South Sulphur Campground

Arrival - Couldn't have been easier with online check reservation and check-in.

Tips - Pick your site wisely based on your length and site location. Taking the TX-19 in from College Station was a really nice drive. Pay attention to the speed limit signs, roads are very narrow and winding.

Favorites - Beautiful park, lush and green full of oak and pine. Camp sites are clean, spacious, and well spaced to next neighbor. Dark sky location. Enough of a clearing above the 5ver for sufficient StarLink visibility (50 - 75Mbps down).

Negatives - Site 006 is painfully un-level, the nose of the 5ver is 2" off the ground, and difficult to get into for a 42' 5ver located on a curve; there were plenty of other sites open that would have been easier to navigate into.

This was a great place to kick back and relax. Sites we very private and quiet. Beautiful trees inbetween each site and lots of deer and armadillos to see in the morning . We have a larger rig and had trouble getting into a pull through spot which are quite curved but this was easily fixed . Back in sites were very long flat and straight.
Park staff was very nice as well. Bathrooms were very clean and had nice showers.
Roads into this park are country roads and narrow at times but doable.
Cell service was spotty but our TMobile hotspot worked very well here.

I have no idea why/how this place has so many flies. There are thousands and it looks like the ground is moving as they are everywhere. We hung fly traps and they will fill up in minutes but there aren’t enough traps in the world to curb the number of flies they had. It was a rough 3 days of camping.

I would also avoid 15. It’s a pull through but has a steep drop off and I couldn’t angle my truck and 5th wheel to get on the site. Ended up going across the street as we booked multiple sites.

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.