Dripping Springs is a great campground for those looking to hike, mountain bike and take your dogs with you. Each site has a fire ring and table - toilets were clean (pit toilets) and the grounds maintained.

The campground itself has rather small spaces that are relatively close together but that doesn't really matter that much to me. It was more about the ability to bring dogs, take them on trails to get their exercise and find some other activities close by.

Right off of the campground is an insane hiking loop. While we were staying all these military looking people with gnarly backpacks (in other words - people who looked like they knew how to be outdoors and survive) kept running past our camp site. I finally figured out that the short walk I had done out and back was just a short bit of a 26 mile (if memory serves correctly) loop that these guys were using for training. Best part - the trail is completely dog friendly! It is rather surprising how many campgrounds that are dog friendly do not allow dogs on the trails…whats the point then? I digress…

Just down the road is the Vail RV park which is a crazy place to go wander around - I know I know, its not technically part of dripping springs BUT the mountain biking there is incredible and its just down the road! I say it gets to be included because if you're looking for a place to camp where you can go mountain biking, gravel riding, even motor biking (I think I even saw some ATV's) then you would still stay in the smaller Dripping Springs rather than head to the giant theme park style Vail RV park (especially if you're tent camping).

All in all the only reason I gave the campground 4/5 stars would be that I literally saw a site that I'm not even sure a tent could set up on…it was that small.