Horseback Riding

Lone Ranger RV Park & Lodge

23 RV Sites

In the heart of the Palo Pinto Mountain country of north-central Texas, Lone Ranger RV Park & Lodge brings a genuine sense of character and history to the RV camping experience. Located in the small West Texas community of Ranger, the property features restored 1930s lodges, a resort-style pool with LED lighting, waterfalls, and fountains, authentic vintage neon signs that light up the Texas night sky, an on-site bar and cafe operation with Gulf Burgers and Kemosabe Coffee & Wine Bar, and specialized horse pens that accommodate guests traveling with equine companions. It's a destination with real personality, and that personality is distinctly Texan. Full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service accommodate a range of rig sizes, while the restored 1930s one-bedroom lodges offer a turnkey alternative with kitchen, air conditioning, and WiFi—sleeping four guests in genuine vintage character that no new-build lodge can replicate. The resort pool surrounded by a large deck with lounge chairs and sunset views is one of the standout features, and the adjacent Tonto's Candy & Ice Cream stand and Kemosabe Coffee & Wine Bar keep poolside refreshments handled. A lobby with a stone fireplace, pool table, board games, books, and WiFi creates a comfortable social gathering space inside, and a community fire pit, wedding venue, outdoor pavilion, and library round out the amenities. Horse pens with dedicated RV hookups serve the equestrian traveling community, a niche this part of Texas serves particularly well. The Palo Pinto Mountain landscape around Ranger provides the rugged, oak-and-cedar hill country scenery that defines west-central Texas at its most appealing. The ridgelines visible from the park have a particular character at dusk—silhouetted against wide Texas skies with the light fading in oranges and reds across the horizon—and stargazing from a dark spot at the edge of the property is outstanding. The community of Ranger carries a fascinating oil boom history from the early twentieth century when a major petroleum discovery briefly made it one of the most talked-about towns in Texas, and the old downtown preserves some of that architectural legacy. Possum Kingdom Lake—one of Texas's most beautiful reservoirs, known for its crystal-clear water and dramatic limestone bluffs—is the primary nearby water destination, easily reachable from the park for a day of boating, swimming, or fishing. Nearby wine and craft beer tasting operations have established themselves in the Palo Pinto country, adding a culinary dimension to the regional outing. Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, the newest addition to the Texas State Parks system, brings additional hiking access, and the broader Fort Worth and DFW area lies within a comfortable drive for city day trips when the mood strikes. Lone Ranger RV Park & Lodge is open year-round and sees its strongest demand during warmer months when the pool, the outdoor spaces, and the proximity to Possum Kingdom Lake combine most effectively. Whether you're traveling with horses, looking for a lodge with genuine personality, headed to Possum Kingdom, or simply searching for a destination in the Palo Pinto country with real character, Lone Ranger delivers something difficult to replicate. Book your site and settle into a side of Texas most travelers never find.

from $45/night

Soggy Bottom Trails Pub & Campground

56 RV Sites

The concept behind Soggy Bottom Trails Pub & Campground in Wanette, Oklahoma, is genuinely uncommon in the campground industry: 120 acres of trail-laced South Canadian River land with tent sites, full-hookup RV spots, and comfortable cabins — combined with a full on-site pub serving beer, wine, spirits, and a kitchen that actually delivers real food after a day of hiking. The result is a destination campground in the Pottawatomie County countryside that draws guests specifically for the combination of trail access, river setting, and on-site hospitality that most outdoor properties are unwilling or unable to provide. The property's 120 acres front the South Canadian River near the historic Byars-Wanette Railroad bridge, and the terrain is developed with multiple hiking and trail-riding routes that run through diverse riparian and upland terrain. RV sites include full hookup connections, tent sites are spread through natural areas of the grounds, and cabin accommodations provide solid-wall comfort for guests who want the trail-and-pub experience without sleeping in a tent. River access for swimming, wading, and fishing is available directly from the property, and the natural setting — trees, wildlife, and the South Canadian's sandy-bottomed character — provides the kind of outdoor immersion that the pub and cabins are specifically designed to celebrate. The South Canadian River in this stretch of central Oklahoma runs through a landscape of red clay banks, post oak and blackjack oak uplands, and the meandering floodplain character typical of Oklahoma's river systems. Wildlife viewing on the property includes white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and the diverse bird community supported by the riparian corridor, and the trail network designed specifically for Soggy Bottom guests gives the 120 acres an intentional outdoor structure that rewards multiple days of exploration rather than a single pass-through. The regional outdoor attractions extend the activity options well beyond the property itself. Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Sulphur — with its natural mineral springs, travertine creek swimming, Lake of the Arbuckles, and camping within a National Park Service site — is within driving range and provides a fascinating complement to the South Canadian River character of Soggy Bottom. Turner Falls Park in Davis, featuring Oklahoma's largest waterfall and swimming at the base of the falls, is another anchor destination in the broader south-central Oklahoma outdoor corridor. Lake Thunderbird State Park near Norman adds boating and fishing options to the regional day-trip roster. Soggy Bottom Trails Pub & Campground is an outdoor destination that operates most effectively as a multi-night stay — one night is barely enough to try the pub, walk the trails, and get a sense of the river. The spring and fall seasons deliver ideal trail conditions and the most comfortable temperatures for the full South Canadian River experience. Summer stays are active with river swimming and evening pub gatherings under the Oklahoma sky. Reserve cabins and premium RV sites well ahead for spring weekends, when trail riding and hiking demand across the region peaks and the property's distinctive character draws guests from across Oklahoma and beyond.

from $20/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.

Weeping Willow RV Park

Conveniently accessed from Interstate 20 at Exit 263 in Trent, Texas, positioned between Sweetwater and Abilene in the rolling post-oak and mesquite savanna of Nolan County, Weeping Willow RV Park offers a quiet country retreat with a genuine Texas rural atmosphere for both overnight I-20 travelers and guests looking for a comfortable full-hookup base in the open-sky cattle country west of Abilene. The park's distance from urban ambient light makes it a genuinely dark-sky location for guests who want to observe the full star fields that define nighttime in west Texas, and the property's quiet country character gives it an unhurried atmosphere appropriate to guests who want to decompress from highway travel rather than arrive at a busy commercial campground. Full hookup sites with electrical, water, and sewer service accommodate big rigs without the maneuvering constraints common at compact campground layouts, and the park's amenities include clean restrooms and showers, laundry facilities, a dog park, and horse paddocks that make it one of the few campgrounds in the Abilene area equipped to accommodate guests traveling with horses alongside their RV. The Wi-Fi infrastructure supports guests who need connectivity during an extended stay, and the property's pet-friendly and equestrian-accommodation combination gives it a practical appeal for the substantial population of Texas travelers who move horses between events and need proper overnight equestrian facilities. Abilene, approximately 25 miles east of the park, anchors the regional day-trip roster with a range of cultural and heritage attractions that give the city more visitor substance than its size might suggest. Frontier Texas!, a high-tech history museum using holographic presentations to interpret the settlement of west Texas in the frontier era, is consistently recognized as one of the more creatively executed frontier heritage experiences in the state. The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Paramount Theatre, and the museums associated with Abilene Christian University and Hardin-Simmons University extend the city's cultural profile. Dyess Air Force Base, home to B-1B Lancer bombers and a heritage aircraft park, operates an open-air museum visible from the highway. The Sweetwater area to the west is home to the annual Sweetwater World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup—an early March event that draws tens of thousands of visitors for a celebration of western heritage that is unique in scale and character to the Texas plains culture. Lake Sweetwater and Lake Abilene State Park provide regional fishing and outdoor recreation access for guests who want water-based activity beyond the highway corridor. The Big Country landscape of Nolan and Taylor Counties, defined by windmills, mesquite flats, and oil field infrastructure, represents a west Texas visual experience distinct from the Hill Country terrain to the south and the Panhandle plains to the north. Weeping Willow RV Park is open year-round, with the west Texas climate delivering warm and dry conditions across most of the calendar. Spring and fall are the most comfortable seasons for outdoor activity in the Abilene area, with summers bringing the intense heat characteristic of the Texas plains and winters occasionally delivering cold fronts that sweep down from the Panhandle. The park's I-20 positioning makes it equally suited to a single overnight stop during a cross-country road trip and a multi-night base for regional exploration, and the horse paddock availability makes it a practical choice for guests covering the Texas show and rodeo circuit with horses in tow.

Lake Carl Blackwell

71 RV Sites, 9 Cabins, 60 Tent Sites

Lake Carl Blackwell in Stillwater, Oklahoma, offers 71 full-hookup RV sites, nine cabins, and 60 tent sites on a 3,370-acre reservoir, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 80 feet. Beaver Cove and Huntsmeadow back-in and pull-through categories join a beach, boat ramp, disc golf course, and golf cart rentals. Seventy-one sites span Beaver Cove back-in, Beaver Cove pull-through, Huntsmeadow back-in, and Hunts Meadow pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with fire pits and picnic tables, sized to 80 feet. Naming the loops rather than numbering tiers makes the property easier to picture, and 80 feet accommodates the longest coaches with a tow. Accessible sites are available. Nine cabins and 60 tent sites round out the lodging — a substantial tent inventory. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. A beach and boat ramp open the lake for boating, canoeing, kayaking, and fishing, with a disc golf course, sports courts, volleyball, golf cart rentals, walking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, a playground, pavilion, and picnicking filling the rest. Birding across the reservoir is productive, and a golf course is nearby. The land is owned and operated by Oklahoma State University — the only major lake in the United States under direct university management. That institutional stewardship shows in how carefully the shoreline and facilities are kept, and Stillwater is minutes east. Summer lake season and OSU football weekends drive the sharpest demand. Reserve well ahead for both.

from $25/night