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Plantation Place RV Park

3 RV Sites

Plantation Place RV Park in Sunnyvale, Texas, offers full-hookup pull-through RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 40 feet, on a quiet lake-adjacent property in the eastern Dallas metro. A private lake for fishing, an on-site dining facility, and a pavilion anchor a small campground seven minutes from shopping and restaurants. Pull-through sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 40 feet. This is a small park, so confirm availability rather than arriving on spec. Laundry handles the practical side. Pets are welcome. The private lake is the distinguishing feature, giving guests on-site fishing without leaving the property — uncommon this close to a major metro. An on-site dining facility and pavilion round out the amenities, and the quiet setting is genuinely quiet despite the suburban surroundings. Sunnyvale sits in the eastern Dallas metropolitan area, where Kaufman County's rolling terrain meets the lake recreation of Lake Ray Hubbard and the wider East Texas reservoir network. The park is seven minutes from shopping, restaurants, and movie theaters, which makes it practical for both travelers and longer stays. Directions from I-30 and Bobtown Road (Exit 60): go 1.6 miles south on Bobtown Road, then a quarter mile west on Barnes Bridge Road to 345 Barnes Bridge Road, entering on the right. The park operates through the North Texas season, serving travelers on the I-20 and US-80 corridors alongside longer-stay guests. Spring and fall are the most comfortable — reserve ahead.

from $73/night

Sandy Lake

213 RV Sites

Sandy Lake in Carrollton, Texas, offers 213 full-hookup RV sites 20 minutes from downtown Dallas, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. Standard and cozy full-hookup back-in and pull-through categories join a 24-hour fitness center, outdoor pool, clubhouse, and game room. Two hundred thirteen sites span cozy full hookup, cozy full hookup pull-through, standard full hookup, and standard full hookup pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet. The cozy tier keeps a lower-priced option available for smaller rigs in an expensive metro market. A laundry, propane fills, restrooms, showers, and a self-serve RV wash handle the practical side. The property was formerly Sandy Lake MH & RV Resort. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a 24-hour fitness center, clubhouse, game room, billiards, pavilion, playground, and dog park filling the grounds. Planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. The address is 1915 Sandy Lake Road, in the dense suburban landscape of the Metroplex's mid-Cities corridor. That position is the whole proposition: downtown Dallas is 20 minutes away, AT&T Stadium and Six Flags Over Texas are minutes off in Arlington, and DFW airport is close — which makes this practical for Cowboys and Rangers games, concerts, business travel, and extended stays alike. Demand tracks the DFW event calendar rather than a season, with spring and fall the most comfortable months in North Texas. Reserve well ahead for major game and concert weekends, and ask about monthly rates.

from $70/night

Treetops RV Resort

145 RV Sites

Treetops RV Resort in Arlington, Texas, offers 145 full-hookup RV sites under a canopy of mature oaks, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 55 feet, open all year. Super full-hookup pull-through sites join standard back-in and pull-through categories, with a water park, outdoor pool, fitness center, and concrete patios. One hundred forty-five sites run in standard full hookup, standard full hookup pull-through, and super full hookup pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 55 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The super pull-through tier gives larger rigs the room they need in a park where the tree canopy is part of the appeal. A laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, and personal mailboxes handle the practical side. A water park and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a fitness center, sports courts, basketball, biking, a creek, playground, dog park, and on-site dining filling the grounds. Live music and planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. The address is 1901 West Arbrook Boulevard, and the position is among the most strategically useful in the DFW entertainment corridor — AT&T Stadium, Globe Life Field, Six Flags Over Texas, Hurricane Harbor, and the Epic Waters indoor water park are all minutes away, with Dallas and Fort Worth both within a short drive. Demand tracks the Arlington event calendar rather than a season. Cowboys and Rangers home games, concerts, and summer theme park traffic all tighten availability. Reserve well ahead for event weekends.

from $70/night

Rusted Rail RV Park

1 RV Site

On the eastern fringes of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, in the gently rolling prairie of Kaufman County, Rusted Rail RV Park serves as a well-appointed suburban base camp for travelers who need Dallas access without Dallas prices or traffic. Eighty-six full-hookup sites spread across all-asphalt streets and pads—a detail that eliminates the muddy entry roads and uneven pull-throughs that plague so many metro-adjacent parks—and the 70-foot pad length accommodates even the largest Class A rigs and fifth-wheels without squeezing. The park's proximity to Cedar Creek Lake and the Rusted Rail Golf Resort adds a recreational dimension that elevates this well beyond a highway stopover. Every site features 30/50-amp electrical service, water, and sewer connections on 70-foot asphalt pads that keep rigs clean and level regardless of the season. A children's playground and laundry facilities serve family travelers, and the park's fully pet-friendly policy welcomes dogs of all sizes to the grounds. High-speed Wi-Fi connects throughout the park, making Rusted Rail a comfortable choice for remote workers who need a reliable Dallas-area address for a week or a month. A dog park and picnic area are in development, further rounding out the amenity package for extended-stay residents. The Rusted Rail Golf Resort sits just five minutes from the park entrance—an 18-hole course set in the cedar-dotted Kaufman County landscape that regularly draws players from across the greater Dallas area and provides guests a polished golf experience without a long drive into the city. Cedar Creek Lake, 20 minutes east, spans more than 32,000 acres and offers boating, waterskiing, bass fishing, and a marina community that has attracted a significant vacation-home following from Dallas and Terrell. The lake's largemouth bass population sustains an active tournament fishing circuit that runs throughout the spring and summer months. Downtown Dallas lies roughly 30 miles to the northwest, putting the AT&T Discovery District, the Dallas Museum of Art, and Fair Park within a manageable drive for guests who want a city day without a city hotel bill. Five Points Whiskey Distillery, a craft spirits producer 10 minutes from the park, offers tours and tastings for those who appreciate small-batch American whiskey made from locally sourced grains. The town of Kaufman itself provides a historic courthouse square with local dining, an antique district, and the understated character of a small Texas county seat that rewards a slow afternoon stroll. Kaufman County's mild winters make Rusted Rail a year-round destination that draws both passing travelers and extended-stay residents who appreciate the park's combination of solid infrastructure and metro convenience. Summer weekends see increased activity from Dallas-area families heading to Cedar Creek Lake, making advance reservations advisable for holiday periods. The park's all-asphalt infrastructure makes it particularly appealing during rainy spring months when other area parks struggle with rutted gravel and standing water—a practical advantage that repeat visitors cite as a primary reason to return.

Old Rooster Creek RV Park

Old Rooster Creek RV Park occupies a family-friendly property in Princeton, Texas—a rapidly growing Collin County community about 30 miles northeast of Dallas where the agricultural character of the Blackland Prairie is giving way to the suburban expansion driven by the DFW metropolitan area's relentless outward growth. The park's 52 covered RV sites, event barn, and combination of pet amenities and recreational infrastructure make it a practical choice for both Dallas-area weekend campers and interstate travelers moving through the US-380 and US-75 corridors in northeast Texas. Fifty-two sites—some with side yards with mature trees—provide full hookups with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, sewer, and WiFi, all under covered structures that shade both the vehicles and the outdoor living space from the Texas summer sun. A fitness center, dog park, pet washing station, laundry, bathrooms, and boat storage handle the practical daily and trip-end needs. The park's 2,500-square-foot party barn with a full kitchen, covered patio, and restrooms accommodating up to 200 guests provides private event infrastructure that makes it a venue for reunions, celebrations, and group gatherings alongside the standard RV camping operation. A weekend flea market on Saturdays and Sundays generates on-site activity and browsing entertainment during the primary camping days. Princeton sits in Collin County on the US-380 corridor between McKinney and Greenville, in a landscape that has transitioned from the cotton and grain farming of the Blackland Prairie through several decades of accelerating residential and commercial development following the DFW metroplex's northeastern expansion. The city's rapid growth—one of the fastest-growing communities in Texas through the first quarter of the twenty-first century—reflects the same exurban pressure that has transformed Collin County from agricultural into one of the most economically active suburban counties in the United States. The park's location in this growth corridor gives it convenient access to the full DFW commercial infrastructure while maintaining the quieter, less congested character of a community still on the fringe of the metropolitan edge. Lake Lavon, a US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the East Fork of the Trinity River, is the primary outdoor recreation draw within easy reach of the campground—a 21,400-acre lake in Collin and Rockwall counties that provides bass, crappie, catfish, and white bass fishing alongside the swimming beaches, boat ramps, and hiking trails of the Corps-managed Lavon Lake District parks. The lake's position in the Collin County exurban ring makes it the closest major lake recreation venue to the northeastern DFW suburbs, and the campground's position between the lake and the US-75 corridor makes Old Rooster Creek a natural staging point for Lavon Lake day trips from the Dallas area. Old Rooster Creek RV Park operates year-round in the north Texas climate where the Collin County spring and fall seasons—April through May and September through November—deliver the most comfortable outdoor conditions for camping, and summer heat from June through August makes the covered site structures and shaded outdoor spaces essential daily amenities. McKinney, one of Texas's most consistently ranked mid-size cities for livability, is about 15 miles northwest and provides the full commercial and cultural infrastructure of a rapidly developing Texas city with a preserved historic downtown square.

from $33/night

Waterfront Hideaway Ranch

Waterfront Hideaway Ranch in Little Elm, Texas, offers full-hookup RV sites and cabins on 14 acres of open pasture, shaded groves, and direct Lewisville Lake frontage, behind a gated entrance and open all year. A beach, dog park, and community fire pit sit 35 miles from downtown Dallas — among the most accessible private lakefront camping in the DFW corridor. The ranch is explicitly LGBTIQA+ friendly. Full-hookup RV sites and cabin accommodations serve both RV travelers and guests without a rig. Laundry, restrooms, and WiFi handle the practical side, and a gated entrance controls access. The property is open year-round. The lake frontage is the draw. A beach gives direct shoreline access, and swimming, fishing, paddle boats, canoeing, kayaking, and water sports all run from the property. A community fire pit anchors the evenings, a dog park serves pets, and corn hole and planned activities fill the rest. The open pasture and shaded groves make for good birding and stargazing despite the metropolitan proximity, and boating and skiing are nearby. Pets are welcome. Little Elm sits on Lewisville Lake's north shore in Denton County. Downtown Dallas is 35 miles away and Frisco's entertainment and sports venues 15 — a combination of lakefront setting and metropolitan access that is increasingly rare as Denton County develops. Lewisville Lake's bass fishing, Little Elm Park's sandy beach, and the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area's nature trails are all close. The ranch operates year-round in the North Texas climate. Summer lake recreation drives peak demand from the DFW market — reserve ahead for warm-weather weekends and holidays.

Northlake Village RV Park

Northlake Village RV Park in Roanoke, Texas, sits between Denton and Fort Worth in the northern Metroplex corridor — a full-service campground three minutes from Texas Motor Speedway and within practical range of the Fort Worth cultural and entertainment district, the DFW International Airport, and the dense attraction ecosystem that Grapevine, Irving, and the broader mid-cities area provides. For guests whose Texas travel agenda combines motorsport events, Metroplex entertainment, or family theme park days with the practical need for a full-hookup RV site, Northlake Village's position in the highway infrastructure of north Tarrant and Denton Counties gives it strong geographic logic. Large RV sites with full hookups and Wi-Fi, an on-site fitness center, a bathhouse with private showers, and an outdoor pool give guests the comprehensive infrastructure that extended-stay and destination campground guests expect. A community fire pit, dog park, playground, and covered pavilion serve the social and family recreation dimensions alongside the individual site infrastructure, and propane exchange and fill service addresses the fuel supply logistics that cooking and heating requirements create for multi-night stays. Laundry facilities handle the cleaning needs of guests on longer-duration Metroplex itineraries. Pets are welcome. Texas Motor Speedway, three minutes from the campground, is one of the premier facilities in NASCAR and IndyCar racing — a 1.5-mile quad-oval superspeedway hosting the NASCAR Cup Series O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 and the IndyCar XPEL 375 in the spring and fall NASCAR schedules. Race weekends at TMS are among the most comprehensively attended sporting events in North Texas, filling accommodation inventory across the northern Metroplex with the specific combination of camping-adjacent racing culture and campground proximity that Northlake Village delivers better than any Metroplex alternative. The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, 20-plus minutes south on I-35W, is one of the most authentically Western urban experiences available in any American city — a working stock yard, rodeo venue, honky-tonk strip, and walkable historic district where the twice-daily cattle drive down Exchange Avenue has operated continuously since 1995 and where the Stockyards Championship Rodeo, Billy Bob's Texas honky-tonk, and the independent Western wear and dining district give Fort Worth a cowboy-culture identity that distinguishes it sharply from Dallas's more cosmopolitan orientation. The Fort Worth Cultural District, with the Kimbell Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, provides the counterweight — three world-class art institutions within walking distance of each other in a museum district of genuine international significance. Northlake Village RV Park operates year-round in the North Texas climate, with the racing calendar providing the most specific demand spikes — Texas Motor Speedway's spring and fall NASCAR and IndyCar weekends fill the campground from the motorsport audience that travels specifically for the racing events. Six Flags Over Texas and Hurricane Harbor in Arlington, Legoland Discovery and Sea Life Grapevine, and the AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field sports venues sustain family and sports tourism demand through the full calendar year. Reserve race weekend sites at least several months ahead, and book well in advance for any major Metroplex sports or entertainment event that drives regional accommodation demand.

The Retreat at Shady Creek

115 RV Sites

The Retreat at Shady Creek in Aubrey, Texas, offers 64 full-hookup back-in RV sites in Denton County's north DFW corridor, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Deluxe and premium back-in categories join a pool, fitness center, clubhouse, mini-golf, and pickleball courts. Sixty-four back-in sites run in deluxe and premium categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 60 feet. Sixty feet accommodates a long coach with a tow, and the two-tier structure keeps booking simple. A laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with a fitness center, clubhouse, mini-golf, sports courts, pickleball, basketball, walking trails, hiking, a pond, and dog park filling the grounds. Fishing and swimming run on the property, with planned activities through the season, a creek on site, and a lake and golf course nearby. Pets are welcome. Aubrey sits in the suburban landscape between Frisco, Little Elm, and Prosper — one of the fastest-growing corridors in the country — at the doorstep of Lake Ray Roberts State Park. That combination is the appeal: genuine open country and lake access with the full DFW metroplex within practical range. The Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters, PGA Frisco, FC Dallas, the State Fair of Texas, the Sixth Floor Museum, the George W. Bush Presidential Library, the Dallas Zoo, and the Perot Museum are all reachable. Spring and fall deliver the most comfortable North Texas conditions. Reserve ahead for major DFW event weekends.

from $75 $65/night

Shady Creek RV Park & Storage

207 RV Sites

Shady Creek RV Park & Storage in Aubrey, Texas, offers 207 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, behind a gated entrance. Deluxe, premium, and premium plus categories join a pool, fitness center, clubhouse, and recreation center between Denton and McKinney. Two hundred seven back-in sites run in deluxe, premium, and premium plus categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with picnic tables. The sites are notably large. A laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, RV storage, boat storage, and personal mailboxes handle the practical side — the mailboxes and storage point clearly at the long-stay residents the park also serves. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a fitness center, clubhouse, recreation center, and banquet room for the social side. A pond and creek run the property for fishing, with sports courts, basketball, walking trails, hiking, a playground, dog park, and community fire pit besides. Boating, a golf course, and a lake are nearby, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Aubrey sits in Denton County's fast-growing North Texas corridor, between the Lake Ray Roberts recreation area to the northwest and McKinney's historic square to the southeast. Medical facilities including Baylor Scott & White Emergency Hospital and an animal medical center are close. The park operates year-round with steady long-stay demand. Reserve ahead for short stays.

from $67 $58/night

Ennis Luxury RV Resort

Twenty-eight miles south of Dallas along Interstate 45, Ennis Luxury RV Resort delivers exactly the experience the name promises: one hundred fully paved sites with granite and turf finishes, resort-quality amenities, and a level of polish that sets a clear standard in the North Texas RV landscape. Located in Ellis County near the historic town of Ennis, the resort sits off Exit 251A with convenient highway access and serves travelers heading to and from Dallas, Austin, and every point between. If you've ever compromised on comfort at a highway-adjacent park, Ennis Luxury RV Resort offers a considerably better answer. The resort's 100 sites feature concrete and paved pads with full hookups, accommodating rigs of all sizes with room to maneuver and settle in comfortably. A swimming pool and splash pad handle the summer afternoons, while bocce ball courts add a more leisurely competitive option. The dog park gives four-legged travelers their own dedicated space, and laundry facilities, a resort clubhouse, and a full-service spa ensure that extended stays don't require leaving the property for anything essential. On-site ice, post office services, and off-sale wine add convenient touches that speak to the resort's attention to the small details of a comfortable stay. Paved drives and security cameras contribute to a well-maintained, secure environment throughout. Ellis County is best known among wildflower enthusiasts as the heart of Texas bluebonnet country, and the forty-mile Bluebonnet Trails route—which loops through the countryside on County Road 425 and surrounding back roads—draws visitors from across the state in spring when the fields explode in color. The town of Ennis hosts a popular annual Bluebonnet Trails Festival celebrating the spring season with guided tours, vendor markets, and community events. The Dallas area's full cultural and entertainment landscape is less than thirty minutes north, giving resort guests easy access to professional sports, world-class museums, acclaimed restaurants, and live music venues when the city calls. Ennis itself has a charming historic downtown anchored by a restored depot district and streets lined with late-Victorian commercial architecture. The Ennis Czech Heritage Museum reflects the town's strong Czech immigrant roots and offers a distinctive local history experience worth a few hours. The surrounding agricultural landscape of North Texas takes on its most visually striking character during the spring wildflower season, but the wide-open country carries a particular big-sky quality in every season that many guests find unexpectedly appealing. The proximity to Buc-ee's—the beloved Texas travel institution located just 1,100 feet from the resort entrance—will mean something to a significant portion of the traveling population. Ennis Luxury RV Resort is a year-round destination that draws its largest crowds during the spring bluebonnet season and summer weekends when the pool and splash pad are in full operation. Reservations are recommended throughout the warmer months, and spring weekends during peak bluebonnet bloom can book out weeks in advance. Whether you're passing through on I-45, spending a weekend chasing wildflowers through Ellis County, or using the resort as a home base for Dallas adventures, Ennis Luxury RV delivers the facilities and finish to justify the name. Book your site and experience what a genuinely well-run Texas luxury RV resort looks like.

from $65/night

Roaming Trails RV Retreat

25 RV Sites

Roaming Trails RV Retreat sits in Burleson, Texas, on County Road 530B—a resort-style RV park in Johnson County 20 minutes south of downtown Fort Worth on I-35W, positioned in the southern DFW metropolitan fringe where the fast-growing Burleson-Cleburne corridor meets the still-rural Johnson County landscape of cedar and mesquite scrub and the working ranches that persist at the edge of the suburban expansion. The park's surroundings of shade trees and the horses that graze the adjacent property give it the peaceful ranch-adjacent atmosphere that increasingly rare in the rapidly developing DFW corridor. Full hookup pull-through and back-in sites accommodate RVs up to 45 feet with 50-amp electric service, water, and sewer. A zero-entry swimming pool, modern clubhouse, fitness center, shaded dog park, high-speed WiFi throughout, Amazon package lockers, laundry, and propane provide the complete resort infrastructure. The gated entrance and the availability of private fenced-in sites for guests who want additional security and yard space distinguish Roaming Trails from the standard open-plan RV park layout, and the park's organized community events—line dancing, BBQ gatherings, and seasonally programmed activities—create the social atmosphere of a destination resort rather than a corridor overnight stop. Burleson's position in the southern DFW metro gives it the practical advantages of a large metropolitan area's infrastructure—major retailers, medical facilities, regional airport proximity—without the traffic density and commercial congestion of the urban core. The city has grown rapidly in the twenty-first century as the DFW area's southern suburban expansion has transformed Johnson County from an agricultural fringe community into a suburban residential destination, and that growth has brought the commercial infrastructure that makes extended stays in the Burleson area genuinely functional for campers who need urban services during multi-day visits. Fort Worth is 20 minutes north and constitutes one of the more culturally rich mid-size American cities relative to expectations—the Sundance Square entertainment district, the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District where twice-daily longhorn cattle drives still operate on Exchange Avenue alongside rodeos, dancehalls, and the honky-tonk scene that has made the Stockyards a living museum of Texas cowboy culture, and the Cultural District's concentration of world-class art museums (the Kimbell Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art) give Fort Worth a breadth of attraction that draws as many day trip visits as overnight stays. The Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge provides 3,621 acres of natural landscape within Fort Worth's city limits. Roaming Trails RV Retreat operates year-round in the North Texas climate where spring (March through May) and fall (September through November) provide the most pleasant outdoor temperatures, and summer heat from June through August is managed by the pool, shade trees, and the park's clubhouse and air-conditioned facilities. The Lost Oak Winery in Burleson, Pirates Cove Family Water Park for families with children, and the proximity of the Fort Worth metro's full entertainment calendar provide the supporting activity infrastructure for multi-day stays throughout the year.

from $48/night

The RV Resort TX

45 RV Sites

The RV Resort TX in Alvarado, Texas, is a big-rig-friendly full-service resort on I-35W in Johnson County — a well-amenitied campground with an outdoor pool, dog park, mini-golf course, clean restrooms and showers, and on-site laundry that serves both the I-35W through-travel market and the destination visitor seeking a comfortable base in the Fort Worth-to-Waco corridor of north-central Texas. Alvarado's Johnson County position on I-35W, 30 miles south of Fort Worth, gives guests the practical interstate access of a major Texas transportation corridor alongside the proximity to the Cross Timbers and Blackland Prairie recreational landscape of Johnson and Somervell Counties that Cleburne State Park, Dinosaur Valley State Park, and the Glen Rose fossil and wildlife attraction district specifically represent. Full-hookup big-rig-friendly RV sites with an outdoor pool, dog park, mini-golf, modern bathrooms and showers, and laundry give the resort the complete daily comfort infrastructure that both through-travelers on the I-35W corridor and extended-stay destination guests specifically require — the pool and dog park give the campground's leisure and pet-travel market the on-site amenities that differentiate a resort from a utility truck stop, and the big-rig accessibility ensures that the full range of coach and fifth-wheel rigs can navigate and level within the site layout. The resort's welcoming character reflects its I-35W market position. Pets are welcome. Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, 30 miles west of Alvarado in Somervell County, preserves the most significant and most accessible exposed dinosaur trackways in North America — the Paluxy River's limestone riverbed contains sauropod and theropod dinosaur footprints from 113 million years ago, visible in the river channel at normal water levels and accessible by walking the river bottom in the park's wading areas. The trackways' combination of physical accessibility, geological authenticity, and the specific scale of the individual prints — sauropod tracks reaching three feet in diameter — give the Glen Rose site the dinosaur encounter character that no museum diorama can replicate. The park's swimming, camping, and mountain biking extend the visit beyond the trackways. Cleburne State Park, eight miles northwest of Alvarado in Johnson County, preserves the Cross Timbers' cedar and hardwood terrain on the shores of a 116-acre spring-fed lake in a Civilian Conservation Corps-built state park whose stone and timber facilities, swimming beach, fishing pier, and hiking trails through the cedar brake and live oak upland give it the specific rustic authenticity that the CCC's 1930s construction standards sustained across the Texas state park system. The park's accessible location from the Fort Worth metro makes it one of the most consistently visited state parks in the DFW day-trip range, and the spring-fed lake's consistent water clarity gives it quality that the area's other reservoirs, subject to the Blackland Prairie's turbid agricultural runoff, cannot match. The RV Resort TX serves guests year-round in Johnson County's temperate north Texas climate, where the mild winters attract the southbound I-35W traveler and snowbird market and the spring and fall seasons provide the most comfortable conditions for the Cross Timbers and Somervell County day-trip range that Glen Rose and Cleburne State Park sustain. Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, 35 miles west in Glen Rose, operates the most comprehensive drive-through wildlife conservation safari experience in Texas — a 1,800-acre open-range facility with giraffe, white rhino, cheetah, and 1,100 animals of 55 threatened and endangered species in a drive-through format that gives guests the direct wildlife proximity that the natural range behavior of the free-ranging herd provides. Reserve sites ahead for summer peak and the Fort Worth area's major events calendar.

from $50/night