Lake Colorado City State Park Campground

The state park has several camp sites, cabins also. Sites range from water only to water and electric. The campground was quiet and isolated, it may not feel this way in the summer of it gets crowded. Many of the camp pads have an awning and picnic table, several are lakefront (although the lake is very low), all are flat. There is a restroom with showers, fishing pier, and playground. Trail access is easy and the short trail is very well marked and worth the trek. The roadrunner loop is poorly marked and clearly not well maintained or used.

The norm

This place was so beautiful! Wildflowers everywhere, birds, ground squirrels. Very well maintained and clean. We rented 2 cabins and they were very well kept. Lots of trails to walk going down to the water. A nice swimming beach. Everything was just perfect! Amazing weekend getaway!

Beautiful!

We're down there a couple of years ago and really had a relaxing  time. We enjoyed the fishing and sitting around the campfire at night. Had the whole family there and had a great time.

Great spot for families

We stayed overnight in June of 2020. The campground was pretty full but the spots in the loop we stayed in were far enough apart. We did have a few people ask to go through our campsite to access the area behind us to get to the trail. The bathrooms have a shower and toilets and were so clean! The campsites all had a tree (but some of them were very small!), concrete pad with awning and picnic table and water spigots!

They were under a fire-ban so we used our camp stove. 

Overnight Family Camping

Stayed in the RV site, and everything was as expected. Grounds were kept, clean, and over all park was pretty quite in the evening. My only complaint was that there was a burn ban that we didn't find out about till we arrived. I booked online, via the state parks website. Other parks in the region had a notice advising about the burn ban. This one did not, so I assumed camp fires were permitted. We cooked hot dogs and burgers on a propane stove that night. Total bummer. Otherwise, the camping was great. 

Check for burn ban before you book!

We just stayed one day in this place, pretty nice, we could see the lake from the window of our RV, had a nice little trail behind our campsite, but we could not explore like we like . But I would go back there again for a few days if I have a chance.
June 23 to 24.   2020

Short stay

This state park was clean and well maintained, and nothing wrong with it. But for me personally, it’s more of a “stopping off/overnight” park rather than a destination. We stayed overnight on our way from DFW to Davis Mountains State Park. The sites were spacious, but not too shaded, so be sure to bring a pop-up canopy if there during hot months. 

Good for overnight stop

We used this for a one night pass thru but I would have loved to spent the week. Gorgeous views, and a perk, perfect weather. The night sky is amazing, facilities clean and well kept. Restrooms and showers were in good repair. Electric and water hook-ups with a dump station at exit. Site was a level back-in spot with covered picnic table. Not a lot of shade available at our site but some had more. I would most definitely stay here again to enjoy the state park.

Breathtaking Views

About 6 miles out of town.  Pre checked made check in a breeze. Speaking of, 96 degrees with very little breeze.   The loop we are on is called Misquote Loop.  The only trees are low misquote which translates to minimal shade.  This was a stop over rather than go to park for us.  With the high temp I doubt we will be trying any of the activities here. 

Near but not on the lake

nice but very little shade and the gnats/bugs were so bad we had to stay indoors. reasonably private spots and good facilities. 

nice but

The park is nice and clean. Very quiet, it is November and cold for Texas. 50amp service and water only. 
WiFi is present but currently no internet. Spots aren’t quite level but close enough for an easy setup. Fire rings, and covered picnic tables at each spot. Plenty of space for activities for kids/dogs.

Clean and quiet 

I hate to dog on a Texas state park, but this one was rough. In all honesty, we left and didn’t even stay a night once we got to our site. When we were driving in we noticed it was pretty flat and not a lot of trees, which is normal for this part of Texas. When we got to the check-in station there was a sign that said there was toxic sludge in the lake and to not go near it, and when we got to our site it was pretty much an open field covered in stickers with a metal swing set in the middle. My 9 and 7 year old voted to just muscle through another 4 hours of driving and just go home instead of staying the night there. Maybe it was just bad timing, but I’m not sure I’ll go back. 

Nope nope nope

This was a nice campground.  The shower and bathrooms were clean. I had an owl as a camp companion all night. The campground was quite and clean.

Nice Campground on The Lake

On the good side, they have helpful , friendly office staff. And, as a bonus, FedEx and UPS deliver here 

The campsites range from ‘ok’ to ‘needs help’. A tired park that could use some revamping. We enjoyed the different landscape. Dump station is not really usable for honey cart - surrounded by concrete lip/edging

A different/rugged kind of landscape. Really peaceful. Also somewhat windy - not sure if this is seasonal or not. 

Starlink worked fine. T-Mobile, Verizon, Visible and Cricket were light on signal strength.  Both Verizon and T-Mobile are 5G and download was ok but upload sucked 

Loop road was wide enough for 1 vehicle, but was not a one-way road - cos of drive-thru sites. Plenty of room to pull off, so all good