South Llano River RV Park & Resort

We had friends workamping here and they extended the family stay free rate to us :) But even if we had to pay, we would highly recommend this place! It's in the small town of Junction, TX, easily accessible by I10. There is a big park adjacent to the campground, great for picnics, runs, bike rides, playground. The rv park is on the banks of the river. We saw lots of deer. It was very quiet. You can walk across the bridge to get into town where you'll find restaurants, a bar, post office & grocery store. The RV park has furnished cabins for rent (very nice!), spacious RV spots, shade trees, and an awesome bath house with private shower rooms. And very friendly employees! We probably would've never stopped here normally, but we're so glad our friends invited us. We'll definitely be back!

I was pon my way to the South Llano River State Park but happen to find this place first and glad I stayed here instead. It is much closer to town than the State Park and has direct access to the river unlike the State Park. It is a little cheaper than the State Park daily rate as well. There is good wi-fi, water and electric as well as really nice bathrooms that contain a toilet and shower so not the usual state park vault toilets. It is also across the street from a city park on the river so you have plenty of access to the river. Well-maintained property. Ice & snacks in office but location is close to all stores. I rented a tube for the day and launched it right on the river; the State Park campsites are not on the river so you have to walk more distance. I tent camp a lot and find that sometimes the RV parks offer much more than state parks so worth the extra few dollars and there seems to be less noise than at the state parks as well.

The South Llano River park is owned by the same person that owns the North Llano River Park. It is on the river, has several cabins, and is developing a lot of sites that look like they are on a sand bar. The long pull thru's mentioned in the previous review, they are going down hill and sideways, basically not usable. We moved to a smaller pull thru and it was Ok for a overnight stay. The cable system is a jurry rigged system off the Direct and Dish networks and picture quality is marginal at best. Verizon is non existent, ATT/TMobile is usable. The work campers are great folks and enjoy what they are doing. The "normal" price is $40 but offer a 15% military discount. The rate for the park should be no more than $20 a night.

We tend to be a tad on the cheap, scratch that, thrifty side :) So it is rare that we spend over $25 a night on a site, so $34.50 (which reflects a 15% discount) a night is a HUGE spend for us, so I expect a LOT and thus am extra tough on any park where I pay this much.

The only reason we stayed here is we are on route somewhere else with a deadline, and we were making good time and didn't want to stop, so we pressed on another hour from where we planned to stop.....and that put us in Junction, TX.

The RV park is only about 5 - 10 mins off of I-10 and it is pretty easy to get there. It is billed as new park, but there are some nice mature trees there, so I am not sure what the property was previously but they did a good job of working around those.

Currently there are not many sites, which are a short walk to the river, but they are still building out and from the looks of all the power boxes they are putting in A LOT of sites that go down pretty close to the river.

Of the sites they currently have there are a few back-ins, which seem to be off to the side and in a more private area of the park, BUT they are right under a large bridge, so you do get traffic noise from the bridge above.

For the pull through sites they have some of the longest pull through sites I have ever seen. I think you could park to 45 foot fifth wheels with room to spare in some of these spaces.

Most of the pull throughs are a little closer together then I would prefer, and they only provide a small table, no grill or anything like that.

They do offer tent camping and have cabins, and during our stay there were a lot of weekenders that were partying it up at the tents and cabins. Not loud enough to be disruptive but definitely louder and more active then you get at a lot of RV parks. Seems like more of a destination area then a passing through park.

I didn't check out the laundry or restrooms. They have a dog park which at first looks okay size, though a tad small, but then upon closer examination you see they have split it in half. It is nice that it allows you to not intermingle your dog if you don't want to, but makes the dog play areas way to small in my opinion, especially if you have a big or active dog. I wish they either would have not split it in half or made it almost double in size (they have the room for that).

I think the best part is that on the other side of the bridge is a massive county park, and there is a trail that connects this RV park to that county park. The county park was an awesome place to play with the puppy, has great river access, a boat launch, disc golf, basketball and many picnic areas.

Verizon is virtually useless in this entire area, on the old 1x network.

AT&T is useable. I did the same with and without the booster and averaged:
4.90Mbps down and 0.92Mbps up.

I almost never use wifi but used the parks wifi and it was useable for surfing, though not for video. I didn't do a speed test on it though.