Length of stay: 2 weeks
Location: Gordonville, TX
We made our way from Lake Whitney North a bit to Lake Texoma Thousand Trails. There is a Walmart about 30 minutes away, near the Oklahoma/Texas border. About 20 minutes away is a small Brookshire Brothers grocery store. There weren't a lot of choices for dining out in the immediate area, but we DID find a great place for breakfast and lunch located inside a gas station Lucky Truck Stop & Cafe. All the food here was fresh and homemade, reasonably priced and super yummy! We had breakfast there one day, and lunch on our way out.
When we first arrived at this location we checked in at the Welcome Center, as we'd done at many previous locations. They informed us that we could go to a parking lot inside the park to unhook the toad (the car we tow behind the motorhome). We proceeded to do so and before we'd begun the process to unhook, we were greeted by a friendly fellow on a golf cart that asked if we needed any help. He introduced himself as Doug Smith (you'll recognize the name from a previous post). He pointed us towards the optimal sites for shade, cell signal, and overall environment. The park provided WiFi was less than workable, so we just decided to hoist our cell signal booster antenna and rely on that for our internet needs.
The park operates on an interesting concept, it is first come first serve, as many Thousand Trails parks are in our experience. If you need a 50 Amp site, you find your site and then a representative of the park comes out and unlocks the power pole for you to hook up. Again, Doug helped us out and we were all set and ready to go in a FHU site. We were in a little cove of an area with about a dozen sites or so in a semi-circle off to one side of the park. There were several annual siteholders and a few transients around us. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming to their new temporary neighbors. The site itself was well shaded, mostly level, and roomy enough that we could put the slide out and our awning out without feeling like we were encroaching on our neighbors. Backing into the site wasn't too difficult, either.
The park had a weekend breakfast cafe open for part of the time we were there that we enjoyed quite a bit. Part of our time here they had some pretty major power issues and a large section of the park was shut down from power. We managed it alright and didn't need to shorten our stay. We were invited to play cards (we learned Hand and Foot from Doug and his lovely wife, Lily) multiple nights. We ended up making quick friends with Doug and even meeting a few other couples during our visit here.
They have an adult pool/hot tub as well as a family pool here. Due to the power concerns, the pools were shut down during part of our stay. If it had not been for this fact, I don't know if we would have ventured down to the beautiful lake that was accessible from one end of the park. The lake turned out to be very refreshing and a lovely break from the summer Texas heat. An evening activity we really enjoyed was going to the adult lounge and sitting on the rockers while taking in the sites and sounds around us.
Overall, I'd come back to this park if we were in the area again. Even with the power issues the park had, we were always treated with the upmost respect and helped at every turn by the staff working here. Below are some pictures we took during our stay here.
Happy adventuring friends!! Hope to see you on the road!
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