South Llano River State Park - Preview

We are quickly approaching a weekend get away to South Llano River State Park located 116 miles North West of San Antonio and 144 miles West of Austin. This is a park I have never been to so in the "Preview" I am going to go over a few of things this park has to offer.

Activities:

"Activities include camping, picnicking, canoeing, tubing, swimming, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, bird watching and nature study.

The park offers approximately 25 miles of hiking/biking trails, 58 campsites with water and electricity, 6 walk-in tent sites, and five hike-in primitive campsites. The park is open year round. Turkey Roost area of the park is also open year round with restricted hours from October 1 - March 31  (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)." source

That's quite a lot to do at what appears to be a relatively small park located in the Texas Hill Country and we are looking forward to swimming, fishing, biking and tubing.

Camp Sites:

The park offers 58 water/electric sites and only 6 walk-in sites, needles to say we will be in the PUP anything but roughing it. Lets use Google maps to take a look at the camping loop:

The single camping loop at South Llano River SP

And of course the official park map can be found here. Now lets break down what we see from both maps.

• One restroom facility centrally located, this means that if you want to be close the showers and toilets  you need to pick a specific spot.
• Nearest swimming area is a half mile away, this means that you A) walk half a mile, B) hop in the car, or C) Bike ride to the swimming hole.
• No park store (or small store located in the headquarters), its a smaller park so no store for emergency needs, however, Junction is only 4.3 miles away so no real worries there.
• It looks like some of the sites have ample shade over the vehicle pads while others do not and as we all know pups are not very insulated. On the other hand it looks like all the sights have some shade somewhere so a tent camper will probably fined shade somewhere in their site.
• Looks like there is just under a mile of tubing between the put in and take out spots, go to far and you could float out of the park...
• Seems there is a web of trails for hiking and bike riding, this could be fun to explore just need to remember, spare tire and water.

Well that's about it, 7 days till we take off to a new campground for us. Expect a full review before the end of the month and remember to click on the reviews link at the top of the page to see other parks we have visited.