Horseback Riding

Iron Horse RV Resort

49 RV Sites, 2 RV Rental + Campsite Packages

Iron Horse RV Resort in Weimar, Texas, offers 51 full-hookup RV sites on Interstate 10 halfway between San Antonio and Houston, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet. A lazy river, hot tub, outdoor pool, and horse paddocks and pens make this considerably more than a highway stop. Fifty-one sites run in back-in, pull-through, and pull-through buddy configurations — the buddy sites suiting parties traveling together — all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 70 feet, with site WiFi. RV rentals serve guests arriving without equipment. A general store, boutique shop, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The amenity set is unusual for an interstate corridor. A lazy river and outdoor pool anchor the warm months, with a hot tub and sauna alongside and a recreation center for other hours. Horse stalls and paddocks are available — call the park after confirming your RV spot to arrange them, which makes this a genuine option for travelers hauling horses. A pond supports fishing, with horseshoes, golf cart rentals, and planned activities besides. Pets are welcome. The street address is 2049 Interstate 10, Weimar, TX 78962. Daily and weekly rates vary, so ask about current specials when booking. Weimar sits in Colorado County, 90 miles from both San Antonio and Houston, in the coastal prairie and Post Oak Savanna transition country. Columbus's historic downtown and the Czech and German immigrant heritage of the Colorado and Fayette County corridor are close. Reserve ahead for holiday weekends on the I-10 corridor.

from $69/night

Hill City Horse Stop

30 RV Sites

At 7000 Hill City Highway in Tolar, Texas—in Hood County near Granbury in the horse country of north-central Texas where the Weatherford-to-Stephenville corridor carries the highest concentration of horse farms, quarter horse trainers, cutting horse operations, and equestrian events in the state that the American Quarter Horse Association's Fort Worth headquarters designates as the horse capital of the world—Hill City Horse Stop provides 30 full hookup pull-through RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service alongside a 24-stall horse barn, a full-size lit outdoor arena, a tack room, a round pen, and the laundry facilities that the equestrian traveler specifically needs on a 40-acre property built from the ground up as an RV-and-horse dual-use facility within 60 minutes of Dallas-Fort Worth. The 24 horse stalls and the lit outdoor arena are the amenities that make Hill City Horse Stop specifically useful to the 15-to-20 percent of Texas RV travelers who move with horses and have historically struggled to find campgrounds that accommodate both the rig and the animals at the same address. Thirty full hookup pull-through RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer connections accommodate the full range of rig sizes from standard 30-foot travel trailers through the longest diesel pushers with horse trailer combinations that equestrian travelers require on the same pad. Pull-through configuration eliminates the backing precision that combined RV-and-horse-trailer setups require at back-in sites. On-site laundry handles the extended-stay practical requirement that equestrian travelers—who accumulate horse-related laundry at a different rate than standard campers—specifically value at a facility that understands the guest's complete itinerary. Twenty-four individual horse stalls provide the covered, enclosed overnight accommodation for horses at the standard stall spacing and construction that equestrian travelers expect from a purpose-built facility. A full-size, lit outdoor arena provides the training and exercise space for horses at Hill City's equestrian facility, accommodating loping, pattern work, and the warm-up training that horses traveling to competitions require before entering a show pen. A tack room for equipment storage and a round pen for isolated training or young horse work complete the equestrian infrastructure. Hood County's horse culture is embedded in the Granbury-to-Stephenville corridor that runs through the property's general region, with the Granbury area's cutting horse ranches, the Stephenville rodeo circuit, and the equestrian communities of Weatherford and Aledo to the northeast concentrating more working horse operations per square mile than any comparable geography in Texas outside the AQHA's Fort Worth metropolitan core. Glen Rose—15 minutes south—provides the Dinosaur Valley State Park and Fossil Rim Wildlife Center access that makes a Hood County camping trip multifaceted for travelers whose itinerary includes both the equestrian and the natural heritage experience. Fort Worth—45 minutes northeast on US 377 and Interstate 820—provides the Stockyards National Historic District's Western Heritage programming, the Kimbell Art Museum's internationally recognized collection in Louis Kahn's masterwork building, and the Bass Performance Hall's performing arts season as the metropolitan cultural anchor accessible from the Tolar base camp. Hill City Horse Stop is open year-round in Hood County's temperate north-central Texas climate. The spring horse show season from March through June and the fall cutting and reining competition season from September through November drive the highest equestrian travel demand through the region. Reserve early for spring show season weekends, book the stalls in advance for the horse count, and let Hill City Highway's 40 acres deliver what the Texas horse country corridor makes available when the RV park and the equestrian facility occupy the same well-designed address.

Cora's Cabins (Savannahs Events)

5 Cabins

On the 170-acre Flyin H Ranch in Tyler, Texas—the Smith County city that serves as the commercial and cultural capital of East Texas in the piney woods landscape of the Pineywoods ecoregion—Cora's Cabins at Savannah's Events provides rustic cabin vacation rentals and a full-service wedding and events venue across a vast private ranch property where the East Texas landscape of loblolly pines, hardwood bottomlands, and the rolling terrain of the Piney Woods creates the natural beauty that makes 170 acres outside Tyler feel genuinely remote while remaining close to the Rose Capital of the United States and the full cultural and recreational infrastructure of a thriving East Texas city. For the cabin getaway that combines genuine rural character with Tyler's accessibility, the Flyin H Ranch delivers. Rustic cabin rentals on the 170-acre property blend the natural surroundings of the East Texas ranch landscape with the comfort accommodations that make a multi-night stay genuinely restful—cabins positioned to take advantage of the property's scale and the wooded terrain that the pine and hardwood forest creates across the acreage. The surrounding 170 acres provide the walking, wildlife watching, and the genuine sense of rural East Texas that a small property cannot replicate, and the Savannah's Events all-inclusive wedding and events venue capacity of up to 300 guests in a breathtaking scenic setting creates the events dimension that makes Cora's Cabins a destination for both leisure guests and occasion celebrations alike. The property's ranch character and the natural surroundings serve as the backdrop for the weddings, corporate events, and private celebrations that the venue accommodates in the East Texas landscape. Tyler sits in Smith County in the East Texas Piney Woods, the region's unofficial capital and the city that built its identity and economy on the rose culture that the sandy, acidic soils of the Pineywoods ecoregion support with exceptional productivity. Tyler is the Rose Capital of the United States—the city produces approximately 20% of the nation's commercial rose crop, and the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden maintains 38,000 rose bushes in 600 varieties in the largest publicly maintained rose garden in the United States, free to visit year-round and at its most spectacular from April through November. The Texas Rose Festival each October draws visitors from across the state to Tyler for the rose show, the parades, and the coronation ceremony that has defined East Texas social culture since 1933. Tyler State Park, within the city limits, preserves 985 acres of the Pineywoods ecosystem with a 64-acre swimming lake, fishing access, camping, and the shortleaf pine and hardwood forest that represents the eastern Texas woodland at its most characteristic. Lake Tyler, the city's reservoir system, provides the bass fishing, boating, and water recreation that East Texas lakes deliver year-round in the mild climate that Smith County's position south of the frost belt creates. The Caldwell Zoo, one of the premier mid-size zoos in Texas with naturalistic exhibits across 85 acres, adds the family attraction dimension to Tyler's visitor infrastructure. Cora's Cabins operates year-round on the Flyin H Ranch property in Smith County's East Texas climate, where the mild winters keep the Pineywoods accessible through the deer hunting season from October through January and the spring wildflower season from March through May produces the dogwood blooms, redbud, and the forest floor wildflowers that make the East Texas woods spectacular. The Rose Festival weekend in October creates peak demand in the Tyler accommodation market. Reserve your cabin at Cora's Cabins and let the Flyin H Ranch's 170 acres, Tyler's rose culture, and the East Texas Piney Woods deliver the rural Texas cabin experience in the setting that Smith County's landscape has been quietly perfecting for generations.

from $95/night