GuideSam Houston Jones State Park — Sam Houston Jones State Park District II
Excellent park!
We originally had two nights booked at this campground, but after one night and spending a day on the trails here, we booked two more nights for a different campground that was available. We originally were insight 24, and then we moved over to site number six. Both of these two have no one beside them on one side, so it gave us some privacy and made us feel like we were really camping. Lol. It appears that a lot of people use this campsite as a stop over as they are traveling, because in the evenings it would fill up and then early the next morning lots of people would be gone. There are very spacious sites here, there were lots of very large bus RVs and fifth wheels. We have a small travel trailer, so we had loads of space around our campsite. Each paved and pretty level campsite has a nice paved picnic area with a picnic table and a fire ring. All of the hook ups were very well maintained. The dumpster is located near the bathhouse, which looks to be fairly new. There’s also a small laundromat here that I saw people going in and out of. Everything is very well-maintained throughout this park. The roads have obviously been repaved over the last few years, and there are nice cabins to be rented as well as spaces for tent campers. We saw a variety of birds while riding our bikes through the trails and around the swamp/marsh area. We also saw turtles and a few alligators. I record my GPS tracks when riding bicycles and we rode over 40 miles while there. The trails are a mixture of gravel and dirt, and there are shared roads. There were some more difficult trails, that we definitely would not ride again, but we saw other people that were very easily getting around on the trails. There are a lot of what seem to be local people who use this park for exercise, walking, running, bicycling, even people on scooters, people out, enjoying the solitude of sitting by the river, it’s really nice to see. The staff members that we encountered at the gate were very efficient and friendly. We ventured off site to a visit to a rum distillery for a tour one day and that was fun. There’s a nice dollar store nearby for any necessary items.
