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Antique Capital RV Park

7 RV Sites

Antique Capital RV Park is a premier RV park in Gladewater, Texas, serving both short-term travelers and long-term guests. Located in the heart of East Texas near Longview, Tyler, and Kilgore, ACRV offers a clean, quiet, and welcoming setting with on-site management and amenities designed for comfortable stays. Guests enjoy full-hookup RV sites, spacious pull-throughs, a saltwater swimming pool, fishing pond, two dog parks, dog wash, laundry facilities, fitness center, resort-style private bathrooms, and an event center. Our premium long-term RV sites include hard-to-find features such as private fenced yards, storage buildings, carports, and covered RV sites. Gladewater is known as the Antique Capital of East Texas, with a historic downtown filled with antique shops, vintage finds, and small-town character. The area sits within the beautiful East Texas Piney Woods, where tall pine forests, mature hardwoods, rolling terrain, lakes, and rich red soil create a landscape that feels distinctly different from the wide-open image many people associate with Texas. The region is also shaped by the history of the East Texas Oil Field and is surrounded by some of the state's most scenic lakes and outdoor destinations. From antique shopping and small-town festivals to fishing, history, and exploring the Piney Woods, Gladewater offers an authentic East Texas experience. Whether you're visiting for a few nights, exploring the Antique Capital of East Texas, working in the Gladewater, Longview, Tyler, or Kilgore area, or looking for a quality long-term RV community, Antique Capital RV Park combines a convenient location, exceptional amenities, and a peaceful place to call home.

from $44/night

Stillwater RV Resort

149 RV Sites, 1 House

Stillwater RV Resort in Winona, Texas, offers 149 RV sites and a house rental across 92 acres of East Texas Piney Woods, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Waterfront premium back-in sites join premium, standard, and water-and-electric categories, alongside a saltwater lazy river, water park, and beach. One hundred forty-nine sites span back-in, back-in water-and-electric, premium back-in, premium pull-thru, pull-thru, and waterfront premium back-in categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with picnic tables. Confirm your tier, as the water-and-electric category does not carry sewer at the site. The waterfront premium sites are the ones to request. A house rental rounds out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. The saltwater aquatic complex is the signature — a lazy river, multiple pools, and a swim-up bar that function as a resort water park rather than a campground amenity. A fitness center, clubhouse, game room, pickleball, volleyball, horseshoes, golf cart rentals, biking, a lake, creek, beach, playground, and dog park fill the rest. Ninety-two acres just off I-20 between Tyler and Longview puts the resort at a scale most campgrounds in the region do not attempt. Summer drives the heaviest demand for a water resort, with spring and fall most comfortable in East Texas. Reserve well ahead for warm-weather weekends.

Jellystone Park™ Tyler

172 RV Sites, 99 Cabins, 4 Tent Sites, 3 Cottages, 1 Lodge

Jellystone Park Tyler in Texas offers 172 RV sites, 103 cabin, cottage, and lodge units, and four tent sites across 107 acres of Piney Woods, with 20, 30, and 50-amp full hookups and rigs accepted to 45 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Diamond Series and Platinum categories join a Water Zone, laser tag, and spa, open all year. One hundred seventy-two sites span premium back-in, preferred premium back-in, platinum back-in, and Diamond Series back-in 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. The four-tier naming makes it easy to match site to budget. One hundred three cabins, cottages, and lodges and four tent sites round out an unusually deep lodging range. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The Water Zone anchors the summer, with an outdoor pool, water park, and splash features alongside. Laser tag, mini-golf, an arcade, jumping pillow, gem mining, craft room, spa, recreation center, sports courts, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, and horseshoes fill the grounds, with a pond for fishing, walking trails, hiking, a playground, pavilion, dog park, golf cart rentals, on-site dining, and a community fire pit besides. Pets are welcome. Tyler is the Rose Capital of America, and its municipal rose garden is the largest in the United States. Summer and spring rose season drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $60/night

Lake Hawkins RV Park

50 RV Sites, 2 Cabins

Lake Hawkins RV Park in Texas offers 50 full-hookup back-in RV sites and two cabins across about 55 acres on one of the clearest lakes in East Texas, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. A boat ramp, fishing pier, white-sand beach, and boat storage sit on 1,800 feet of shoreline. Fifty back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. A single back-in category keeps things simple, and every site gets a fire pit and picnic table. Two cabins round out the lodging. A general store, dump station, restrooms, showers, RV storage, and boat storage handle the practical side. Check in at the main office during working hours or go directly to your assigned site; call the office if you need help after hours. A boat ramp, fishing pier, and nearly 700 feet of white-sand beach anchor the recreation, with boating, paddle boats, canoeing, kayaking, water sports, swimming, snorkeling, and fishing all on the water. Snorkeling is worth noting — the lake is spring-fed and clear enough to make it worthwhile, which is genuinely rare in East Texas. Walking trails, hiking, volleyball, a pavilion, and playground fill the grounds. Pets are welcome. The white sand and clear water give the property a distinctly coastal feel in the middle of the Piney Woods. Summer lake season drives the heaviest demand. Reserve well ahead for warm-weather weekends.

from $30/night

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

Rest-a-Spell Rv Park

15 RV Sites

Rest-a-Spell RV Park in Tyler, Texas, offers 15 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 65 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, just 285 feet from the entrance of Tyler State Park. Back-in and pull-through categories, a general store, and propane service round out a park built around one of the most direct state park adjacencies in East Texas. Fifteen sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 65 feet, with site WiFi. The 65-foot capacity and big-rig-friendly layout handle a long coach with a tow, which is uncommon at a park this size. A general store covers camp basics, propane fills and exchange are on site, and firewood is available. With 15 sites, reserve rather than counting on availability. Pets are welcome. The position is the amenity. At 285 feet from the state park entrance, guests reach Tyler State Park's hiking trails, forested lake, swimming, and kayaking without a separate drive — a genuine difference from the usual "minutes away" claim. Fishing runs from the area, with a lake nearby. That adjacency makes this a natural base for visitors whose primary interest is the state park itself, while the full hookups and highway access also serve travelers passing through the Tyler area on regional routes. Tyler sits in Smith County's Piney Woods, where the East Texas pine forest gives the region its green, wooded character. The park serves the East Texas season, with spring azalea and rose season, summer state park traffic, and fall all drawing steadily. Tyler State Park fills on warm-weather weekends, and the campground next door fills with it — reserve well ahead for those.

from $38/night

Tyler Camping RV Park

17 RV Sites, 2 Onsite RV/Trailers, 2 Tiny Houses

Tyler Camping RV Park in Tyler, Texas, offers 19 full-hookup RV sites and two tiny houses 1.5 miles from I-20, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet. Executive pull-throughs join standard back-ins, with RV rentals available and wide-open grounds in the East Texas Piney Woods. Nineteen sites run in standard back-in and executive pull-through categories carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 50 feet, with site WiFi. Two tiny houses and RV rentals — the Aurora by Forest River and the XPLOR — serve guests arriving without equipment, which is an unusual and genuinely useful option. Laundry handles the practical side. Pets are welcome. A community fire pit, playground, and dog park fill the grounds, with picnicking across the wide-open property and planned activities through the season. The pine forest setting gives the Tyler area its green, wooded character — distinctly different from the open plains most visitors picture when they think of Texas. The local attractions are unusually varied for a city this size. Tyler State Park's lake and forest trails are close, along with the Caldwell Zoo, the Tyler Rose Garden, the Discovery Science Place, Miranda Lambert's Pink Pistol, True Vine Brewing Co., and the East Texas State Fair and Santa Land. Wine tasting is nearby. The park serves both I-20 through-travelers and destination visitors. Spring azalea and rose season and the fall fair drive the sharpest demand — reserve ahead for those windows.

from $45/night

The Boulders at Lake Tyler

31 RV Sites

The Boulders at Lake Tyler in Whitehouse, Texas, provides a lakefront resort camping experience on Lake Tyler in Smith County's East Texas Piney Woods, where a private lake and the adjacent Tyler reservoir system's clear spring-fed waters create a recreational lake environment complemented by the resort's bike rentals, kayak rentals, boat rentals, cabins, dining, and billiards in a destination that pairs East Texas lake recreation with access to Tyler's exceptional rose garden heritage and the surrounding Piney Woods' natural character. Whitehouse's position as a Smith County community immediately south of Tyler places the resort within minutes of the city that has earned the title Rose Capital of the World and the Azalea capital of the Southwest for the horticultural culture that the East Texas climate and deep sandy soils sustain. The resort's facility delivers full-service lake camping with active recreation infrastructure: a lake and cabin rentals, bike rentals with biking trails, kayak rentals, boat rentals, canoeing and kayaking on the reservoir, hiking trails, billiards, shuffleboard, a recreation center, dining on site, general store, walking trails, showers, bathrooms, laundry, dump station, and Wi-Fi collectively provide organized recreation for multi-day lake stays whose primary activities are water-based but whose evenings include the dining, billiards, and social recreation that the resort's indoor facilities support. The lake's bass, crappie, and catfish fishing from the shore and from rented boats provides the fishing recreation that Lake Tyler's clear water consistently delivers to anglers across skill levels. Tyler is the Smith County seat and the commercial center of East Texas's largest metropolitan area, a city whose rose growing heritage—rooted in the rose nursery industry that developed on Smith County's deep sandy loam soils in the early twentieth century—now encompasses over 500 commercial rose growers and the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden, the largest municipal rose garden in the United States with 38,000 rose plants representing over 500 varieties in 14 acres of formal garden maintained by the City of Tyler. The annual Texas Rose Festival each October has celebrated the harvest with a Rose Queen coronation and the rose show that brings the horticultural community's finest specimens to Tyler since 1933. The Caldwell Zoo in Tyler is one of the finest small-city zoos in the American South, featuring African and North American wildlife in naturalistic habitats developed across a 75-acre campus that has expanded continuously since its 1938 founding as a privately funded community institution. The oil discovery at Spindletop-influenced East Texas field in the 1930s created the petroleum wealth that transformed Tyler into one of the most prosperous small cities in Texas, and the legacy of that prosperity persists in the city's museum infrastructure, the Azalea Trail's March festival of residential azalea gardens, and the performing arts calendar that Tyler's community arts organizations sustain. The Boulders at Lake Tyler operates year-round in Smith County's East Texas climate, with the spring bass spawn season from February through April and the summer lake recreation season from Memorial Day through Labor Day representing the two most active camping periods when the lake's water temperature, the kayak and boat rental activity, and the Tyler Rose Festival's April and October peaks align with the resort's most competitive reservation windows. The fall color season in the surrounding Piney Woods from October through November and the mild East Texas winter temperatures that allow year-round fishing create the shoulder-season camping activity that keeps the resort operating through the colder months.

from $55/night

Island View RV Park

51 RV Sites

Island View RV Park in Jefferson, Texas, offers 51 full-hookup back-in RV sites on Lake O' the Pines, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet behind a gated entrance. A beach and direct lake access sit on an 18,700-acre reservoir in the East Texas Piney Woods. Fifty-one back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 50 feet. The 20-amp option suits smaller trailers and vans that do not need a full 50-amp pedestal, and the 50-foot capacity handles most mid-size coaches. A gated entrance controls access, which matters more than it sounds at a lakeside park where day traffic can otherwise wander through. Pets are welcome. The lake carries the recreation. A beach gives direct swimming access, with boating, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and paddle boarding from the shoreline and a pond on the property besides. Hiking and biking run from the grounds, and the dark sky over the reservoir makes for good stargazing and productive birding along the cypress-lined shore. Jefferson is one of East Texas's most historically layered communities. Antebellum architecture lines the streets, the town's nineteenth-century steamboat history still shapes its identity, and the cypress-draped waterways of the Big Cypress Bayou system have defined this corner of the Piney Woods since before the Texas Republic. The combination of an 18,700-acre reservoir and a genuine heritage town within minutes is unusual. The park serves guests whose visit splits between lake recreation and Jefferson's heritage tourism. Summer lake season and the town's festival calendar drive the heaviest demand — reserve ahead for warm-weather weekends.

from $45/night

South Tyler RV Park

42 RV Sites

South Tyler RV Park in Tyler, Texas, provides full-hookup RV sites with solid Wi-Fi and on-site laundry in a quiet, tree-adjacent corner of Tyler's growing south side — a straightforward, well-maintained campground in Smith County's East Texas Piney Woods that gives guests the complete practical overnight base for visiting the Rose Capital of the World without the complications of navigation, size restrictions, or the service gaps that rural East Texas campgrounds can impose on guests who need reliable connectivity and daily utility access. Tyler's identity as the headquarters of the Texas rose industry, with the world's largest municipal rose garden and an extensive commercial rose-growing infrastructure in the surrounding Smith and Van Zandt County countryside, gives the campground an unusual and specific community identity that most through-travelers on I-20 and US Highway 69 don't expect to find in an East Texas Piney Woods city. Full-hookup sites with reliable Wi-Fi and on-site laundry give guests the complete functional infrastructure that makes South Tyler a practical choice for both brief overnight stops and longer Tyler-area stays, and the quiet, tree-adjacent character of the south Tyler location gives the campground the natural buffer that genuine Piney Woods East Texas always delivers when the site is properly selected from the surrounding forest edge rather than carved out of a commercial strip. Pets are welcome. The Tyler Rose Garden, maintained by the city on a 14-acre site in Tyler's south side, is the largest municipal rose garden in the United States — over 38,000 roses from 500 varieties planted in a formal garden setting that peaks in spring with the May bloom and produces a second significant bloom in October, giving Tyler's rose garden a biannual display of rose variety and color density that the American Rose Society specifically recognizes. The adjacent Tyler Municipal Rose Garden and the Texas Rose Festival in October, when the Piney Woods community crowns a Rose Festival Queen and stages rose-themed events across the city, sustain Tyler's century-long identity as the center of the American rose industry. Tyler State Park, five miles north of the campground on the Spring Creek arm of Lake Tyler, preserves 985 acres of mixed pine and hardwood East Texas forest with swimming, fishing, hiking, and paddleboat access on the spring-fed lake — one of the most visited state parks in East Texas for its combination of clear-water lake recreation and the specific Piney Woods forest character that Smith County's elevation and mixed forest sustain in a more intact form than the surrounding agricultural conversion has left in most East Texas counties. The Caldwell Zoo in Tyler, one of the finest small-city zoos in the United States, provides African savanna, South American, and North American wildlife exhibits in a natural habitat setting consistently praised for its animal husbandry standards. South Tyler RV Park serves guests year-round in Smith County's mild East Texas climate, where the spring bloom season from late April through May and the October rose festival period represent the highest Tyler-area visitor demand from the regional leisure market. The spring azalea trails through Tyler's residential districts, particularly the Azalea Trail that winds through the Brick Streets neighborhood's Victorian homes under canopies of blooming azaleas in late March and early April, sustain the Tyler spring tourism season alongside the rose garden's May peak. Reserve sites ahead for the Texas Rose Festival in October and the spring azalea season, when Tyler's accommodation inventory fills from the Dallas-Fort Worth and East Texas regional visitor market.

from $40/night

Big Al's Barefoot Bay Marina and RV Resort

65 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 8 Tent Sites

Big Al's Barefoot Bay Marina and RV Resort in Pittsburg, Texas, offers 65 full-hookup RV sites, five cabins, and eight tent sites on Lake Bob Sandlin, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted up to 120 feet. Lakefront back-in, Sanctuary back-in, Grand pull-through, and Trailhead categories join classic and convenient tiers, with a full marina, boat rentals, and on-site dining. Sixty-five sites span classic back-in, convenient pull-thru, Grand pull-thru, lakefront back-in, Sanctuary back-in, and Trailhead pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 120 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. One hundred twenty feet is among the most generous capacities anywhere, and the named categories tell you what you are getting. Five cabins and eight tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. A refundable security deposit is required at check-in on all sites and cabins. The marina anchors the property, with boat docks, a boat ramp, boat rentals, and kayak rentals for boating, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding, and swimming. A clubhouse, game room, arcade, billiards, horseshoes, golf cart rentals, a playground, pavilion, dog park, on-site dining, and a bar fill the rest, with live music and planned activities through the season. Lake Bob Sandlin is a 9,400-acre Corps reservoir with 120 miles of piney woods shoreline and a strong largemouth reputation. Summer and the spring bass season drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $16/night

Buffalo Run RV Park

20 RV Sites

Buffalo Run RV Park sits at the gateway to Jefferson, Texas—one of the most historically preserved small cities in the Deep South and the heart of Caddo Lake country in the Big Cypress bayou drainage of northeast Texas. The park positions guests within minutes of Caddo Lake, the only naturally formed lake in Texas, and within sight of Lonesome Dove Safari Park next door, making it one of the more unusually well-located campgrounds in East Texas for families who want both natural landscape and unexpected attraction in the same day trip. Full hookup RV sites with water, electric, and sewer serve campers, with showers, laundry, and dump station handling the practical daily needs. Cabins are available for guests who prefer enclosed accommodation. WiFi is provided throughout the property, and the pet-friendly policy accommodates travel dogs. The campground's position on the east Texas piney woods fringe gives it the characteristic deep-green, heavily shaded character of the region—loblolly and shortleaf pines, sweet gum, and the dense understory that defines the Piney Woods ecoregion's visual identity. Lonesome Dove Safari Park, immediately adjacent to the campground, provides a drive-through wildlife encounter with over 700 animals across 90 species, a petting zoo, and a gift shop—an on-site entertainment option that requires nothing more than a short drive from the campsite. Caddo Lake is a few minutes away and represents one of the most ecologically distinctive freshwater environments in North America. The lake's extraordinary landscape of bald cypress forest, Spanish moss, and lily-pad-covered backwaters was created partly by a massive natural log jam—the Great Raft—that formed in the Red River over centuries and backed water into the Big Cypress watershed. The result is a labyrinthine system of sloughs, bayous, and open water that rewards kayakers and small-boat anglers who are willing to spend time learning its geography. Bass, catfish, and crappie fishing is consistently productive, and the lake's Great Blue Heron and egret rookeries give it a wildlife spectacle that has few equivalents in inland Texas. Jefferson itself is a remarkably well-preserved antebellum river town that once rivaled Galveston as the most important commercial city in Texas, when the natural waterway of Big Cypress Creek allowed steamboat access from New Orleans. The city's historic district preserves iron-front commercial buildings, Greek Revival mansions, and the Excelsior House Hotel—a pre-Civil War lodging property that counts Jay Gould and Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant among its former guests. Jefferson's reputation for ghost tours and historic lodging draws weekend visitors from Dallas, Shreveport, and the Texas Piney Woods in numbers that make it one of the more active small-city tourism destinations in East Texas. Buffalo Run RV Park operates year-round in a climate where East Texas winters are mild and spring through fall deliver the most rewarding conditions for lake exploration and outdoor recreation. Caddo Lake's spring wildflower season—when the water lotus and American lotus bloom across the lake's open bays—is one of the most visually spectacular periods for a visit, and the fall color of the bald cypress turning copper-orange in November rivals any foliage display in the Southeast. Weekend reservations book quickly given Jefferson's consistent draw as a day-trip destination from the Dallas corridor.

from $55/night