Length of stay: 2 weeks
Location: Lakehills, TX
We continued to make our way around Texas and ventured to a small town about 45 minutes outside of San Antonio. The park itself is nicely sized. It is a little tricky to get there, but our GPS didn't fail us and took us down the correct path that was less through the "rural residential" area that had plagued a few others.
There is a small grocery store in town, as well as a Dollar General. There was one restaurant/bar that we dined at in town, but not much else around Lakehills. About 30 minutes down the road is a neat little town, Bandera. We'd been to Bandera before over the years. There is a nicely sized grocery store there with several great restaurant choices as well. As I stated before, San Antonio itself is about 45 minutes away by car.
We checked in just outside the entrance gate in the Welcome Center, We were told where the 50 Amp FHU sites were on the map and set loose. We found a nice shady spot nearby some of the cabins and settled in. The cell signal wasn't great, so we hoisted the booster pole, which improved things as predicted. We were told they were putting in high speed internet, but we couldn't pick up on that signal from our site. There weren't too many other people in our little section of the park, yet there were several people who were annuals around the park itself.
We rode our bikes down to the lake, which was up but not flooded at all. The pool and hot tub were located just inside the front of the park and appeared to be open (I'd witnessed people swimming on a couple of different occasions). Very nearby where the pool area was the laundry facilities. It was a relatively small laundry room, but had 5 or so washers and the equal amount of dryers. There were a couple of tables set up in the center of the room that provided ample space for folding needs. The putt putt course was a nice 18 hole field that didn't have too much natural debris on it. The activity center was located just up the road from where we were staying and they had weekly pot lucks there with a handful of the annuals from the park. The one we attended had about a dozen or so people in attendance.
One thing that you CANNOT miss while driving or biking through this park is the presence of wildlife, deer in particular. This is a sanctuary for them, as there is no hunting allowed on the property, and word has definitely gotten out among their populace. They sell gallon baggies of feed corn in the Welcome Center for the park, but we opted to just go to town and at the local Ace Hardware store we got a 50-lb bag for less than $7.00. We would just take a Tupperware bowl and use it as a scoop to get a decent amount and pour it onto the picnic table on our site, and then the feast was on! There would easily be 20 deer at our site in seconds (fawn, doe, and buck) having some chow! We even have a video where Kyle is feeding them from his hands. Deer were not the only wildlife around the park, though easily the lease afraid of people. There were also wild turkeys, plenty of squirrels, and a few foxes flitting about the campgrounds.
We drove into San Antonio one weekend and took the bikes while we did a biking tour of a few of the missions in the area. We stayed to the lower missions and didn't make it to the Alamo or Riverwalk area, but it was still an enjoyable day overall. We got to go out to my aunt's property and visit with her and tour about with her one evening, which is always enjoyable!
Overall, I think if we had an activity in the area we were wanting to attend, we'd go back to this park. This just wasn't one of our all-time favorites really. The first few days you are enamored by the deer everywhere, but for us this faded over time.
Below are a few more pictures from the park. Happy adventuring friends! Hope to see you on the road!
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