Bertram. Cedar Bend operates year-round in Burnet County's Hill Country climate, where the spring wildflower season from late February through April produces the bluebonnet and Indian paintbrush displays that draw photographers and weekend travelers from across Texas to the Hill Country roadsides. Summer brings the Highland Lakes' water recreation to peak activity, and fall offers the Hill Country's golden light and the comfortable temperatures that make October the most pleasant camping month in the region. Reserve your site at Cedar Bend and let Bertram's Hill Country, the Flyer train, the Highland Lakes, and the Texas wine country deliver the complete Central Texas experience from a ten-acre cedar grove.

from $50/night