South Sulphur Campground

Texas SP don’t allow on-line reservations within 24 hours of your planned stay. However, on site rangers at the park’s hq are very accommodating and helpful in locating the perfect last minute site. Ours was #68 (back in with w/e) with no neighbors to our right and a short stroll to the lake shore. This is a huge SP with segregated units for tents, 50 and 30 amp units. Concrete pads are level; sites are spotless and cell service allows for streaming. This is a do again. FYI: an annual $70 Texas park pass allows for unlimited visits to any park in the lone star state.

We stayed 3 nights in November and were 1 of only a handful of people there on Mon-Thu. Deer Haven campground lived up to it’s name. We probably saw 10+ deer everyday. Sites were large and clean. Bathrooms were also very clean. Overall the area almost seemed very new. Nothing seemed worn out or run down. Good ATT cell service. We were able to stream video to our phones with no issues. Would stay again.

This is another well managed Texas state park with big sites, good power and water, fairly level concrete site pads, and friendly helpful rangers and hosts. Site 13 is right on the lake. We could launch our kayaks from our site and then just leave them by the water until we wanted to use them again. Lots of nice hiking trails of varying difficulty. We stayed here 10 days and enjoyed the peace and quiet - even on the weekends when it was full. Almost no one here during the week in November. Verizon coverage is spotty, but good at the campsite.

I was a little concerned at first on Thursday when I set up my trailer that the next spot over was right on top of mine. The fire rings were only 10 feet apart. My view was mainly the neighboring picnic table. Soon later a park host came around to flip the adjoining site flag to "reserved". He said that unless both sites are reserved by the same party, the other site was marked as taken. So I had 2 sites to myself all weekend. It rained most of Thursday and Friday so the park was not very full. If they had been packed, I may have had no privacy at all.
I saw several deer, but they quickly pranced away.

S Sulphur Campground is like many of our TX State Park camping experiences - the sites are fairly large, spread out, and offer natural views. In hindsight, we would have done better with a back-in site, but #71 was relatively level, if only a little too acute of a loop for a 40' fifth wheel. All of the sites in our area were clean concrete pads and our water/electric worked well. The campground is large, had well maintained roads, and offers a number of trails and places to fish while enjoying the beautiful scenery of the lake and woods. While we were only passing through the area, I could easily see spending a couple of weeks camped here.
Our T-Mobile service worked fairly well with the booster, not so much without.

Zipped out for a quick weekend stay. Only 1.5 hours from Dallas means we worked all day and were here before dark. Had an electric/sewer hookup in a big spacious campsite. We were on the side of the road away from the lake. Lakeside spots didn’t really have a lake view so didn’t miss out on anything.

Hiked the really short hiking trail on the north end of the park. Mostly unremarkable. Rentable kayaks and canoes make for an entertaining jaunt on the water. Not much else to see or do, but sometimes that’s the point, right?

To be honest I had visited this park about 15 years ago, but we stayed in a cabin with two small children and I really dont remember the trip at all. This time we were in our motor home and I spent time exploring the park and I was really surprised by what I found! This park is huge! three separate areas for bank fishing, two boat ramps, cabins, screen shelters and tons of great campsite for tents and RVs.
I have posted a 20 min video of our visit under the blogs tab.