Brazos Bend State Park

In spring East Texas is emerald green and adrift in wildflowers, and this beautiful, well-kept park is a photographers paradise. Off the beaten path in farm and cattle country, the RV spaces are level and well-spaced for privacy. Lots of easy hiking trails that take you by beautiful lakes where you can see deer, alligators, water birds, turtles, and more. Peaceful and quiet. Firewood available. Nice showers. Playgrounds for children. Informative nature center open daily where you can pet baby alligators, and an observatory that has night-time programs on Saturdays.

We were there for 2 mid-week days in early April and the park was only 40 percent full. Wish we could have stayed longer. The one drawback was poor cellphone coverage under the trees.

I think this is my favorite of the Texas state parks we stayed at. We were camping during the week, so it was pretty empty/quiet. There are great walking/hiking trails (although some were still closed due to hurricane damage). You could see a mud line on all the trees. Everything must have been under water. There are alligator, vultures, deer, birds. The bathrooms were OK and they had a laundry room.

I made a youtube video of park at: https://youtu.be/1ziNzvc1FJ0

Cell phone data download/uploads (Mbps) using Speedtest:
Verizon 8.48/0.26
T-Mobile 5.17/1.17
ATT 4.32/2.20

With Weboost cell booster:
Verizon 15.0/1.0
T-Mobile 4.94/4.59
ATT 8.60/3.26

This was our first time camping at Brazos Bend State Park and we were surprised at how much we loved it. It's a well maintained 4,900 acre park located approximately 25 miles southwest of Houston. There are two loops for camping with sites that are wide, deep and level. There is also a loop with cabins and a primitive tent camping area. These loops have clean restrooms with showers and one of them also has a small laundry mat. There are over 30 miles of hiking/biking trails. These trails traverse three different ecosystems; coastal prairie, bottomland forest, and wetlands (which include lakes and marshlands). This park is excellent for bird watching, but it's most famous resident is the American alligator! The park also has a nature center where you can pet a baby alligator, and a rat snake, plus observe several poisonous snakes that live in the park. Another highlight is the George Observatory! It's a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural History with three domed telescopes that is opened every Saturday evening.

Pros
Clean and well maintained
Deep and wide camping sites
Excellent hiking/biking trails
Excellent birding
Alligators
Observatory
Nature Center

Cons
Mosquitos
Mediocre cell phone reception

It rained quite a bit whilst we were here and of course it being August the heat and humidity are probably too high for most people although rain helped keep it manageable. That said we pretty much had the whole park to ourselves until Friday night, apart from the camp host and a few volunteers. Quite a bit of wildlife to see during our many in park cycle trips. Lots of trees everywhere and the whole place is well kept and clean including the close by toilet and shower facility. We had a great time in his pretty much deserted park 40 or so miles from Houston's huge population.