Visiting the State Parks

On Saturday, we slept in late, and were getting ready to drive around the area when we had a knock on the door. It was a park ranger who had a message that we could stay Saturday night if we wanted. The Lake Mineral Wells campground is not all that impressive. For a park with a lake, most of the campsites aren’t even in sight of water, much less ‘on the water’. We had already discussed driving the car over to the Possum Kingdom State Park, and see what that campground looked like. If good, we would secure a site, and come back for the motorhome.

We also had looked at the map and noticed that the town of Perrin was only about 20 miles from here. That is the location of the National Rally for the Texas Boomers next summer, so we decided we would drive past is on the way to Possum Kingdom. Perrin is a small town, and the campground is a ways out of town. It was starting to look like it was ‘in the middle of nowhere'! It turned out to be a nice contry campground, and the signs at the entrance made it clear that it was not in the middle of nowhere!!!

Here are some pictures:

We got to Possum Kingdom State Park about 1:00pm. It turned out to be a longer drive than we expected, especially after going to Perrin. The campground was very nice, but the better sites were taken. After talking to the park personnel, we found out that they would have a lot of sites on the water beginning on Sunday night…………. When all the working people left!!! We called Lake Mineral Wells, and secured out site for tonight, and decided that maybe we would come back to Possum Kingdom for Sunday night.

Since we were already a ways west, in the car, and had time, we decided to go ahead and visit the third park on our agenda………. Fort Griffin. It has the remains of an old fort from the 1800’s, and is the home pasture for the Official State of Texas Longhorn Herd. We walked the fort remains for a while, then drove over to the campground area where the longhorns are kept. We got to see a group of about 10 longhorn calves. The campground we very remote, but well kept with good facilities. There were only two rigs there, and one belonged to the host!!

Here are the pictures:

I am publishing this at a Texas Rest Area on I-20 west of Fort Worth. We have changed our plans, and are going to skip the Dallas RV show (we figure the same dealers and rigs), and are heading east to see that part of the country and to visit Tiffin earlier.