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Camp Fimfo Waco

246 RV Sites, 88 Cabins, 8 Tent Sites

Camp Fimfo Waco in Texas offers 246 full-hookup RV sites, 88 cabins, and eight tent sites across more than 200 acres on the Bosque River, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 56 feet behind a gated entrance, open all year. Preferred Red Carpet back-in and pull-through categories join premium RV/tent sites with side-specific hookups, alongside a water park, zip line, and laser tag. Two hundred forty-six sites span preferred Red Carpet back-in, preferred Red Carpet pull-thru, and premium back-in RV/tent categories — including sites specified as right-side hookup — all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 56 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Specifying which side the hookups are on is a small detail that saves a lot of hose. Eighty-eight cabins and eight tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Tours are welcome by appointment — call or email [email protected]. A water park and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a zip line, laser tag, mini-golf, an arcade, jumping pillow, gem mining, sports courts, tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, bocce ball, billiards, horseshoes, corn hole, a pond, playground, dog park, and on-site dining besides. The river carries fishing, boating, paddle boarding, canoeing, and kayaking. Two hundred acres west of Waco makes this a destination rather than a stopover. Summer is the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $45/night

Belaire Junction RV Park

15 RV Sites

On the H.K. Dodgen Loop in Temple, Texas—founded by Bell County natives with genuine roots in the Temple-Belton community and positioned at one of the most convenient corridor stops on the I-35 between Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin—Belaire Junction RV Park offers a retro-styled, family-friendly community with full hookups, free WiFi and cable, a pool, splash pad, clubhouse, game room, playground, pickleball and basketball courts, and multiple fenced dog parks in a gated property that takes the standard I-35 layover and turns it into an actual destination stay. The weekly Take-Out Thursday and Food Truck Friday events bring local restaurant vendors onto the property, creating the on-site social energy that distinguishes Belaire Junction from the functional-but-forgettable highway parks that populate the Central Texas corridor. Full hookup sites accommodate big rigs with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer service alongside cable TV, WiFi, and the concrete infrastructure that supports extended stays in the Texas heat. Two laundry facilities and private restrooms and showers support multi-night and weekly guests. A pond on the property provides the immediate wildlife-watching and light fishing opportunity that many long-stay guests discover, and a recreation center, game room, and community fire pit extend the on-site activity options beyond the pool and splash pad. The gated entry provides the security that full-time and working RV travelers prioritize in a park with easy highway access. Temple sits in Bell County in Central Texas at the geographic center of the triangle formed by Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio—a position that makes it one of the most traveled stretches of highway in the state and simultaneously one of the most underappreciated stops for travelers who look past the highway exits. The city's history as a railroad town and the medical center anchored by Baylor Scott & White's flagship campus give it a civic character distinct from the bedroom communities that populate much of the I-35 corridor. The surrounding Bell County landscape transitions between the limestone Hill Country to the west and the blackland prairie that stretches east toward the Brazos River. Belton Lake, impounded on the Leon River in Bell County just a few miles from the park, provides the primary outdoor recreation anchor for the Temple-Belton area—a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir with 110 miles of shoreline, public boat ramps, swim beaches, and the bass and catfish fishing that the Central Texas reservoir system reliably produces. Stillhouse Hollow Lake to the south on the Lampasas River adds additional boating, fishing, and swim beach access within easy range. The city of Waco, 30 minutes north, offers the Magnolia Market at the Silos, Baylor University's campus and bear habitat, and the National Ranger Hall of Fame. Belaire Junction operates year-round in Temple's mild Central Texas climate, where the I-35 corridor's year-round traffic creates consistent demand from both overnight travelers and the extended-stay community that uses the park as a base for work assignments in the medical, military, and manufacturing sectors that drive Bell County's economy. The Food Truck Friday events are the week's social highlight and a genuine incentive for guests to plan their travel timing accordingly. Reserve your site at Belaire Junction and let Temple's friendly Bell County character prove that the best stop on the Central Texas I-35 run isn't always the one the exit signs are loudest about.

from $54/night

Shady Acres RV Park

72 RV Sites

Shady Acres RV Park in Cleburne, Texas, offers 72 full-hookup pull-through RV sites on 30-by-60-foot concrete pads, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 60 feet. Every site is pull-through, with an outdoor pool, recreation center, and game room on a property that serves both long-term residents and travelers. Seventy-two pull-through sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. The 30-by-60-foot concrete pads are the practical detail — level concrete removes the re-leveling that gravel sites require on a longer stay, and pulling through means no backing at all. Propane fills, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a recreation center and game room for other hours and basketball and a playground on the grounds. The amenity set is well-maintained rather than elaborate, which suits a park where a substantial share of guests stay by the month. Cleburne sits along US-67 in Johnson County, between Fort Worth and the Hill Country transition zone — 30 to 40 minutes from the DFW metro while keeping the quieter, small-city character that the suburban sprawl around it has largely absorbed. Day trips run conveniently in several directions from here. The park operates year-round, with winter drawing long-term residents and summer bringing travel traffic. Reserve ahead for holiday weekends.

from $60/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

Lake Limestone Campground & Marina

Situated on the shores of Lake Limestone in Jewett, Texas, in the rolling post-oak savanna of Leon and Limestone Counties, Lake Limestone Campground and Marina offers a full-service lakeside destination in a central Texas reservoir that sits in the geographic center of the triangle formed by Waco, Dallas, and College Station—giving it a practical appeal as a weekend escape from all three metro areas while delivering the fishing, boating, and lake recreation that define freshwater outdoor culture in central Texas. The campground's on-site marina and restaurant infrastructure give it a self-contained resort character uncommon in the private campground market in this part of Texas. RV sites, cabin rentals, and tent camping areas accommodate guests across the full range of lodging preferences, and the campground's water-access orientation shapes its amenity package toward the lake's primary recreation opportunities. A full marina with boat ramp and boat storage, fishing pier, restaurant, and modern restroom and shower facilities serve as the operational spine of the property, while playground infrastructure and the campground's overall family character extend the experience beyond the fishing-and-boating demographic that forms the core of Lake Limestone's visitor base. The on-site dining option gives guests a convenient meal option without requiring a drive to the small towns of the surrounding Leon County countryside. Lake Limestone—an 11,000-acre reservoir impounded on the Navasota River by Limestone County Water Control and Improvement District—is recognized as one of the most productive freshwater fisheries in central Texas, with consistent trophy largemouth bass production that has drawn tournament anglers to Jewett for decades. The lake's habitat structure of flooded timber, submerged creek channels, and vegetation edges supports bass populations that regularly produce fish in the eight-to-ten-pound range, and crappie, white bass, and channel catfish fishing adds recreational variety for guests whose angling interests extend beyond bass tournament-style fishing. Spring bass season from February through May is the lake's peak demand period, driven by spawning activity that concentrates fish in predictable shallower water. The surrounding central Texas landscape places the campground within practical day-trip reach of a cluster of destination cities whose cultural and recreational offerings provide substantial excursion options for guests on multi-night stays. Waco, approximately 65 miles northwest, anchors its tourism draw on the Magnolia Market at the Silos, the Dr Pepper Museum, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, and Cameron Park's Brazos River bluff trails. College Station's Texas A&M University campus and George Bush Presidential Library are accessible to the southwest. The small towns of Corsicana and Mexia in the immediate surrounding area provide historic courthouse squares and local dining that represent genuine central Texas small-town character. Lake Limestone Campground and Marina is open year-round, with the central Texas climate supporting boating and fishing access across most of the calendar with only brief winter interruptions during cold fronts. The spring bass fishing season from February through May represents the property's most competitive reservation window, with tournament anglers and recreational fishing groups booking cabin and RV inventory well in advance of the peak spawn period. Summer brings water recreation and family camping demand, and the lake's central Texas position and relatively low regional profile compared to the Highland Lakes chain gives it more available capacity during summer weekends than some better-known central Texas reservoir destinations.

Gather Campground Bell County

132 RV Sites

Gather Campground in Belton, Texas, offers 132 full-hookup RV sites on concrete pads directly off I-35, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 81 feet behind a gated entrance. Deluxe and standard back-in and pull-through categories join a splash pad, pool, fitness center, and private bathroom suites. One hundred thirty-two sites span standard back-in, standard pull-thru, deluxe back-in, and deluxe pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 81 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Eighty-one feet on a full-hookup concrete pad accommodates the longest coaches with a tow. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, on-site dining, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. The private bathroom suites and gigabit WiFi are the details guests notice first. Reach the staff at 254-23 for reservations and directions from Temple. A splash pad and outdoor pool anchor the warm months, with a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, lounge, playground, community fire pit, and dog park filling the grounds. Pets are welcome. The design sensibility is the differentiator — resort-caliber finishes at a highway campground, which is not a combination the interstate corridor usually offers. Belton sits two and a half miles from downtown in the heart of Central Texas, between Lake Belton and Lake Stillhouse Hollow, with Temple, Killeen, and Fort Cavazos close and both Austin and Waco within an easy drive. Demand tracks interstate traffic and Central Texas events rather than a season. Spring and fall are most comfortable. Reserve ahead for holiday travel and event weekends.

from $42/night

Harker Heights RV Park

124 RV Sites

Harker Heights RV Park in Texas offers 124 full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 45 feet, in the heart of the Central Texas military corridor. Premium and standard back-in categories join pull-through sites, with an outdoor pool, playground, and dog park. One hundred twenty-four sites run in standard back-in, premium back-in, and pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 45 feet. A general store, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with a community fire pit, playground, and dog park filling the grounds. Hiking, biking, swimming, and fishing are all available locally. Pets are welcome. The position serves a specific and steady market. Harker Heights sits on US-190 in the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan region, immediately adjacent to Fort Cavazos — which means military families in transit, contractors on assignment, and visitors to the post make up a substantial share of guests alongside travelers moving through Central Texas. The commercial spine of Harker Heights is within walking or short driving distance, so groceries, dining, and services are close. Demand runs year-round rather than seasonally, tracking post activity, graduations, and change-of-station cycles more than tourism. Reserve ahead for graduation weekends and holiday periods, and call about extended-stay rates if you are here on assignment.

from $35/night

Pine Gardens RV Park

12 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 3 Tent Sites

Pine Gardens RV Park occupies lakeside property in Tool, Texas, on the western shore of Cedar Creek Lake—a 35,000-acre reservoir in Henderson County that draws bass fishers, boaters, and summer campers from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in numbers that make it one of the most consistently busy recreational lakes in Texas. The park's position directly on the lake, with a boat ramp providing immediate water access, makes it a natural choice for visitors whose primary agenda involves time on the water rather than the amenity-heavy resort experience that characterizes some of the region's larger campground properties. Full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, water, and sewer accommodate RV campers, and the park's accommodation roster extends to cabins in multiple sizes, yurts sleeping up to four guests, and primitive tent sites for those who want the simplest possible camping experience on the lake. A swimming pool, playgrounds, coin laundry, showers, and a convenience store handle the daily practical needs. A meeting hall provides space for group gatherings and private events, and volleyball courts add a game option for afternoons when the lake is too windy for boating comfort. WiFi is available throughout the property. Cedar Creek Lake occupies a meandering reservoir basin in the cedar and post-oak landscape of Henderson and Kaufman counties, where the reservoir's irregular shoreline creates the coves, points, and submerged creek channels that largemouth bass use as structure and that experienced anglers learn to read as systematically as a topographic map. The lake is consistently rated among the top bass lakes in Texas and has produced numerous trophy catches—including some of the largest largemouth bass recorded in the state's modern fishing history—from the timber-studded flats and bluff-lined coves that characterize its less accessible arms. Crappie, white bass, and catfish fishing round out the species options across the full range of Cedar Creek's 320 miles of shoreline. The town of Tool sits in the southwestern Henderson County lake country alongside Mabank, Kemp, and the other small communities that developed as service centers for the Cedar Creek Lake recreation economy that emerged after the reservoir was completed in 1965. Athens, the Henderson County seat about 30 miles south, provides the full commercial infrastructure of a mid-size East Texas city alongside the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center—an aquarium and fishing complex operated by Texas Parks and Wildlife that is one of the better freshwater fish interpretation facilities in the South. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is approximately an hour northwest via US-175, making Cedar Creek Lake one of the most accessible major fishing lakes in the DFW regional radius. Pine Gardens RV Park operates year-round on Cedar Creek Lake, where bass fishing season peaks in spring (March through May) and fall (September and October) when water temperatures and spawning cycles drive maximum largemouth activity. Summer brings the boating and family camping demand that fills the lake's public ramps and private parks through Labor Day. The combination of a working boat ramp, multiple accommodation types, and lakeside proximity makes the park a practical choice for fishing-focused stays that benefit from immediate water access without driving to a launch facility each morning.

from $27/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

Castle View RV Park

5 RV Sites

Castle View RV Park in Kempner, Texas, offers full-hookup RV sites and cabins on a big-rig-friendly property behind a gated entrance, with a lake and pond, general store, dog park, and personal mailboxes. The Hill Country setting between Briggs and Kempner suits both short stays and longer residencies. Full-hookup RV sites serve guests with rigs, with cabins for those without. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and personal mailboxes handle the practical side, and a gated entrance controls access — the combination of security and mailbox service points clearly at the extended-stay market the park serves alongside travelers. A lake and pond sit on the property with boating available, and a playground and dog park fill the grounds. The amenity set is comfortable rather than elaborate, and the security and quiet are what guests consistently cite. Kempner sits in Lampasas County on US-190 west of Killeen, in the transition zone between the Balcones Escarpment's eastern edge and the inner Hill Country's cedar and live oak savanna. The rolling limestone landscape here is the Lampasas Cut Plains — the geological region shaped by the Lampasas River and its tributaries. The position gives practical access to the Killeen-Temple military and civilian corridor and the I-35 routes beyond, which keeps a steady base of longer-term guests alongside Hill Country travelers. The park operates through the Central Texas season, with spring wildflowers and fall delivering the most comfortable conditions and the heaviest visitor demand. Fort Cavazos activity drives steady year-round occupancy — call ahead for extended stays.

Shiloh on the Lake

71 RV Sites

Shiloh on the Lake in Malakoff, Texas, offers 71 full-hookup RV sites on Cedar Creek Lake with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet. Premium back-in, pull-in, and pull-through categories at both amperages join basic tiers, with boat docks, kayak rentals, a recreation center, and cabins. Seventy-one sites span basic back-in, basic pull-in, premium back-in, premium back-in 30-amp, premium pull-in, and premium pull-thru 30-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Every site gets a fire pit, picnic table, and BBQ pit, which is not a given at this price point. Cabins round out the lodging. A laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Boat docks and kayak rentals give direct lake access for boating, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and swimming. A recreation center, sports courts, volleyball, horseshoes, hiking, a playground, and dog park fill the grounds, with planned activities and productive birding along the shoreline. The property also operates as a wedding venue, which shapes its weekend character in the warmer months. Pets are welcome. Cedar Creek Lake covers 33,750 acres in Henderson County — one of the closest large reservoirs to the Dallas metro and a long-established weekend destination for East Texas fishing and boating. Summer lake season drives the heaviest demand from Dallas. Reserve well ahead for warm-weather weekends, and check the event calendar if you want a quiet stay.

from $55/night

Jellystone Park™ Austin North

78 RV Sites, 3 Cabins, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer, 2 Tiny Houses

Jellystone Park Austin North in Georgetown, Texas, offers 79 full-hookup RV sites and five cabin and tiny house units 30 miles north of Austin, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 75 feet. A covered deluxe back-in category and a Rockwood Mini tier join preferred pool-side and pull-through sites, with a lazy river, splash pad, and pool. Seventy-nine sites span back-in deluxe covered, back-in preferred pool, pull-thru preferred, pull-thru standard, and Rockwood Mini categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 75 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Two categories stand out: the covered deluxe sites put shade over the pad, which matters through a Central Texas summer, and the preferred pool sites put you next to the water. Five cabins and tiny houses round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, RV storage, personal mailboxes, recycling, and a pet washing station handle the practical side. Check-in is 3pm for cabins and 1pm for campsites, with checkout at 11am. A lazy river and splash pad anchor the summer, with an outdoor pool alongside. A fitness center, jumping pillow, gem mining, billiards, shuffleboard, pickleball, basketball, gaga ball, horseshoes, corn hole, golf cart rentals, a playground, community fire pit, and dog park fill the grounds. Lake Georgetown, Inner Space Cavern, and the historic courthouse square are all close. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $55/night